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The 15 Best Vim Plugins | Steve Francia's Epic Blog
One of the things that makes vim great is that it can be extended through plugins. There are plugins for more than you would expect. I have gathered together the 15 best plugins.
Configuring Vim right – items.sjbach.com
I have spent a lot of time peering into a Vim window, and correspondingly, a lot of time testing different configurations. These are the best non-standard options I’ve found or stolen from others over the years; listed below in order of descending usefulness — though I think everything in this article is worth skimming — are tips that should have value to anyone, no matter how they like to run Vim. That is, there is minimal editorializing.
8 Essential Vim Editor Navigation Fundamentals
This article is written by SathiyaMoorthy. This article is part of the ongoing Vi / Vim Tips and Tricks series. Navigation is a vital part of text editing.
Learn to use help
Vim's help is remarkably helpful, but in order to use it effectively you need to spend a few minutes learning how it is organised. Getting started Edit Try these examples:
On 14/08/12 02:38, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: > On Sun, 12 Aug 2012, Benji Fisher wrote: [...] >> If you typed PATHTOMATCHIT literally, it would not work. I usually >> recommend adding this to your vimrc file: >> >> source $VIMRUNTIME/macros/matchit.vim > > This is roughly equivalent to Tony's suggestion of: > > runtime macros/matchit.vim > > :runtime is almost the same as using :source and prepending $VIMRUNTIME. > But, it has the benefit of searching all 'runtimepath' directories (not > just the system directories), which makes it possible to override > system-wide versions.
Vim - General - Install matchit
Learn to speak vim - verbs, nouns, and modifiers!
Posted 16 December 2011 @ 12pm in vim Using vim is like talking to your editor in ‘verb modifier object’ sentences, turned into acronyms learn some verbs: v (visual), c (change), d (delete), y (yank/copy). these are the most important. there are others learn some modifiers: i (inside), a (around), t (till..finds a character), f (find..like till except including the char), / (search..find a string/regex) learn some text objects: w (word), s (sentence) p (paragraph) b (block/parentheses), t (tag, works for html/xml) there are others To move efficiently in vim, don’t try to do anything by pressing keys many times, instead speak to the editor in sentences delete the current word: diw (delete inside word) change current sentence: cis (change inside sentence) change a string inside quotes: ci” (change inside quote) change until next occurrence of ‘foo’: c/foo (change search foo) change everything from here to the letter X: ctX visually select this paragraph: vap (visual around paragraph)
Daily Vim Devotional
Helpful article showing you how to use the command line window for navigating command histor :help command-line-window Vim movement comands wallpaper vitality.vim This plugin helps terminal vim interact with iTerm2 and tmux. It’s useful if you care about any of the following:
http://nvie.com/posts/how-i-boosted-my-vim/ Published: September 14, 2010 Last updated: September 23, 2010 (highlight updates) Last updated: September 23, 2010 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.
How I boosted my Vim » nvie.com
When writing a program it can be convenient if closing brackets are automatically inserted. For example, after typing { it can be handy if the closing } is added automatically. Our featured tip discusses solutions for this problem: some simple mappings are provided and their shortcomings outlined.
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