VIM

Some Vim keys and commands

• entering insert mode
  • i/I - insert before cursor/line
  • a/A - insert after cursor/line
  • o/O - new line after/before
  • gi - at last insert position
  • cw - delete word + insert mode *navigation
  • h,j,k,l - left up down right
    • shift h/l
• Ctrl+P, Ctrl+N autocompletion

• Vi Reference Card: Vi basic commands, one page

• Navegar
  • H, M, L - Ir arriba/medio/bajo en la zona visible
  • +/- Ir a la linea siguiente/anterior
  • :+8/:-8 Ir a la linea que esta 8 puestos más abajo/arriba
  • :6 Ir a la linea numero 6

• Replace:
  • :2,3s/^/!/ - Insert ! at the beginning of the lines 2 and 3. See this
  • :s/old/new/g - every occurrence
  • :s/old/new/c - ask confirmation for each
  • :s/old/new/gc
  • :%s/old/new - en todo el fichero
  • & repeat last :s command
  • :s/\v(swap1)(swap2) - swap (swap1swap2 -> swap2swap1)
  • :s/something/\r/ - new line

• Delete:
  • dd - line
  • x, X - character to right, left
  • D - to end of line

• Search:
  • /word
  • n / N - next search match forwards / backwards
  • '*' - searches for the word under the cursor
  • '#' - backwards
  • for selected text see this

• Undo and redo:
  • u
  • Ctr+r

-- HecPeAre - 17 May 2008

• Convert TABS in SPACES
  • :set expandtab
  • :%retab

-- HecPeAre - 20 Jul 2008

Links

• http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoUseVimWithRails

• GoogleTalks -> 7 Habits for...

• http://www.vi-improved.org/wiki/index.php/BestTips

• Summary of VI Commands
• http://www.linux.com/articles/54068

gVim Tutorial

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_the_vi_editor/Vim/Useful_things_for_programmers_to_know

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_the_vi_editor

http://devblog.famundo.com/articles/2007/03/08/how-i-learned-to-love-vim-and-ditched-eclipse

http://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/vim_tutorial.html

http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/help.html

http://www.mydatabasesupport.com/forums/shell/176751-vi-can-vi-add-characters-range-line-command.html

-- HecPeAre - 03 Oct 2007

.vimrc

• ~/.vimrc

#treat your files as UTF-8 and convert everything to UTF (from here

set encoding=utf8
set fileencoding=utf8

:viusage and :exusage commands, which display a full list of normal and ex mode commands that can be used with Vim.

:vimgrep

echo 'set hlsearch' >> .vimrc # :nohlsearch

set nocompatible          " We're running Vim, not Vi!
syntax on                 " Enable syntax highlighting
set encoding=utf8
set fileencoding=utf8
set hlsearch

filetype plugin indent on " Enable filetype-specific indenting and plugins

" Load matchit (% to bounce from do to end, etc.)
runtime! macros/matchit.vim

augroup myfiletypes
  " Clear old autocmds in group
  autocmd!
  " autoindent with two spaces, always expand tabs
  autocmd FileType ruby,eruby,yaml set ai sw=2 sts=2 et
augroup END

-- HecPeAre - 18 May 2008

Tabs

• :tabnew
• Ctrl + Page Up/Down like in Terminal and Firefox
• :tabdo

With Vim's tab implementation, you can use the :tabdo directive to execute a command -- say, a search and replace -- through all open tabs. So, for example, you could run :tabdo %s/oldvariable/newvariable/g to change the name of a variable through two or more files almost as easily as doing the search and replace on a single file. (from here)

ScriptsAndPluginsForVim

sudo aptitude install vim-rails

rails.vim

http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoUseVimWithRails

-- HecPeAre - 30 Sep 2007

Comments:

key.mapping

• :map a<C-R>=strftime("%c")

-- HecPeAre - 01 Dec 2007

broken arrow key navigation in insert mode

-- HecPeAre - 01 Dec 2007

GoogleTalk: 7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0

Three basic steps

* Detect inefficiency * Find a quicker way * Make it a habit

Vim

:set hlsearch ; -> .vimrc

:nohlsearch

*

folding

Habit 2: Don't type it twice

• Ctrl + n (auto complete)

Cont: min 17.

-- HecPeAre - 18 May 2008

Edit Wikipedia

http://wikipediafs.sourceforge.net/

wget http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=6460

vim README

man mount.wikipediafs

-- HecPeAre - 18 Jun 2008

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