Vim on Raveen Kumar

Vim not retaining file and command history

Fri, 19 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This solved the problem.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/43033/what-would-cause-vim-not-to-retain-command-history

Check presence and rights for ~/.viminfo. Usually that’s it which keeps command history, file editing positions, etc. One possible case is that this file belongs to root.

Text Editors

Sun, 19 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Flying with vim

Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

vimtutor :help :help <command> :helpgrep text https://vim-adventures.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi

Why ggVG?

gg - go to first line V - Select Current line and dont exit select G - Go to last line

Because of this:

Vim run commands

Opening more than one file

In vertical split: gvim -O file1 file2

In horizontal split: gvim -o file1 file2

Buffers

:b :ls Add all files in a folder to buffer gvim *

Diff

:windo diffthis gvimdiff file1 file2

Vifm

Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

:sync

Filter or find files under current directory

:!find -L -name "*.csv" %u | grep "72\|82" | grep si

Go to shell

s

Diff 2 files, between 2 panes

:diff

Change dirs

:cd or :cd ~ or :cd $HOME  " change to home directory.  
:cd - " go to the last visited directory.  
:cd ~/dir  " change directory to ~/dir.  
:cd /curr/dir /other/dir  " change directory of the current pane to /curr/dir and directory of the other pane to /other/dir.
:cd! /dir  " same as :cd /dir /dir.  
:cds 
:cds[!] pattern string " navigate to path obtained by substituting first match in current path. Available flags: i - ignore case, I - don't ignore case
:cds[!]/pattern/string/[flags] " same as above, but with :substitute-like syntax.

Vim

Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

You mean emacs?

Plugins

[2022-11-27 Sun] Ctrl-y in insert mode to insert text from above and Ctrl-e to insert from below

file:///home/raveensrk/my_repos/raveenkumar.xyz/Blog/linux_and_programming/vim-ctrl-y-in-insert-mode.mov

[2022-11-27 Sun] Map movement to meta keys

[2022-11-27 Sun] Vim build options

Working with CSV files in Vim

CSV files in vim

<2022-08-20 Sat> Copy pasting from and to system clipboard in Vim

Normal Mode / Visual Mode:

Pasting from system clipboard: "+p Copy to system clipboard: "+y

vim auto complete words from dictionary

Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

<C-x><C-k>

Thoughts on vim and emacs

Sun, 27 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I will keep using this for 1 more year.

Switch to vim when required.

“A blade can cut a hair, but an axe can cut a tree. But a blade can’t cut a tree and an axe can’t cut a hair.”

Vim goto file under cursor

Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Vim goto file under cursor

Usually gf takes you to the file under cursor. But there is also gF. When a number followed by non file path character occurs it takes you to that line number.

Example:

./2022-01-25-vim-goto-file-under-cursor.md:3

Vim modeline

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Vim modeline settings

:help modeline

https://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/oldhelp/vim/modelines.html

modelines allow you to set variables specific to a file. By default, the first and last five lines are read by vim for variable settings. For example, if you put the following in the last line of a C program, you would get a textwidth of 60 chars when editing that file:

/* vim: tw=60 ts=2: */

# vim: set nowrap:

The modelines variable sets the number of lines (at the beginning and end of each file) vim checks for initializations.

Vim append yank

Mon, 27 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Vim append yank

Append vim yank

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/380379/how-to-add-lines-to-a-vim-register-without-overwriting-it

If you want to append to a named register use it’s corresponding upper case character. i.e. In your example:

"ayy
"Ayy
"ap