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Andy Schneider is a Systems Engineer at Avanade, a company that was started in 2000 to merge leading enterprise technology solutions with cutting-edge business consulting capabilities. Andy is a member of the IT Infrastructure Hosting team for Avanade's IT Services. He focuses on virtualization using Hyper-V and has done a lot of work with NetApp storage devices. Andy uses PowerShell on a daily basis to manage Hyper-V, Microsoft Clusters, and NetApp storage devices. When Andy is not writing PowerShell code, you can find him spending time with his beautiful wife and two daughters or working out at Kirkland Crossfit. You can find Andy's personal PowerShell blog at http://get-powershell.com and follow him on twitter at @andys146.

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Editing PowerShell Scripts with VIM

November 7, 2008 at 4:11 AM — Andy Schneider

Many *nix folks love the VI editor. There is a very cool improved version of VI called VI Improved, or VIM. VIM is text editor with no mouse. All you get is a keyboard in the console window. They actually do have a GUI’er version that is pretty slick as well. But to really fly on this, the keyboard navigation is the way to go. I am definitely not there but I have found that it can be a nice tool to do a quick update to a script when you are in the console and don’t want to fire up an external editor. Here’s what it looks like

There are some plugins that you can get to get PS highlighting that were written by Peter Provost.

If you are an VI type of guy, or gal, this could be a great tool for you.

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dwight says:

November 7, 2008 at 7:11 AM

i've got real issues with unicode using VIM and powershell scripts. not pretty.

Michael Kruger says:

January 7, 2009 at 6:01 AM

Thanks for the information on editing scripts with VIM. I was curious whether anyone had created a syntax highlighting plugin for Powershell. If it provides help for omni-completion, that would be very cool. Will check it out.

BTW...There are now x64 binaries available for VIM version 7.2. It's a command line installer, but seems to work fine in Vista x64.

code.google.com/p/vim-win3264/wiki/Win64Binaries

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