Andrei Zmievski: "VIM for (PHP) Programmers" slides and resources

16-February-2007

"VIM for (PHP) Programmers" slides and resources

By popular demand, I have uploaded the slides and the VIM script files from my VIM for (PHP) Programmers talk in Vancouver. You can find them on the Talks page.

This was the inaugural presentation of the talk, so I beg forgiveness for the rough edges and any inadvertent mistakes (of which there should be none, I hope).

It was nice to see that the talk was well attended and received. With any luck, it might become a semi-regular one on the PHP conference circuit. Happy VIM'ing.

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Comments

This is great! Thanks for this, I was beginning to think the emacs folks were going to win the PHP battle :)

Posted by Anant Narayanan on February 16, 2007 01:06 AM

Awesome summary. Although i've been using vim for ages, there's still lots of nice features to pick up

Posted by martin on February 16, 2007 03:12 AM

Good stuff! I've used vim for six years and there are still new things to learn. Thanks for putting this up.

Posted by Brian on February 16, 2007 05:39 AM

This is the most comprehensive documentation that can found in a single place on php editing with vim. Great work. I currently use ZDE to write my apps but I grew up in a vim world. When some of these features became available for vim, I decided to try it out. Here's a great screenshot: http://larrykagan.com/images/vimdebug.png

Anyway, the debugging mechanism in my case was extremely unreliable and quirky. How was your experience with it? Or anyone else's experience for that matter.

Thanks,

Larry Kagan

Posted by Larry Kagan on February 16, 2007 05:53 AM

Larry,

The debugger does seem pretty raw, but it's still a good illustration of what is possible in VIM. I wish someone would take on the project of improving and maintaining it.

Posted by Andrei on February 16, 2007 10:33 AM

Wonderful resource! I think jEdit might have a run for its money...

Posted by Matt Darby on February 24, 2007 09:20 AM

Very nice material. It's got me excited about using vim for my next PHP project. I've always used vim for system administration but never for any coding.

Posted by Glen on April 3, 2007 11:20 PM

ctrl+x+u does'nt show me class methods it shows a heap of methods from classes founded in ctags. Omni completion is not working as it should. It should work like eclipse PDT. I believe this will be fixed in the future.

Posted by Vasilii on April 1, 2008 07:16 AM

	Andrei Zmievski