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 [...]]]> http://www.vim-fu.com/starting-over-in-vim-using-e/feed/ 0 http://www.vim-fu.com/editing-remote-files-with-vim/ http://www.vim-fu.com/editing-remote-files-with-vim/#comments Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:25:44 +0000 jroberts http://www.vim-fu.com/?p=686 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 [...]]]> http://www.vim-fu.com/editing-remote-files-with-vim/feed/ 0 http://www.vim-fu.com/macro-recording-in-vim/ http://www.vim-fu.com/macro-recording-in-vim/#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:55:54 +0000 jroberts http://www.vim-fu.com/?p=662 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 [...]]]> http://www.vim-fu.com/macro-recording-in-vim/feed/ 1 http://www.vim-fu.com/editing-a-long-bash-command-using-vim/ http://www.vim-fu.com/editing-a-long-bash-command-using-vim/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:04:43 +0000 jroberts http://www.vim-fu.com/?p=630 http://www.vim-fu.com/editing-a-long-bash-command-using-vim/feed/ 5 http://www.vim-fu.com/selecting-and-writing-out-a-portion-of-a-file/ http://www.vim-fu.com/selecting-and-writing-out-a-portion-of-a-file/#comments Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:34:38 +0000 jroberts http://www.vim-fu.com/?p=550 Selecting and writing out a portion of a file into another one, or acting on it in some other way is a very handy thing to know how to do in VIM. There are many actions that you can perform, which will save you loads of time, if you just know some basics about [...]]]> http://www.vim-fu.com/selecting-and-writing-out-a-portion-of-a-file/feed/ 0 http://www.vim-fu.com/commenting-out-multiple-lines-in-vim/ http://www.vim-fu.com/commenting-out-multiple-lines-in-vim/#comments Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:32:36 +0000 jroberts http://www.vim-fu.com/?p=559 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 [...]]]> http://www.vim-fu.com/commenting-out-multiple-lines-in-vim/feed/ 0 http://www.vim-fu.com/svn-plugin-for-vim/ http://www.vim-fu.com/svn-plugin-for-vim/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:43:07 +0000 jroberts http://www.vim-fu.com/?p=281 http://www.vim-fu.com/svn-plugin-for-vim/feed/ 1 http://www.vim-fu.com/search-for-a-word/ http://www.vim-fu.com/search-for-a-word/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:07:51 +0000 jroberts http://www.vim-fu.com/?p=278 http://www.vim-fu.com/search-for-a-word/feed/ 0 http://www.vim-fu.com/finding-the-complement-to-a/ http://www.vim-fu.com/finding-the-complement-to-a/#comments Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:27:11 +0000 jroberts http://www.vim-fu.com/?p=260 http://www.vim-fu.com/finding-the-complement-to-a/feed/ 3 http://www.vim-fu.com/reversing-text/ http://www.vim-fu.com/reversing-text/#comments Sun, 17 May 2009 07:30:50 +0000 jroberts http://www.vim-fu.com/?p=244 http://www.vim-fu.com/reversing-text/feed/ 1