Port the Best Vim Commands to your Fav Text Editor

In this in depth article and 40-minute screencast, I’ll show you how to take many of the much-loved Vim commands and shortcuts, and port them over to any editor, by using macros.

I’m sure everyone can agree that the power and control afforded by a program like Vim is incredible. However, understandably, many aren’t comfortable with the various modes, and the command-line feel of it. It’s hard to compete, visually speaking, with a beautiful UI, like Espresso. But, what if we could take some of the more popular Vim commands/shortcuts, and manually port them over for use in your favorite code editor? Wouldn’t that be the best of both worlds?

While this article focuses particularly on the popular Espresso editor, for the Mac platform, these techniques can be used for any editor of your choice.

If you’re a visual learner, there’s also a video version of this tutorial, which was recorded in HD, at 1280×720 with a nice condenser microphone.