Vim

Links

• http://www.vim.org/ - vim homepage
• http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/ - the online source for Vim documentation
• Learn vim playing
• Cheat sheet

Documentation

Cheatsheets

• https://www.cs.oberlin.edu/~kuperman/help/vim/

Editing xml files

Create tag pairs

• http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Plugins

• Emmet html plugin

FAQ

Commands are entered by hitting the Esc button then ":" and the setting, function, command etc.

Delete until end of file

dG

Undo undo

ctrl-r

Indentation

:set filetype=xml

• http://psy.swan.ac.uk/staff/carter/Unix/vim_indent.htm
• http://www.chovy.com/web-development/fix-indentation-and-tabs-in-vim/

Enable/Disable line numbering

 set nu!

Importing the output of ls -l into the current buffer

 r !ls -l

syntax highlighting on dark background

:set background=dark

Sort lines 50 to 76 ussing the unix sort command

 50,76 !sort

Change syntax colours

find syncolor.vim

• http://nosheep.net/story/vi-color-schemes/

End highlighting search results

<f9> <esc>:nohlsearch<cr>

show tabs

:set list and :set nolist

modelines in code

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Modeline_magic

In ~/.vimrc you need

set modeline

En then near top or bottom of your code something like

# vim: ts=4:sw=4:sts=0

Mind the spaces!