Tips.VIM.md

VIM (Vi IMproved) Tips

My Personal Vim configuration

• https://github.com/intltechventures/dot.files/

Reference

• https://www.vim.org/

• https://github.com/vim

  • https://github.com/vim/vim

• https://vimhelp.org/

  • https://vimhelp.org/quickref.txt.html
  • https://vimhelp.org/usr_toc.txt.html
  • https://vimhelp.org/#reference_toc
  • https://vimhelp.org/vim_faq.txt.html

• https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki

• https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Vi_editor_tips_and_tricks

• https://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/

Community Forums

• https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=vim

Release Notes

• Vim 9
  • https://vimhelp.org/version9.txt.html

Tutorials

• https://danielmiessler.com/study/vim/

• http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/

• https://vimways.org/2

• https://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix/unix-vi-editor.htm

• https://www.ccsf.edu/Pub/Fac/vi.html

• http://www.atmos.albany.edu/daes/atmclasses/atm350/vi_cheat_sheet.pdf

• https://kb.iu.edu/d/afdc

• https://neovim.io/doc/user/index.html

From Commandline:

• Vim Version
  • vim --version

Within Vim:

• View Runtimepath (inside Vim)

  • :echo &runtimepath

• Which scripts are loaded

  • :scriptnames

• View where a setting was loaded from

  • :verbose set <setting name> (for example: :verbose set background)

Navigation

• Navigating
  • Move to top of screen (Higher)
    • shft-h
  • Move to Middle of screen
    • shift-m
  • Move to Lower of screen

• shift-l

• What Line # am I on?

  • :set number

• GOTO Line #

  • <esc>
  • #
  • shift-g

• GOTO Line #

  • :#

• GOTO Last Line

  • shift-g

• Input Mode

  • [ESC] - to end inut
  • . - repeat last editing command
  • # command - repeat command, # times
  • /string/ - find pattern
  • a - append character mode
  • A - append at EOL
  • cw - change word
  • d - delete one character
  • dd - deline line
  • dw - delete word
  • G - End of File
  • i - insert
  • O - open/insert line
  • p - paste/put buffer (re: paste a yanked line)
  • r - replace character
  • R - Replace Characters
  • x - delete one character
  • y - yank (copy) a line
  • yy - copy line in buffer
  • [n]yy - copy [n] lines to the buffer

• Command Mode

  • :n - goto line n
  • :q - quit
  • :q! - quit, no save
  • :r file - import file
  • :u - Undo last command
  • :redo - redo
  • :w - write
  • :wq - write & quit

• Line Numbering

  • ON
    • :set number | nu
  • OFF
    • :set nonumber | nonu

• Copy Selection, with Mouse

  • In the vim command line to enable copy/paste of text selected using the mouse.
  • :set mouse&

• Copy from-to lines, to current cursor position

  • Example: :81,91t.<enter>
    • This will paste the lines 81-91 under the line the cursor is on.

• Replace text

  • http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Search_and_replace
    • :%/original_text/new_text/
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19994922/find-and-replace-strings-in-vim-on-multiple-lines
    • %s/foo/bar/g - global search and replace, within the file
    • 6,10s/foo/bar/g - search for foo and replace with bar, scoped for just lines 6 to 10.
    • for range in split('6,10 14,18')| exe range 's/<search_string>/<replace_string>/g' - across multiple line number ranges

Language Plugins

• https://github.com/fatih/vim-go