A month of Vim (including Ruby, cron and GeekTool)

The general idea

1. Teach myself Vim by using it exclusively for 1 month
2. Write my first (somewhat) useful Ruby script to show me how long I have left (i.e. how long until the month is complete)
3. Use GeekTool to display the regularly-updated results (via cron) on my desktop

But why?

I need to learn Vim, and this is a cool way to tie in some other things that I would like to learn, like how to use cron. I’m also currently building a website using Rails, so some knowledge of Ruby would be ideal.

But on the other hand…

I’m a nerd. I want to learn some new, cool things.

Basically that’s it.

To Do

• Complete the vimtutor tutorial
• Create a Ruby script that writes to a file the amount of time left that I need to exclusively use Vim
• Use cron to schedule this script to run hourly
• Use GeekTool to put the results on my desktop

This is going to be a bit of a pet project of mine, and I’ll try and update this post regularly with my progress.

Enjoy.