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Vim. VI Improved (Vim) is an improved version of the editor "vi", one of the standard text editors on UNIX systems. It has all the features you'll ever need from an editor, and probably three times that many more that you'll never use The newer versions also include a 'vimdiff' mode that you can use to diff and merge file(s). Oh, I didn't mention it's also scriptable in Python, and there's a graphical version: GVIM. Get it from Vim is also available in your favourite OS. Since version 6.0 it has folding. Folding makes your life easy when you have some long files.

You can download many scripts from and learn new tips from the site Vim 7.0 (released mid-2006) includes the Intellisense-like omni-completion for several languages. You can automatically enable syntax coloring and automatic indentation for Python code by adding the following lines to your ~/.vimrc file: syntax on filetype indent plugin on Indentation Or: Presentations: pyblock.vimrc. D : vimcommands. Klen/python-mode. Light at the end of the carpal tunnel: snippets in vim with snipMate | tail -f findings.out. How I boosted my Vim » nvie.com. A few weeks ago, I felt inspired by articles from Jeff Kreeftmeijer and Armin Ronacher. I took some time to configure and fine-tune my Vim environment.

A lot of new stuff made it into my .vimrc file and my .vim directory. This blog post is a summary describing what I’ve added and how I use it in my daily work. Before doing anything else, make sure you have the following line in your .vimrc file: " This must be first, because it changes other options as side effectset nocompatible Step 0: make the customization process easier ¶ Before starting configuring, it’s useful to install pathogen. So, download pathogen.vim, move it into the .vim/autoload directory (create it if necessary) and add the following lines to your .vimrc, to activate it: " Use pathogen to easily modify the runtime path to include all" plugins under the ~/.vim/bundle directorycall pathogen#helptags()call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles() " change the mapleader from \ to ,let mapleader="," Change Vim behaviour ¶ fun!

Vim. Using VIM as your Grails IDE Part 1: Navigating your project | Object Partners Inc. For the last few months I’ve been steadily moving more towards VIM as my primary editor for Grails development. Here I’ll share some of the plugins, scripts tips and tricks that I’ve found most useful for this. I’ll assume you have some knowledge of VIM and the ability to install VIM or your system of choice. Because VIM is so customizable, and everyone is sure to have different workflows, I don’t expect anyone to follow this setup to the letter. Hopefully it will give you a good jump start though. So…why do you want to do this? I don’t want to get into flame wars over editors. It’s lightweight – Even with all of the tweaks and plugins I go through below it’s still snappy and there is very little time spent waiting for the editor.It’s amazingly customizable – With a huge variety of user generated scripts, plus the ability to write your own quickly and easily, it’s one of the most flexible editors out there.

Part 1: Navigating your project :Bookmark bookmarkName :cd /path/to/directory cd. Sjbach/lusty. Vim « Search Results « Lococast.net. Loco Screencast Vim 4: Visual Mode Vim provides some great tools for performing text operations on highlighted or selected blocks of text. Check out this video for a demonstration on how to use visual mode along with the column visual mode to really speed up how you do things in Vim. Links and plugins My Vim Config on Github Let us know what you think by providing feedback in the video source or emailing us at feedback@lococast.net Loco Screencast Vim 3: Powerful Buffer We go over what a buffer is in Vim, how it differs from a window, and how we can use windows with buffers to work on our files much faster than we can with tabs. Commands we talk about :buffers:buffer 2:buffer 3:b 2:buffers:sb 4:bnext :bn:bprevious :bp:ball Also available on YouTube Loco Screencast Vim 2: Tweaking is good for you Lococast.net Screencasts Vim 2: Customizing is Good Welcome to Lococast.net, screencasts.

Make sure to open this fullscreen or into a larger format so you can see it clearly. Loco Screencast Vim 1: Splits. Vim-fu. A more informative status line for Vim. By Kim Schulz on November 02, 2007 (8:00:00 AM) This article is excerpted from the recently published book Hacking Vim. To the right, the default status line shows the number of the current row and column and to the left it shows name of the file currently open (if any).

Whenever you execute a Vim command, the status line disappears and the command buffer is shown in that line instead. If the command you execute writes any messages, then those are shown on the right of the status line. For simple and fast file editing, this status line is adequate. The command that sets how the status line should look is called: :set statusline format where format is a printf-like string that describes how the status line should look. If you look in the Vim help system by typing :help 'statusline', you will see that the status line can contain a wide variety of information. My status line always contains information about: :set laststatus=2 :set laststatus=0 Toggle menu and toolbar :set guioptions-=m.

