Updated on September 29, 2020 in #dev-environment, #vim

Giving a Text Based Slide Presentation in Vim without Plugins

In this video we'll add a few lines to our vimrc file so we can easily cycle between slides. We'll use Goyo too, but that's optional.

While preparing for a talk I’m giving soon about using the command line and terminal I wanted a quick and easy way to show text based slides within Vim.

After a bit of fiddling around, this was the end result. It’s a few lines of code that can be dropped into your .vimrc file and technically it requires no plugins.

Although in this case I am using Goyo to make it look better. You can replicate what Goyo does without using it by setting a few stock vimrc options if you don’t want to use Goyo.

# Demo Video

Timestamps

• 0:31 – Doable without plugins but Goyo is nice to have
• 0:47 – Setting up your slides in a directory of .vpm files
• 1:09 – Cycling between slides with the right and left arrow keys
• 1:49 – Configuring your vimrc to deliver text based slides
• 3:45 – That was deceptively easy but it works

Reference Links

• https://www.meetup.com/nyhackr/events/272727821/
• Direct link to vimrc slides snippet
• https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim

Are you going to give a talk using this method? Let us know below.