http://ark.asengard.net/blog Where Doves Kill & Ravens Die. Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:09:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://ark.asengard.net/blog/2009/10/06/12-vim-tips/ http://ark.asengard.net/blog/2009/10/06/12-vim-tips/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:44:38 +0000 Arkham http://ark.asengard.net/blog/?p=846

1. <Ctrl>-k + e + ! – Write ‘è’ character.
   
2. <Ctrl>-k + e + ‘ – Write ‘é’ character.
3. !!date – Insert date in current line.
4. g, / g; – Jump back/forward to the locations that have been edited.
5. zf – Fold selected text.
   
6. zfa} – Fold the function enclosing the cursor.
7. zR / zM – If foldmethod is set, open/close all folds.
8. <Ctrl>-w + (-/+) – In splitted views, reduce/increase current zone height.
   
9. <Ctrl>-w + (</>) – In splitted views, reduce/increase current zone width.
10. :vimgrep /pattern/ files – Search for pattern in the provided list of files.
    
11. :cn and :cN to jump between vimgrep results.
12. :clist to display all vimgrep result and :cc number to jump to a specific one.
13. :%s/\<and\>/or/g – Replace all occurences of “and” with “or”, leaving words like “demand” unchanged.
14. :%s/foo/bar/gi – Replace case insensitively.
15. * / # – Search for the next/previous occurence of the word under the cursor.
16. /\cfoo\Cbar/ – Matches “foobar”, “Foobar” and “FOObar”.
17. /\([a-z]\)\([a-z]\)\2\1/ – Matches “abba” and “deed”.

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1. <Ctrl>-o – Switch from insert mode to command mode for one single command.
2. vim +linenumber file – Open file at line number.
3. vim +/pattern file – Open file at first occurence of pattern.
4. :next files – Open a list of files, each in a new buffer.
5. :up[date] - Save a modified file.
6. “byy + “bp – Copy a line inside named buffer “b” and paste it.
7. <Ctrl>-] – Follow green links in documentation pages.
8. <Ctrl>-t – Go back to the previous documentation page.
9. >ap – Indent whole paragraph.
10. 10dd + 2. – Delete 10 lines, repeat twice (delete 20 lines more).
11. VU – Make the whole line uppercase.
12. V10j + : + !sort – sort alphabetically next 10 lines.
13. :!uname -a – Display system information.
14. :! wc % – Display information about current file.
15. :r!uname -a – Insert system information into the next line.
16. gg=G – Reformat whole file.
17. <Ctrl>-n – Start autocompletion.

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