Top. What specific productivity gains do Vim/Emacs provide over GUI text editors. IdeaVIM Help: index. Search and replace. Vim provides the :s (substitute) command for search and replace; this tip shows examples of how to substitute. On some systems, gvim has Find and Replace on the Edit menu (:help :promptrepl), however it is easier to use the :s command due to its command line history and ability to insert text (for example, the word under the cursor) into the search or replace fields.

Basic search and replace Edit The :substitute command searches for a text pattern, and replaces it with a text string. :%s/foo/bar/g Find each occurrence of 'foo' (in all lines), and replace it with 'bar'. :s/foo/bar/g Find each occurrence of 'foo' (in the current line only), and replace it with 'bar'. :%s/foo/bar/gc Change each 'foo' to 'bar', but ask for confirmation first.

:%s/\<foo\>/bar/gc Change only whole words exactly matching 'foo' to 'bar'; ask for confirmation. :%s/foo/bar/gci Change each 'foo' (case insensitive due to the i flag) to 'bar'; ask for confirmation. :%s/foo/bar/gcI Details Search range: When searching: +, ? Use: :%s/. Easily switch between source and header file. Switching between source and header files is a frequent operation, and so many ways to do it have been suggested. This article tries to list them all, and also list their advantages and disadvantages. Script a.vim Edit A vim script that does this can be found here: script#31, and is called a.vim.

Pros Ease of use. Cons Quite large (~ 350 lines of code, not counting comments). Remarks It was hard to add new filetypes in older versions of the script, but that is no longer the case. Script FSwitch.vim Another vim script that does this can be found here: script#2590, and is called FSwitch.vim. Essentially same as a.vim More flexible path definitions for searches File creation as part of switching is handled well (a sore point with a.vim, apparently) Smaller code size than a.vim (I'm not sure a.vim's code size was ever relevant though) Heavily documented Nothing's perfect.

Using ctags ctags files can be used to find a file very quickly. Very quick ctags files need to be generated function! Function! Ctags. The original Ctags was introduced in BSD Unix and was written by Ken Arnold, with Fortran support by Jim Kleckner and Pascal support by Bill Joy. Editors that support ctags[edit] Tag index files are supported by many source code editors, including: Variants of ctags[edit] There are a few variations of the ctags program: Etags[edit] Etags is the ctags utility that comes with Emacs.

For those options which only make sense for vi style tag files produced by ctags, etags could not recognize them and would ignore them. Exuberant Ctags[edit] Exuberant Ctags includes support for over 40 programming languages with the ability to add support for even more using regular expressions. Hasktags[edit] jsctags[edit] jsctags is a ctags-compatible code indexing solution for JavaScript.[4] It is specialized for JavaScript and its packaging system CommonJS and outperforms Exuberant Ctags for JavaScript code, finding more tags than the latter.[5] Tags file formats[edit] There are multiple tag file formats.

Ctags[edit] Taglist.vim - Source code browser (supports C/C++, java, perl, python, tcl, sql, php, etc) My top 5 vim scripts « Occasionally sane. Bls - bls: is a python script to list buffers opened in all (g)vim servers. Auto Pairs - Insert or delete brackets, parens, quotes in pair. Making MacVim work with Vimperator's external editor feature. Because I'm a vim user, it's naturally for me to use vimperator on top of Firefox. Today I posted a tip on vimperator.org that helps me use Vimperator on my MacOS system. I'm reposting that tip here. To make a long story short, try an editor setting like :set editor='bash -lc "mvim -f \$*" mvim ' or (if you prefer gvim) :set editor='bash -lc "gvim -f \$*" gvim ' Then you should be able to hit CNTRL+I to launch an external editor for textareas.

Shelling out to external commands is hairier in OS X than it is on other platforms. In my case, I use MacVim, which includes a script mvim that can be called as mvim -f ... so that the script will wait for the GUI to exit before it exits. My mvim script is in /usr/local/bin. . :! As you can see, those environment variables are very different from the ones you'd expect in a "login shell. " :set shcf='-lc' Then you'll notice that :! A simple solution is to :set editor='/usr/local/bin/mvim -f' For most people, this solution will be perfect.

Mastering the VI editor. Date: 15/06/2012 I decided to republish the article below after trying to visit the original (to share the link with friend) and discovering it no longer existed. The original was written by Ben Y. Yoshino of the University of Hawaii in 1994/5 and had been on their website ever since, until recently. Hopefully by replicating the original here, I can help a few more people find benefit from it.

