Daily Vim: Text Editor Tips, Tricks, Tutorials, and HOWTOs. Vi-vim-cheat-sheet.gif (GIF Image, 1024x724 pixels) Vim Tips Wiki. Learning the vi Editor/Vim/Useful things for programmers to know. Learning the vi Editor/TOC Useful things for programmers to know[edit] There are quite a few things programmers ought to know about vim that will make their experience that much easier. Programmers can save hours and weeks of man-hours over the long haul with effective editors. Here are some tricks and tools that vim provides.
With the time you save, you might speed up your work and have some extra time for a quick Quake deathmatch or eventually increase your productivity to help justify a larger wage increase. Word, variable, function, and line completion[edit] Sometimes the word you're typing is really long. Word/variable/function name Completion Generally, any word in the current file, or any of the other files (buffers) you are editing in the same instance of vim, will match for completion. Technically, this isn't true. You can also define a dictionary of your own for completion. Example 1 As an example, you might edit a C program file, "blah.c". Example 2 #include <math.h> and try again.
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