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@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ added every day. Things about to be added can be found here:
---
#### [Basics](#basics-1)
- [Buffers, windows, tabs?](#buffers-windows-tabs)
- [Active, loaded, listed, named buffers?](#active-loaded-listed-named-buffers)
- [Mappings?](#mappings)
@@ -19,12 +20,14 @@ added every day. Things about to be added can be found here:
- [Colorschemes?](#colorschemes)
#### [Usage](#usage-1)
- [Getting help offline](#getting-help-offline)
- [Getting help online](#getting-help-online)
- [Managing plugins](#managing-plugins)
- [Block insert](#block-insert)
#### [Tips](#tips-1)
- [Saner behavior of n and N](#saner-behavior-of-n-and-n)
- [Quickly move current line](#quickly-move-current-line)
- [Quickly add empty lines](#quickly-add-empty-lines)
@@ -35,20 +38,24 @@ added every day. Things about to be added can be found here:
- [Don't lose selection when shifting sidewards](#dont-lose-selection-when-shifting-sidewards)
#### [Debugging](#debugging-1)
- [General tips](#general-tips)
- [Profiling startup time](#profiling-startup-time)
- [Profiling at runtime](#profiling-at-runtime)
#### [Miscellaneous](#miscellaneous-1)
- [Vim distributions](#vim-distributions)
#### [Quirks](#quirks-1)
- [Newline used for NUL](#newline-used-for-nul)
- [Bracketed paste (or why do I have to set 'paste' all the time?)](#bracketed-paste-or-why-do-i-have-to-set-paste-all-the-time)
#### [List of colorschemes](#list-of-colorschemes-1)
#### [List of plugins](#list-of-plugins-1)
- [Alignment](#alignment)
- [Code completion](#code-completion)
- [Commenters](#commenters)
@@ -172,9 +179,11 @@ Putting it in a nutshell, this solves our problem:
The mapleader is simply a placeholder than can be used with custom mappings and
is set to `\` by default.
```viml
nnoremap <leader>h :helpgrep<right>
```
This mapping is triggered by `\h`.
You can change the mapleader like this:
@@ -201,18 +210,18 @@ Vim provides 10 types of registers:
| Type | Character | Filled | Contains text from.. |
|------|-----------|--------|----------------------|
| Unnamed | `"` | implicitely | Last yank or deletion. (`d`, `c`, `s`, `x`, `y`) |
| Unnamed | `"` | implicitly | Last yank or deletion. (`d`, `c`, `s`, `x`, `y`) |
| Numbered | `0` to `9` | implicitly | Register `0`: Last yank. Registers `1`: Last deletion. Register `2`: Second last deletion. And so on. Think of registers `1`-`9` as a read-only [queue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queue_(abstract_data_type)) with 9 elements. |
| Small delete | `-` | implicitely | Last deletion that was less than one line. |
| Named | `a` to `z`, `A` to `Z` | explicitely | For your own use. If you yank to register `a`, you replace its text. If you yank to register `A`, you append to the text in register `a`. |
| Read-only | `:`, `.`, `%` | implicitely | Register `:`: Last command. Register `.`: Last inserted text. Register `%`: Current filename. |
| Alternate buffer | `#` | implicitely | Most of the time the previously visited buffer of the current window. See `:h alternate-file` |
| Expression | `=` | explicitely | Evaluation of the VimL expression that was yanked. E.g. do this in insert mode: `<c-r>=5+5<cr>` and "10" will be inserted in the buffer. |
| Selection and Drop | `+`, `*`, `~` | implicitely | `*` and `+` are the [clipboard](#clipboard) registers. Register `~`: From last drag'n'drop. |
| Black hole | `_` | explicitely | Use this register if you don't want any other registers implicitely affected. E.g. `"_dd` deletes the current line without affecting registers `"`, `1`, `+`, `*`. |
| Last search pattern | `/` | implicitely | Last pattern used with `/`, `?`, `:global`, etc. |
| Small delete | `-` | implicitly | Last deletion that was less than one line. |
| Named | `a` to `z`, `A` to `Z` | explicitly | For your own use. If you yank to register `a`, you replace its text. If you yank to register `A`, you append to the text in register `a`. |
