Project hosted on Google Code, bringing the venerable text editor into the 21st Century of Mac.

MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to Mac OS X that is meant to look better and integrate more seamlessly with the Mac than the existing Carbon port of Vim. Here is a list of some of its features:

• Safari style tabs, Multiple windows, Toolbar, Transparent backgrounds
• GUI Dialogs
• Multibyte
• Keyboard bindings to standard Mac OS X short-keys (such as Cmd-z, Cmd-g, Cmd-o, etc.)
• Extensive help files
• Font panel: access to all of your fonts via the standard OS X font panel, proportional fonts render with fixed advancement
• Input Methods for non-English keyboard input
• Full-screen editing
• ODB Editor protocol support
• Client/Server: use the —remote switch on the command line to open files; script the server with remote_send() et al

Coding by Björn Winckler. See also the vim_mac Google Group.

Not to be confused with Mac Vim, the old Carbonized version.

From Fletcher Penny: “Using MultiMarkdown with Scrivener”

This document assumes a basic familiarity with Scrivener, and with MultiMarkdown. It is designed to help you combine the two programs into a system to help you with the writing process, as well as the printing and publishing process.

It will guide you through the process of setting up a document that will be compatible with exporting to MultiMarkdown.

I’ve been taking a look at Scrivener again of late — I waver back and forth about using it for my next book, but I’m leaning toward it at the moment.

(In case you don’t know, Fletcher is the one who expanded on John Gruber’s Markdown by creating the spiffy MultiMarkdown. Thanks Fletcher!)

Thu Sep 20 12:23:36 PDT 2007

Tracked down an easy method to insert the current date (timestamp) into a Vim document:

:r !date

Producing:

Thu Sep 20 12:24:50 PDT 2007

http://princ3.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/insert-current-date-in-vim/

Should probably set up a single key command for that, maybe an F key.

Thu Sep 20 15:36:40 PDT 2007

Within TextMate, short of creating an internal command, the easiest way is to use the Text > Execute Line and Replace with Result and then using the /bin/date utility by simply typing date and then the ctrl-option-r shortcut

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