Anonymous Pro font

I tried Anonymous Pro font the terminal app and MacVim:
http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymouspro.html

It looks good in size 14 bold with antialiasing on.
I like it so far, though this could and would change I'm sure :)

Vim thoughts

One of the frustrations of getting used to Vim editor, is when you get back to the "real world" (browsers, editors, IDEs, etc.) the navigation with h,j,k,l buttons doesn't work, instead they all require you to use "arrow" buttons. IMHO the "h,j,k,l" navigation is so freaking awesome.


Update (02-14-2012):
Vlad, sent me the link to Vimium http://vimium.github.com/ - the Crome extension. Still, as I type this post I have to use arrow keys to move the cursor.
Also need to figure out how to do the same kind of thing for the terminal app, the mail app, etc. ....well, pretty much for every app that uses scrolling and navigation. I wish there was some global setting on Mac OS X to allow to do just that in one single change.

Building MacVim on Mac OS X

Here are some instructions:
https://github.com/b4winckler/macvim/wiki/Building

The problem that I stumbled upon was the errors with libicon:
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:"_iconv", referenced from: ........

The libicon on the system is not compiled for 64bit by default.
To fix this you need to get the latest libiconv-1.14:
http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/#downloading

Configure it with:
CFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch x86_64' CCFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch x86_64' CXXFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch x86_64' ./configure
then >  make && make install

After that you can get the MacVim source code and build it fine, got 7.3.401 now.

Latest Vim for Mac OS X

The 7.3 version on Vim that comes with Mac OS X is getting old. It doesn't support some of the latest features and you would not be able to use some of the interpeters like ruby that is not supported out of the box.
One way to improve this is to install MacVim, another one is to recompile Vim from source code configuring some of the missing features. Here is how I configured it for myself for example:

* Get source code:
> hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ vim

* Compile & Install:
> cd vim
> ./configure --enable-luainterp --enable-perlinterp --enable-pythoninterp --enable-tclinterp --enable-rubyinterp --enable-cscope
> make -j4
> make install

By default everything will be installed user /usr/local, so make sure that /user/local/bin is specified before /usr/bin in your PATH environment variable, or use a different prefix for ./configure  that already specified before /usr/bin path for example --prefix=/opt/local.

After these steps I got Vim 7.3.434 on my machine.

Vim, some useful links

I started using vim more actively recently and really enjoying it.
Here is a good find:
http://code.google.com/p/vimcolorschemetest/
The page has links at the bottom with hundreds of colorschemes to preview.

Here is a good article with useful links:
http://nvie.com/posts/how-i-boosted-my-vim/

Also, really liked Derek Wyatt's videos:
http://www.derekwyatt.org/vim/vim-tutorial-videos/