I saw this on reddit, and it reminded me of one of my vim gripes: It shows the UI in German. Damn you, vim! I want English, but since my OS is set up in German (the standard at our office), I guess vim is actually trying to be helpfull. What magic incantations must I perform to get vim to switch the UI language? I have tried googling on...
How do I make Caps Lock work like Esc on a Mac? ...
It's been a while since I've had to do any html-like code in vim, but recently I came across this again. Say I'm doing a simple bit of a html page: <html><head><title>This is a title</title></head></html> How do I write those closing tags for title, head and html down quickly? I feel like I'm missing some really simple way here that d...
I currently use a combination of Vim + the vimoutliner plugin to keep notes. To the vimmers out there, what tips, tricks, habits, tools, etc do you use to keep your collection of valuable nuggets of info organized? ...
Hey Folks, Is there a way to search for multiple strings simultaneously in Vim? I recall reading somewhere that it was possible but somehow forgot the technique. So for example, I have a text file and I want to search for "foo" and "bar" simultaneously (not necessarily as a single string, can be in different lines altogether). How do ...
I am using Vim for windows installed in Unix mode. Thanks to this site I now use the 'gf' command to go to a file under the cursor. I'm looking for a command to either: return to the previous file (similar to ^t for ctags), or remap 'gf' to automatically launch the new file in a new window. ...
In Vim editor I opted ]I on a function (in C++ code). This presented a list, which says 'Press ENTER or type command to continue'. Now to jump to an occurrence say 6, I type 6 - but this is not working. What commands can I type in such case, and how do I jump to N occurrence from this list? Update: Actually I tried :N (eg :6) - but ...
I decide to learn more about vim and its syntax highlighting. Using examples for others, I am creating my own syntax file for Markdown. I have seen mkd.vim and it has this problem too. My issue is between list items and code block highlighting. Code Block definition: first line is blank second line begins with at least 4 spaces or 1 t...
Howdy, is it possible to extend vim functionality via custom extension (preferably, written in Python)? What I need ideally is custom command when in command mode. E.g. ESC :do_this :do_that ...
Emacs has a useful transpose-words command which lets one exchange the word before the cursor with the word after the cursor, preserving punctuation. For example, ‘stack |overflow’ + M-t = ‘overflow stack|’ (‘|’ is the cursor position). <a>|<p> becomes <p><a|>. Is it possible to emulate it in Vim? I know I can use dwwP, but it doesn’t...
I'm looking for a suite of plugins that can help me finally switch over to vim full-time. Right now I'm using Komodo with some good success, but their vim bindings have enough little errors that I'm tired of it. What I do love in Komodo, though, is the code completion. So, here's what I'm looking for (ordered by importance). Code com...
What are the essential addons to help with editing C? ...
I'm sure this is a newbie question, but every time I've compiled/dl'ed a new version of vim for os x, running vim on the command-line opens up the gvim app. I just want to upgrade the console version (so I can, for example, have python compiled in to use omnicomplete). ...
Right now I have the following in my .vimrc: au BufWritePost *.c,*.cpp,*.h !ctags -R There are a few problems with this: It's slow -- regenerates tags for files that haven't changed since the last tag generation. I have to push the enter button again after writing the file because of an inevitable "press Enter or type command to con...
Is it possible to reset the alternate buffer in a vim session to what it was previously? By alternate buffer, I mean the one that is referred to by #, i.e. the one that is displayed when you enter cntl-^. Say I've got two files open main.c and other.c and :ls gives me: 1 %a "main.c" lines 27 2 # "other.c" ...
I have done some googling and I'm surprised that I haven't found this. COuld someone explain to me simply the easiest way to change the indentation behavior of vim based on the file type? For instance if I open a python file it would indent with 2 spaces, but if I open powershell it would use 4 spaces. ...
When creating a new file with vim, I would like to automatically add some skeleton code. For example, when creating a new xml file, I would like to add the first line: <?xml version="1.0"?> Or when creating an html file, I would like to add: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/...
Vi and Vim allow for really awesome customization, typically stored inside a .vimrc file. Typical features for a programmer would be syntax highlighting, smart indenting and so on. What other tricks for productive programming have you got, hidden in your .vimrc? I am mostly interested in refactorings, auto classes and similar productiv...
Although I played with it before, I'm finally starting to use Dvorak (Simplified) regularly. I've been in a steady relationship with Vim for several years now, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to remap the key bindings to suit my newfound Dvorak skills. How do you remap Vim's key bindings to best work with Dvorak? Explanations...
Huge files take forever to load and work with in vim, due to syntax-highlighting. I'm looking for a way to limit size of highlighted files, such that files larger than (say) 10MB will be colorless. ...