Vim + Markdown = Writer's Heaven

I use Jekyll, Markdown and Vim to write content for my blog. Rather than wrestling with a full-fledged CMS or writing raw HTML, I can use a human readable markup language to write my posts. Vim is my editor of choice, and while I like the friendliness of GUI markdown tools, I miss my shortcuts, autocomplete and plugins in vim. Having a minimalistic text editor gives me an environment that is distraction free, version controlled and easy to publish. This article will go into how to set up vim ...