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How My VIM Setup and Open Source Code Ended Up In an AAA Video Game

Antonin J. (they/them) on June 17, 2019

I'm going to take you on a wild story that I tell everyone because I find it so exciting. It's been taking up the top spot as a pinned tweet on my ...
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Rubin • Edited

Can you provide me with your vim configs?

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Lamprinos Chatziioannou • Edited

Even though I am not an expert from the screenshot it is clear that he uses NERD-tree, vim-airline, and a dark theme, possibly solarized. You can easily install them with the plugin manager of your choice. Now regarding the vimrc file, the only thing I notice is that he has the numbers option enabled. (Finally, if you're new and wondering how can one have so many different files open, he utilises banners(!EDIT: buffers😂😢) Hope I helped.

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Antonin J. (they/them) • Edited

Wait what are banners?

But yeah you got it all right otherwise! 🙂

It's not solarized but I don't remember what I was using back then, might be Gruvbox

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Lamprinos Chatziioannou • Edited

Oh sorry 😂😂... I feel really bad about it now. I wanted to say buffers😢. Impressive article BTW. Thanks for sharing😉

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Antonin J. (they/them)

thanks! :)

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Antonin J. (they/them) • Edited

Sure! here you go

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Joyce Babu

The link is broken due to an extra space character in the url

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Antonin J. (they/them)

my bad! Fixed it! :)

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Mihail Malo

Can you link to the Reddit thread please?

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Antonin J. (they/them) • Edited

honestly, some of the comments were really upsetting so IIRC I deleted it :(

EDIT: Turns out one of the submissions I made is still available on the VIM subreddit.

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Mihail Malo

Yeah, I understand. Sorry about your experience.

This one seems alright though.

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Antonin J. (they/them)

yep! People were nice in this one :)

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Triston Chavez

The Reddit bit really cracked me up. I love Reddit, but wow!! People sure lose the ability to think critically when bunched together in large groups.

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Antonin J. (they/them)

Urgh, yeah, I don't recommend being on Reddit. So glad dev.to is here as an alternative for tech discussions