I am using vim as my main editor for a few years but since freelancing I am learning to use it even more.
Vimrc settings
My changes to vim at the moment look like this
syntax on
set bg=dark
" indent
set cindent
set smartindent
set autoindent
" tabs
set expandtab
set shiftwidth=2
set tabstop=4
set showmatch " Show matching brackets.
" auto complete + C-n
set showcmd " Show (partial) command in status line.
" case search
set ignorecase " search ingore case if all lower search
set smartcase " Do smart case matching (flips igonore if use any caps)
set incsearch " search as type
" highlight search
set hlsearch " highlight all searches " :nohlsearch
"set visualbell
"set cinkeys=0{,0},:,0#,!,!^F
set cinkeys=0{,0},:,0#
set cinwords=if,else,while,do,for,switch,case " Which keywords should indent
imap <C-e> <esc>$a
imap <C-l> <esc>g_
:nmap <C-n> :tabnext<cr>
" Press Space to turn off highlighting and clear any message already displayed.
:nnoremap <silent> <Space> :nohlsearch<Bar>:echo<CR>
" Press F4 to toggle highlighting on/off, and show current value.
:noremap <F4> :set hlsearch! hlsearch?<CR>
vim -p file1 file2 file3then use 'tg' to go to the next tab
Open a grep search of files as tabs in vim
vim -p `fgrep -l cust_function core/*.php`This would search for 'cust_function' in the dir core for php files
Vimdiff - visual character level diff from cmd line
vimdiff is much nicer to look at if you have to understand merging files on the cmd line.
if you migrate from
line by line without checking white space (so ignore tabs/spaces which can change with editors and versioning)
diff -w filea.php fileb.phpfiles side by side if you need to see context of more than a couple of changes
diff -wy filea.php fileb.phpIn this view you can scroll up and down but right edge gets cut, you can see marks in middle of page
| different
> change to right version
< change to left version
But those two show only lines. Vimdiff shows colours to show character changes and move around in a visual way
vimdiff filea.php fileb.phpAnd if you add this to ~/.vimrc you dont see the white space changes which is nice.
set diffopt+=iwhiteWhen in vimdiff you can move between windows and also which is nice, push and pull changes between versions.
So move to change "dp" pushes change from left to right side. The other way "do" pulls it from right to left
To switch windows in vimdiff or to navigate windows in vimdiff or to change windows in vimdiff try the following: The ":vertical" command can be inserted before another command that splits a window.
MOVING BETWEEN WINDOWS
CTRL-W h move to the window on the left CTRL-W j move to the window below
CTRL-W k move to the window above
CTRL-W l move to the window on the right CTRL-W t move to the TOP window
CTRL-W b move to the BOTTOM window
Moving windows
CTRL-W K move window to the upper
CTRL-W H move window to the far left
CTRL-W J move window to the bottom CTRL-W L move window to the far right
Have Vim jump to the last position when reopening a file
if has("autocmd")
au BufReadPost * if line("'\"") > 0 && line("'\"") <= line("$")
\| exe "normal! g'\"" | endif
endif
Auto complete comment block lines.
" In edit mode
" #b<return>
" type text
" #e<return>
:ab #b /************************************************
:ab #e ************************************************/
:ab #l /*----------------------------------------------*/
Show hidden characters, leading and tailing white space with
:set listThen you can see if you have lots of white space as $ will be on end of lines
Next you can run a zap trailing white space
:1,$s/[ <tab>]*$//and off with
:set nolist
source: http://www.oualline.com/vim-cook.html
Not quite vim but useful
You can get a sort of auto complete from your history file. So for examplecd PageUp
changes to
cd /file/path/i/used/earlier
or if your jumping around
cd /file/path/PageUpPageUp
becomes the last bit
cd /file/path/i/used/before/that
Change it here:
vim /etc/inputrc
Then uncomment the lines for using PageUp and PageDown to fill the rest of your cmd propt from your history
# alternate mappings for “page up” and “page down” to search the history
#”e[5~”: history-search-backward
#”e[6~”: history-search-forward
