Often while editing config files, I'll open one with vi and then when I go to save it realize that I didn't type sudo vi filename Is there any way to give vi sudo privileges to save the file? I seem to recall seeing something about this while looking up some stuff about vi a while ago, but now I can't find it....
Pretty much every other editor that isn't a vi descendant (vim, cream, vi-emu) seems to use the emacs shortcuts (ctrl+w to delete back a word and so on) ...
I've never learned to use vi or Emacs yet people do use them still, despite there being other editors out there that are free and useful. What is it about these two and any others like them that means they hold appeal in the face of the newer editors? ...
If not, what are the significant differences? ...
I have been looking at the new Objective-J / Cappuccino javascript framework from 280North. They provide plug-ins for SubEthaEdit and TextMate to handle syntax highlighting, but I primarily use vi. Does anyone know of a way to get Objective-J syntax highlighting in vi, or a good way to convert whatever format the other two editors use?...
I've started using vim to develop Perl scripts and am starting to find it very powerful. One thing I like is to be able to open multiple files at once with e.g. "vi main.pl maintenance.pl" and then hop between them with: :n :prev and see which file are open with :args And to add a file, I can say: :n test.pl which I expect would...
Programming in vim I often go search for something, yank it, then go back to where I was, insert it, modify it. The problem is that after I search and find, I need to MANUALLY find my way back to where I was. Is there an automatic way to go back to where I was when I initiated my last search? ...
Surprisingly as you get good at vim, you can code even faster than standard IDEs such as Eclipse. But one thing I really miss is code completion, especially for long variable names and functions. Is there any way to enable code completion for Perl in vim? ...
Using vim I often want to replace a block of code with a block that I just yanked. But when I delete the block of code that is to be replaced, that block itself goes into the register which erases the block I just yanked. So I've got in the habit of yanking, then inserting, then deleting what I didn't want, but with large blocks of code ...
As I develop more with vim, I find myself wanting to copy in blocks of useful code, similar to "templates" in Eclipse. I was thinking of making a separate file for each code chunk and just reading them in with :r code-fornext but that just seems kind of primitive. Googling around I find vim macros mentioned and something about "maps...
EditPad Lite has a nice feature (CTRL-E, CTRL-I) which inserts a time stamp e.g. "2008-09-11 10:34:53" into your code. What is the best way to get this functionality in Vim? (I am using Vim 6.1 on a Linux server via SSH. In the current situation a number of us share a login so I don't want to create abbreviations in the home directory ...
Selecting a large amount of text that extends over many screens in an IDE like Eclipse is fairly easy since you can use the mouse, but what is the best way to e.g. select and delete multiscreen blocks of text or write e.g. three large methods out to another file and then delete them for testing purposes in Vim when using it via putty/ssh...
I want to paste something I have cut from my desktop into a file open in Vi. But if I paste the tabs embed on top of each other across the page. I think it is some sort of visual mode change but can't find the command. ...
What are the essential vim commands? What does a new-user need to know to keep themselves from getting into trouble? One command per comment, please. ...
How do I prevent vim from replacing spaces with tabs when autoindent is on? An example: if I have two tabs and 7 spaces in the beginning of the line, and tabstop=3, and I press Enter, the next line has four tabs and 1 space in the beginning, but I don't want that... ...
A good while ago, I read an article by the creator of viemu, clearing up a lot of the misconceptions about vi, as well as explaining why it's a good idea (and why it's been very popular for the last 30 years+). The same guy also has a great set of graphical cheat sheets that teach the basics a few bits at a time. I'm convinced. I've b...
I recently installed vim-enhanced , but I can't find any article/tutorial related to it.All I could find is a page that briefly describes it's new features , along with several RPM's to download . What exactly does it have to offer to scripting languages that regular vi/vim can't ? Thanks ...
In the Korn shell on AIX UNIX Version 5.3 with the editor mode set to vi using: set -o vi What are the key-strokes at the shell command line to autocomplete a file or directory name ? ...
I've been somewhat spoiled using Eclipse and java. I started using vim to do C coding in a linux environment, is there a way to have vim automatically do the proper spacing for blocks? So after typing a { the next line will have 2 spaces indented in, and a return on that line will keep it at the same indentation, and a } will shift b...
I am somewhat clumsy in my vi knowledge. I know how to generally move around in command mode, specifically, jumping to lines, etc. But what is the command to jump to the end of the line that I am currently on? ...