Vim Notes & Tricks

• Dealing with Kindle's My_Clipping.txt: A tricky yank task study.

My Vim Plugins

• Pathogen. Elegant plugin manager.
• Matchit.vim, extended % matching for HTML, LaTeX, and many other languages.
• surround.vim, delete/change/add parentheses/quotes/xml-tags/much more with ease.
• ctags + taglist. Ctags is actually a standalone program, capable of generating a list of functions/variables/classes, i.e. 'tags', found in files in different languages. Taglist.vim displays the result in a vsplit (to get rid of the left-hand scroll bar when it is displayed, :set guioptions-=L). A list of ctags tricks here.

Basic Editting Stuff

• If some lines are highlighted in visual mode (checkout visual-mode), press J to join them altogether.

Some Notes

• I have read some help texts, many tutorials, and tried to program some simple task. But it seems very hard to get familiar with Vim scripts (Feb 03, 2011 13:48:33)

Substitution

<nowiki>:s/\(\w\+\)/\1 # /</nowiki> Change <nowiki>A B</nowiki> to <nowiki>A # B</nowiki>.

Commands

• Use @: to repeat last colon command.
• To resolve dos/unix format issues, use :set ff=dos and :set ff=unix (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4633564/vim-mac-vs-linux-m-problem).
• File encoding issues: :e! ++enc=utf-8

Datestamp

Add

nnoremap <F5> 3wv$"=strftime("%c")<CR>P

to your VIMRC. Place cursor on the head of "Last Modified" line and <F5>. See also.

Linux-related

Use vim-gtk or vim-gnome under linux (for instance, under vim-basic "+y, or the system clipboard, will not work).

Useful Links & Resouces

1. Some tutorial videos here (http://ontwik.com/tools/vim-from-novice-to-professional-by-derek-wyatt-p1/).
2. http://www.derekwyatt.org/vim/vim-tutorial-videos/vim-novice-tutorial-videos/
3. http://www.derekwyatt.org/vim/vim-tutorial-videos/vim-intermediate-tutorial-videos/
4. http://www.derekwyatt.org/vim/vim-tutorial-videos/vim-advanced-tutorial-videos/
5. http://www.derekwyatt.org/vim/vim-tutorial-videos/vim-plugin-showcase/
6. http://www.linuxconfig.org/Vim_Tutorial

Last Modified: February 06, 2012 18:54:24