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/
• https://why-vi.rocks/

Editing xml files

Create tag pairs

• http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Plugins

• Emmet html plugin

HOWTO

Pathogen

• Manage Vim Plugins With Pathogen

Is not entirely correct, you need to

ln -s ~/.vim/autoload/vim-pathogen/autoload/pathogen.vim ~/.vim/autoload/

Macros

See

• Vim Macros

Cheatsheet

Moving

Move to next word

w

Move to previous word

b

Select

Select and copy part of line

At start hit ctrl-v, use arrow keys to select and then y

then p to paste elsewhere

Line

y

Select until end of line

y$

Delete

Delete empty lines

:g/^$/d

Delete rest of line

D

Delete up to word

d/<word>

Delete until end of file

dG

Delete up to character

Including ,

df,

or up to ,

dt,

Delete from beginning of file to cursor

dgg

Execute the script you're editing

:!%

folding

open fold

zo, zO

unfold all

zR

Replace with newline

s:/foo/^V^M/g

FAQ

What is this $VIMRUNTIME

:echo $VIMRUNTIME

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

Match non-empty lines only

s/[^^]$/ append this/

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!

Save as root

:w !sudo tee %

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/

Searching in Vim

End highlighting search results

<f9> <esc>:nohlsearch<cr>

Case insensitive search

:/\cfoo

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!

 

replace tabs with spaces

:%s/^\t\+/ g

disable mouse

set mouse=

disable visual

When mouse/copy is acting up, showing 'visual'

set mouse-=a