VIM

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Basics

Registers

• list: :registers
• "a-z: named registers

Search

• find lines longer than n characters: /\%>80v.\+

Files, buffers

• Modeline: VIM settings in file itself

  • for root usually disabled for security
    Example:

  # vim: ft=yaml tw=4 sw=4
  

Remote file editing

vim scp://user@host[:port]//path/to/file

also supports sftp, http (read-only), rsync

Commands

Auto-commands

" execute script after writing file (https://stackoverflow.com/a/4628210/16096134) or use inotify
:autocmd BufWritePost * !run_tests.sh <afile>

Plugins

Plugin managers

• vim-plug
• vim-pathogen

Config

• editorconfig-vim: use https://editorconfig.org files

Editing

• YouCompleteMe
  • Needs compilation
    • dependencies: cmake, pythonXX-devel
    • then run ./install.py in the plugin’s directory
• sideways: move function arguments (and other delimited-by-something items) left and right
• Programming languages
  • ruby
    • vim-ruby
  • HTML
    • tagalong.vim: Change an HTML(ish) opening tag and take the closing one along as well
• vim-pandoc: pandoc integration and utilities for vim
• vim-tabular:
  • article: gist for automatic indentation/tabularisation when typing for example |

Aesthetics, customisation

Color scheme highlight groups
Show highlight group used for code under cursor:

:command! SS echo map(synstack(line('.'), col('.')), 'synIDattr(v:val, "name")')

Fancy font with fancy icons
Plugin iryanoasis/vim-devicons with patched font as described in iryanoasis/nerd-fonts.
For example font Hack

• download patched font files (ttf) from repo and copy them to a directory that is checked for fonts, for example ~/.fonts or /usr/share/fonts
• rebuild font cache fc-cache -f -v