Useful VIM Utilities

Useful VIM Utilities

Utilities that can assist you during editing I think all are free or shareware or have free versions.

• VIM Worlds most popular Programmers Editor



• Kleptomania ScreenScraper
  
  OCRs Text from other Applications, useful when ordinary copying and pasting is not possible, and also where you only want to copy a particular column.



• Shortkeys Windows Text Replacement Utility
  
  Use ShortKeys for web-form filling, spitting out commonly used sentences, lines of code,html etc eg I type \xxa and it expands to my address. Works a bit like VIM's abbreviations but use anywhere. I also use it to login to various websites that I'm a member of



• M8 Multi-clipboard
  
  Remembers the last 25 clips you copied
  Recover any of last 25 things (clips) that you've copied and pasted. Click on M8 Clipboard in your system tray and a 5*5 grid appears with the start of each clip appearing in a pigeon hole. Simple, easy to use. intutitive , just marvellous



• CygWin Linux Tools on Windows
  
  Have the best of both worlds *nix utilities on Windows without partitions, installable and uninstallable like any other Windows Application.
  
  With Cygwin you grep,sed,awk,perl,find,tex and many dozens of other *nix tools



• external use vim as external editor
  
  for many other applications, eg outlook or when writing your blog onscreen
  
  (i often find it necessary to click retry)
  
  
  
  
• WAMP Windows-Apache-MySQL-PHP
  
  Painless single install of Apache-MySQL-PHP-PHPMYADMIN for Windows users!!
  
  Amazing
  
  
  
  
• Open Office
  
  Better than MS Office and free!