| Read-only | `:`, `.`, `%` | implicitly | Register `:`: Last command. Register `.`: Last inserted text. Register `%`: Current filename. |
| Alternate buffer | `#` | implicitly | Most of the time the previously visited buffer of the current window. See `:h alternate-file` |
| Expression | `=` | explicitly | Evaluation of the VimL expression that was yanked. E.g. do this in insert mode: `<c-r>=5+5<cr>` and "10" will be inserted in the buffer. |
| Selection and Drop | `+`, `*`, `~` | implicitly | `*` and `+` are the [clipboard](#clipboard) registers. Register `~`: From last drag'n'drop. |
| Black hole | `_` | explicitly | Use this register if you don't want any other registers implicitly affected. E.g. `"_dd` deletes the current line without affecting registers `"`, `1`, `+`, `*`. |
| Last search pattern | `/` | implicitly | Last pattern used with `/`, `?`, `:global`, etc. |
There are numerous exceptions when registers get implicitely filled, so be sure
There are numerous exceptions when registers get implicitly filled, so be sure
to read `:h registers`.
Yank with `y` and paste with `p`/`P`.
@@ -253,9 +262,11 @@ See `:h {event}` for a quick overview of all available events and `:h
autocmd-events-abc` for more details.
A typical example would be setting filetype-specific settings:
```viml
autocmd FileType ruby setlocal shiftwidth=2 softtabstop=2 comments-=:#
```
But how does a buffer even know that it contains Ruby code? Because another
autocmd detected it as that and set the filetype accordingly which again
triggered the `FileType` event.
@@ -267,9 +278,11 @@ filetypes under the sun.
If you're brave enough, have a look at it: `:e $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim`. Search
for "Ruby" and you'll find that Vim simply uses the file extension `.rb` to
detect Ruby files:
```viml
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.rb,*.rbw setf ruby
```
The `BufNewFile` and `BufRead` events in this case are hardcoded in the C
sources of Vim and get emitted everytime you open a file via `:e` and similar
commands. Afterwards all the hundreds of filetypes from `filetype.vim` are
@@ -281,7 +294,7 @@ customization.
#### Quickfix and location lists?
Everytime an action has to return a list of locations, _quickfix_ or _location_
Every time an action has to return a list of locations, _quickfix_ or _location_
lists can be used. In this case a location is a file, a line number and
optionally a column.
@@ -292,7 +305,7 @@ The big advantage over just putting that stuff in an empty buffer is that you
get a nice uniform interface for browsing the entries.
At all time there's only one quickfix list, but every window can has its own
location list. Both type of lists _feel_ the same, but use slighly different
location list. Both type of lists _feel_ the same, but use slightly different
commands for navigation.
Most common commands:
@@ -330,9 +343,11 @@ Colorschemes are the way to style your Vim. Vim consists of many components and
each of those can be customized with different colors for the foreground,
background and a few other attributes like bold text etc. They can be set like
this:
```viml
:highlight Normal ctermbg=1 guibg=red
```
This would paint the background of the editor red. See `:h :highlight` for more
information.
@@ -341,7 +356,7 @@ So, colorschemes are mostly a collection of `:highlight` commands.
Actually, most colorschemes are really 2 colorschemes! The example above sets
colors via `ctermbg` and `guibg`. The former definition will only be used if Vim
was started in a terminal emulator, e.g. xterm. The latter will be used in
graphical environements like gVim.
graphical environments like gVim.
If you ever happen to use a certain colorscheme in Vim running in a terminal
emulator and the colors don't look like the colors in the screenshot at all,
@@ -440,9 +455,11 @@ after the end of each line, do this: `<c-v>3j$Atext<esc>`.
