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This article is part of the on-going Vi / Vim Tips and Tricks series. As a programmer or system administrator, you will be constantly browsing source codes and shell scripts. Following are some typical activities that you may perform while browsing a source code file: Navigating to the function definition by specifying the function name. Navigating to the function definition from ‘function call’.
My IDL programs (Some of) My IDL routines can be found here . Two critical, must-read web tutorials. These are quick - a five minute read each, at most - but the techniques demonstrated are extremely powerful.
I always knew that VIM is a very very powerful editor than all the present non-opensource editors. But, I was using crimson editor (freeware), and before that I used editplus (shareware), because, I could not figure out one feature in gvim. That feature is, to open all the files in a single window with different tabs. Today, I figured out that feature, and it is really nice. There is one script (minibufexpl.vim), which you can get from the following website.
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.
