I'd like to be able to do something like this in vim (you can assume v7+ if it helps). Type in a command like this (or something close) :inshtml and have vim dump the following into the current file at the current cursor location <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtm...
I use Vim to read man pages. But I'm having trouble searching for variables. For example I use: /\<-s\> to search for '-s', but it doesn't find anything. Grrr. I see it in the file. What am I doing wrong? ...
Google is not being very helpful here. I'd like to compose emails with :set spell on, but for all other files, :set spell should be off. I am using mutt, and Vim as the editor for composing emails. In fact, I'm curious, how does Vim know that it's an email I'm composing? Is there a command-line parameter of the type of file being edited...
I use full blown graphical IDEs such as Eclipse CDT (Linux) and Visual Studio (Windows) which have features like auto completion, built in debugging, etc. These are features that I feel I can't live without. I keep hearing about how many people use emacs/vim on a daily basis. How come people still use console based editors when graphica...
When using Vim, and given a directory filled with code (e.g. ~/trunk/) with a number of sub-directories, is there a way to grep/search for instances of text/regexes across the entire source code? At the moment I use: :lcd ~/trunk :grep "pattern" *.py */*.py */*/*.py */*/*/*.py (Obviously I'm limiting this to Python files, which is a ...
I've been looking at trying to learn vim for a while now, I've come across ViEmu through stackoverflow, and I read the very motivating article: Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi? Anyway, I've come to like the command mode in vim, specially the motions, and I also like the idea behind ViEmu, which is to bring "vim mode" into a ...
When using VIM is there a way that :grep or :vimgrep will color the patterns returned to the buffer? Thanks! ...
I know I can use awk but I am on a windows box I am making a function for others that may not have awk. I also know I can write a C program but I would love not have to create maintain and compile something for a little vim utility I am making. THe original file might be THE DAY WAS LONG THE WAY WAS FAST and it would become TT H...
To open a file in vim, I usually type ":e " and then hit tab until the file I want appears. However, I always get in a rhythm and inadvertently go ONE past the desired file. Without knowing how to move backwards, I end up tabbing all the way to the end and repeating the whole process. Is there a way to perform the filename completion ...
I want to search for multiple strings in vim/gvim and have them highlighted in different colours. Is there a way of doing this with out-the-box vim or with a plug-in? ...
Hi, I've got a unified diff file (say my_diff.diff), containing comparison of several files from a project. What would be the best way to review all the code changes in a nice visual format, for example, using meld or vimdiff? I have figured out the way how to do it for a single diff file (ie. containing comparison of just two files)...
What command can I run to remove blank lines in Vim? ...
Is there a way in vim to close all files (buffers, let's not get into that) from some directory and its subdirectories? ...
I have the following setup: mkdir /1 mkdir /1/2 mkdir /1/2/3 ln -s /1/2/3 /1/3 If I do cd /1/3, and then pwd, I get /1/3. If I use pwd -P, I can get /1/2/3, or pwd -L to force /1/3. In VIM, I'm looking for a way to get the /1/3. If I open a file in /1/3/foo.txt, and I use something like fnamemodify(bufname(winbufnr(0)), ':p:h'), it ...
How can I move the cursor to, say, position 25 on the current line? ...
What's the vi/gvim syntax to replace a pattern with a pattern that includes <ENTER>? I know this is possible but never felt like diving too deep in the documentation to know how to do it. Something like this: :s/\(word\)/\1<ENTER>/ But correctly :) Thanks ...
Hi. I need a script code to highlight "[Capítulo" and "]" and everything between them. Thank you. I want it to work everytime I open , for example, a .txt file. Just like code highlighting. ...
How do I highlight operators/parentheses/brackets/etc. in VIM? I'm not interested in coloring matching or unmatching parentheses/brackets. I've tried ":hi cBracket/whatnot guifg=something" and ":hi Operator/cOperator guifg=something" but these don't seem to affect anything. ...
This may sound a bit provocative but it actually is a real question. Feel free to edit if you don't like the tone. Now, as much as I understand vi from my short experience with it like 10 years ago, it's a primitive text editor with one editable line at the bottom of the screen created before the scrollbars were invented, with some craz...
There is a plethora of questions where people talk about common tricks, notably "Vim+ctags tips and tricks". However, I don't refer to commonly used shortcuts that someone new to Vim would find cool. I am talking about a seasoned Unix user (be she/he a developer, administrator, both, etc.), who thinks (s)he knows something 99% of us ne...