I <3 
A quest to make my all tools Vimish Vimesque
Vim…ahh such a simple name for such a powerful tool. I’ve been using this text editor for over 5 years, but I still pick up new tricks all the time.
Vim everywhere!
In a quest to leverage my Vim muscle memory in more than one program, I’m using Vimperator, which turns Firefox’s interface into a Vim-like interface! Yes, that’s right, it rids you of those pesky toolbars and lets you navigate without a mouse; it even has different modes (It’s in insert mode as I type this 
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I also found a plugin to turn another of my favorite tools into Vim: VsVim! It changes Visual Studio’s key bindings to match Vim’s. I’ve been using it for a few weeks, and so far it works well alongside ReSharper and Visual Studio’s built-in Intellisense, etc. It’ll even read in your .vimrc!! Oh, did I mention it’s free? This is a great FOSS alternative to viEmu (although I’d still love to try this one to compare the two). It hasn’t hit version 1.0 yet, so I’m really looking forward to the future versions as Jared adds more features.
One more highly recommended Firefox plugin is It’s All Text! Not really Vim-specific I suppose, but it lets you edit any textarea (or textbox depending on settings) in an external text editor.
Hopefully all this Vimania doesn’t fan the flames of the editor war…but if you like Emacs you’re probably off flipping bits with butterflies anyway…
Happy Vimming!
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