Sometime you need to place the cursor somewhere after the end of the current
line. You can't do that by default, but you can set the `virtualedit` option:
```viml
set virtualedit=all
```
Afterwards `$10l` or `90|` work even after the end of the line.
See `:h blockwise-examples` for more info. It might seem complicated at first,
@@ -459,6 +476,7 @@ The direction of `n` and `N` depends on whether `/` or `?` was used for
searching forward or backward respectively. This is pretty confusing to me.
If you want `n` to always search forward and `N` backward, use this:
```viml
nnoremap <expr> n 'Nn'[v:searchforward]
nnoremap <expr> N 'nN'[v:searchforward]
@@ -467,16 +485,19 @@ nnoremap <expr> N 'nN'[v:searchforward]
#### Quickly move current line
Sometimes I need a quick way to move the current line above or below:
```viml
nnoremap [e :<c-u>execute 'move -1-'. v:count1<cr>
nnoremap ]e :<c-u>execute 'move +'. v:count1<cr>
```
These mappings also take a count, so `2]e` moves the current line 2 lines below.
#### Quickly add empty lines
This is surely no must-have, but I prefer the following mappings over
`o<esc>`/`O<esc>`:
```viml
nnoremap [<space> :put! =''<cr>
nnoremap ]<space> :put =''<cr>
@@ -489,9 +510,11 @@ it in the cmdline-window. Hit `<cr>` when you're done editing for setting the
register.
I often use this to correct typos I did while recording a macro.
```viml
nnoremap <leader>m :<c-u><c-r>='let @'. v:register .' = '. string(getreg(v:register))<cr><c-f><left>
```
Use it like this `<leader>m` or `"q<leader>m`.
#### Quickly jump to header or source file
@@ -499,6 +522,7 @@ Use it like this `<leader>m` or `"q<leader>m`.
This technique can probably be applied to many filetypes. It sets _file marks_
(see `:h marks`) when leaving a source or header file, so you can quickly jump
back to the last accessed one by using `'C` or `'H` (see `:h 'A`).
```viml
autocmd BufLeave *.{c,cpp} mark C
autocmd BufLeave *.h mark H
@@ -510,6 +534,7 @@ viminfo?` includes `:h viminfo-'`.
#### Quickly change font size in GUI
I think this was taken from tpope's config:
```viml
command! Bigger :let &guifont = substitute(&guifont, '\d\+$', '\=submatch(0)+1', '')
command! Smaller :let &guifont = substitute(&guifont, '\d\+$', '\=submatch(0)-1', '')
@@ -519,6 +544,7 @@ command! Smaller :let &guifont = substitute(&guifont, '\d\+$', '\=submatch(0)-1'
I like to use a block cursor in normal mode and i-beam cursor in insert mode.
Also when using tmux in the middle.
```viml
if empty($TMUX)
let &t_SI = "\<Esc>]50;CursorShape=1\x7"
@@ -528,6 +554,7 @@ else
let &t_EI = "\<Esc>Ptmux;\<Esc>\<Esc>]50;CursorShape=0\x7\<Esc>\\"
endif
```
This simply tells Vim to print a certain sequence of characters ([escape
sequence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_sequence)) when entering/leaving
insert mode. The underlying terminal will process and evaluate it.
@@ -546,10 +573,12 @@ sidewards. Unfortunately you immediately lose the selection afterwards.
You can use `gv` to reselect the last selection (see `:h gv`), thus you can work
around it like this:
```viml
xnoremap < <gv
xnoremap > >gv
```
Now you can use `>>>>>` on your visual selection without any problems.
**NOTE**: The same can be achieved using `.`, which repeats the last change.
@@ -825,3 +854,4 @@ Also see [fuzzy finders](#fuzzy-finders).
- [startify](https://github.com/mhinz/vim-startify)
- [surround](https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround)
- [unicode.vim](https://github.com/chrisbra/unicode.vim)