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Hey guys, this is Steve Losh.

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If you're watching this screencast you probably already know that I've been writing a book

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called "Learn Vimscript the Hard Way".

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I figured I'd do a screencast while I wrote one of the shorter chapters

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just to show you kind of how I work and how I'm making the book.

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So first what I'm going to do is open an iTerm window...

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and let's make it nice and big... okay.

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I'm going to open DVTM, which is -- it's a terminal multiplexer, kind of like Tmux or Screen,

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just a lot simpler. I don't really use all the functionality of Tmux or Screen,

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so DVTM does pretty much everything I need.

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And I'm going to open three splits with one of them a little smaller.

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I'm going to go into the repo for the book in each of them.

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In this window I'm going to run a little script -- a little program called "kicker",

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which is open source, it's Ruby so you can just "gem install kicker".

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What it does is it basically monitors all the files that you tell it

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and whenever any one of them changes it just runs a command.

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Any shell command you want.

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So in this case I'm the command that builds the book,

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so any time I make a change to the book it will automatically get built, which is really handy.

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So I'm going to run that, and it fires off -- oops, sorry, I need to be in the virtualenv.

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"workon" the virtualenv... okay. Now I'm going to run kicker... okay.

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And it goes ahead and does it once to begin with,

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and then any time I touch a file that I told it to watch,

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so if I go here and say "touch preface" you can it executes again.

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Okay. The other thing I'm going to do is "cd" into the "build" directory,

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where the output of Bookmarkdown is going to put the HTML files,

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and I'm just going to run "serve_this", which is a little alias

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that basically serves the current directory on port 8000.

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And if you want to see what it is, it's just a Python module -- it's just

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"python -m SimpleHTTPServer"

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SimpleHTTPServer is a built-in Python module,

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so anywhere that has Python, I mean a relatively recent version, will have this.

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So it's just a simple command to serve a directory on port 8000.

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And I'm going to open Firefox and open localhost:8000.

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Alright, so this is our book, right, this is what I've got so far.

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I'm going to move that over here... okay,

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ah, we don't need it that big.

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Alright, we've got a book. And now I'm just going to open Vim and start working.

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I'm not going to comment on everything and explain how I do everything

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because that would just take forever.

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Everything's in my muscle memory and I'd have to stop and think about every key I press

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so if you see something that I do and you're kinda wondering how I did it

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just leave a comment with the time in the video that it appears and I'll do my best to explain it for you.

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With that said, I'm just going to put my headphones on and start typing. Cool.

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Okay guys, I think that's about it.

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I'm going to encode this screencast and upload it to Vimeo and that should be about it.

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Like I said, if there's anything that you saw and you liked and you want to know how I did it

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or you think I have a special mapping,

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just post a comment on the video and -- or just tweet at me, either one --

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and just let me know the time and what it looks like and I'll let you know.

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Otherwise I guess that's it. Alright, cool. Thanks guys.