How to use vim as a note taking platform

Learn to emulate the Cornell Note Taking Method with vim; and a few other tips along the way.

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Howto & Style

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• vim
• tutorial
• lifehack

[recognizetrill]

why WINDOWS?????????? AAAH

[thomdigs]

Running vim under windows provides all the exact same functionality as running vim on Linux, BSD, or another operating system. You must not know anything about vim, windows, or unix.

source:

I am running vim on windows as my main editor, I run vim on linux/unix as my main editor. I have found no differences between the functionality of vim on either platform.

[samarpanda2010]

Nice tutorial, volume was a bit low though. Learnt control+w, control+], control+t. Thanks and keep adding new stuffs.

[MomoZibang]

@thomdigs Actually there are some. Especially if you use external cmd. Eg: r!pwd :!sort and such.. As you know, Unix/Linux system support lots of stand-alone utility...

[smellymyfingers]

Cream

[CabbageNappa]

@recognizetrill It's a video about how to use vim for note taking, not a propaganda piece about the glories of [INSERT OS HERE] or the inferiority of [INSERT OS HERE]

[Sonolin]

@rothkoaintdead not excessive at all :).. it's really easy to install both of these, there's also a tool I've used in the past something called "All Linux" or something that emulates gnome like wine does in linux I believe. Believe me, I've tried linux, and LOVE it a lot more than winblows, but the fact is I need my games, office, photoshop, etc. Even with wine some of the software does not run as well, so I find myself in windows more than anything.

[rothkoaintdead]

@Sonolin seriously? you'd run mingw/cygwin on MSWin7 just to be able to use vim? i'm not against you - different strokes for different folks - but it seems excessive (to me at least).

[rothkoaintdead]

@thomdigs WHOA! on vim4 *nix, we pass commds to the shell and output is piped back to us in vim.

I have used 'coreutils' for DOS that included a shell.

now, i'd like to believe that i could run vim from within that shell and have unix-like functionality, but it might be a pain to set up and it might be error-prone.

maybe wrong on this - but i'm not aware that shell interaction or toolchain is commonly available in vim4win.

[constructivist6]

@piqantique powershell provides much of the functionality of bash and other posix shells. it's got predefined aliases for the most popular commands like ls and whatnot. it can run powerful scripts written in the powershell syntax. i'm not sure if it integrates with vim or other ported utilities but it sure kicks the butt of cmd.exe!

[thekaleb]

NB @ 2:30, narrator says ^L, but he should have said ^WL. Good tutorial.

[dennisonicc]

@thomdigs the comment is 'why windows' not 'wow'