I love vim. I use it for everything. So, my recent foray into windows has left me installing vim where ever I go. Amusing then that its taken me this long to think “hey, why do I do this manually every time when I’m also tasked with installing chef on all of these nodes”. Sure, vim doesn’t belong on the prod instances, but it sure needs to be on my dev instances.

To that end, I put together a very rudimentary vim-windows Chef cookbook. Please enjoy. I probably need to add a way to slide my .vimrc… um, I mean _vimrc file in with it, but for now, it is nice to just have vim everywhere 🙂