Download/View PDF Introduction The VI editor is a screen-based editor used by many Unix users. Conventions In this tutorial, the following convention will be used: ^X denotes a control character. Before You Begin The VI editor uses the full screen, so it needs to know what kind of terminal you have. TERM = (vt100) If you know your terminal is a vt100 (or an emulator that can do vt100), just hit return for the terminal type when you log in. If you make an error when you log in and type the wrong terminal type, don't panic and log out. First, tell your shell what type of terminal you have. Set term=vt100 a h i.

Vim eighteen months on - shapeshed. I switched to Vim for editing text about 18 months ago. Here's an overview of my experience. Goodbye TextMate? About 18 months ago I made the decision to give Vim a go as my primary text editor. I had been using vi extensively for server admin work for a number of years so I wasn't a total noob. TextMate was my default editor and broadly I was happy with it but decided to give Vim a go. Baby steps I started out with baby steps, looking back to TextMate and doing all of the common things a switcher does, especially looking for TextMate's features in Vim. Many people recommend using MacVim to ease the transition. Installation of MacVim via homebrew on OSX is easy brew install macvim MacVim works like a standard application so you don't need to edit directly in the terminal and comes with many common keyboard shortcuts that you'll likely be used to.

The setup phase As with with many things in UNIX you get back what you put in. Learn as you go Vim does take time to learn. :help lowercase Now. Resizing Vim window splits like a boss - Read'n'Code - Flaviu Simihaian's Blog. If you’re using Vim as your text editor (if you’re not, these videos will convince you), you’re probably using window splits.

If you’re using window splits, you probably wished you had a quick way to resize them. I recently watched Gary Bernhardt’s video on VIM File Navigation, and got inspired to research this problem. So, set the following in your ~/.vimrc: This will make sure all splits will be at least 5 lines (which is enough for reference), and the current window will be 30 lines. You can increase or decrease the size of a window by one line with Ctrl-w + - and Ctrl-w + +. That probably makes no sense. As for navigation, I’m using these mappings to move between splits with Ctrl-w + - and Ctrl-w + *+: Also, if you want to make all windows equal, use Ctrl-w + = Check this out for similar nuggets. Best of VIM Tips, gVIM's Key Features zzapper. Top Vim Plugins. Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi? The VI Gang Sign by Jon Beltran de Heredia, May 16th, 2007 Yes, even if you can't believe it, there are a lot fans of the 30-years-old vi editor (or its more recent, just-15-years-old, best clone & great improvement, vim).

No, they are not dinosaurs who don't want to catch up with the times - the community of vi users just keeps growing: myself, I only got started 2 years ago (after over 10 years of being a professional programmer). Friends of mine are converting today. Heck, most vi users were not even born when vi was written! Yes, there are definite reasons why the vi/vim editing model is just superior to any other out there. Misconception #1: modal editing The first time you stumble into vi or vim, you are shocked and disgusted that you have to use 'i' to start typing text.

Turns out, this is just a completely wrong way to use vi or vim. Let me explain the philosophy behind this. And now we come to insert commands. Example #1: the wonderful dot command Let's see a concrete example. Folk.uio.no/tobiasvl/.vimrc. Beginner's guide to Vi Improved (vim) Jesse Goerz jwgoerz@users.sourceforge.net Copyright © 2002 Jesse Goerz, NewbieDoc project.

This manual is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License with your Debian GNU/Linux system, in /usr/doc/copyright/GPL, or with the debiandoc-sgml source package as the file COPYING. 1. This document will cover the console version of vim from Debian stable. Learning vim can be a bit of a trial but it is well worth it in the long run. No introduction to vim would be complete without a warning. If it is so irritating why would you want to learn how to use it? 4. To get more information on modes type: 4.2. Getting Started with Vi. Most people who are getting started with Linux or UNIX today already know how to use graphical WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editors, with heavy use of the mouse, icons and pull-down menus.

When they first encounter the traditional UNIX/Linux editor, vi, it may seem awkward and not very powerful, but the opposite is true. As with graphical editors, you can select a range of text and execute a command to make changes, move the cursor by indicating where you want it to be and insert text by typing at the keyboard. The difference is that vi doesn't use the mouse; you use the keyboard to specify changes or move the cursor. In order for the entire keyboard to be available for commands, vi has separate command and insert modes. Modes can be confusing at first. With most editors, whatever you type always goes into the document, and editing is done using a mouse or perhaps keyboard shortcuts.

The first command to learns in vi is i.