Vim-Fu

Quite often I’ll open up several different file in the vim buffer to be edited.

~$ vim `grep -l v1.2r5 *.pl`

Commands like that can save you a lot of time searching through files looking for a single value or word.

How many files did that load into Vim’s buffer?  Check with:

:ls

Let’s say grep found three files and [...]

I haven’t posted a trick in a while, so here’s a good one to know.

Ever start working on a file in command mode and then hit the caps key without realizing it.  Wham! All sorts of un-expected things can happen before you know it.  What do you do then? You could use q! to exit [...]

This is a pretty cool little feature.  I am not sure how often it will come into play, but I like it and I thought I would share it.

To edit a file on a remote machine that you have ssh access to, do this:

vim scp://remote_host//filename

Simple as that. Supported protocols are: scp, sftp, ftp and http [...]

Repetitive tasks can be annoying and are easily mitigated using the macro functionality in VIM.

For our simple example, let’s count 1 to 10 with each number on a new line.  This will make use of the Auto-increment functionality, discussed in a previous post entitled increment/decrement numbers in VIM, which is CTRL-a and yy, which yanks the [...]

Visual block mode is a great tool when commenting out a section of code, large or small, all at once.

Look at this section of code from a script I am writing. Let’s say I wanted to comment out everything you see.

I start with my cursor on the “%” and enter visual [...]

This is a really nice little plugin that offers common SVN commands to the user from within [...]

I have been using the # for a while now but the * is a welcome [...]

Use this as a quick way to jump to the end of [...]