A vimbit is a snippet of a .vimrc. Share your coolest trick, mapping, setting, or custom command for the Vim editor. Find new bits and vote up the best ones.
:set awesome=on
2/26/12
by KKuchta
Vimbits is an upvote-downvote site for vimrc tricks.
After my first few months in the vimverse, I got a little disheartened that the best way to find new ideas for vim customization seemed to be by crawling through other developers' vimrcs. Don't get me wrong- that was useful and educational, but I've found that by now, 99% of any given vimrc I've already seen.
Vimbits aims to break these down into discrete units that can be tagged, categorized, voted on and ranked. A newish vim user should be able to skim the 'Top' list and populate their vimrc from there.
Some ideas for after launch:
syntax on
or
set hidden
).
These can be enshrined somewhere visible, but removed from the main 'top' page.