Vimways: Runtime hackery
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I’ve written another new article over on Vimways for the 2018 Vim advent calendar. This is a followup to my previous article, adding some more detail about ways to use Vim’s runtime directory structure.
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Vimways: From .vimrc to .vim
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I’ve written a new article over on Vimways for the 2018 Vim advent calendar. It’s about converting a long and unwieldy .vimrc into a ~/.vim runtime directory.
Vim character info
Vim will show you the decimal, octal, and hex index of the character under the cursor if you type ga in normal mode. Keying this on an ASCII a character yields the following in the status bar: <a> 97, Hex … Continue reading
Special characters in Vim
Particularly when editing documents for human consumption rather than code, it’s often necessary to enter special characters into a document that can’t otherwise be produced by a single key press: Letters with diacritical marks like ä, é, and ô — … Continue reading
Advanced Vim registers
Registers in Vim are best thought of as scratch spaces for text, some of which are automatically filled by the editor in response to certain actions. Learning how to use registers fluently has a lot of subtle benefits, although it … Continue reading
Start Vim with splits
If you want to call Vim to edit more than one file, you can add an option to the command line to open all of the buffers in split windows on startup: -O — Open all buffers in vertically split … Continue reading
Vim annoyances
Like any highly interactive application, Vim has a few annoyances even for experienced users. Most of these consist of the editor doing something unexpected, particularly with motions or the behavior of regular expressions and registers. This is often due to … Continue reading
Vim misconceptions
Vim isn’t the best tool for every task, and there’s no reason you shouldn’t stick to your GUI IDE if you know it like the back of your hand and are highly productive in it. The very basic best practices … Continue reading
Vim eval feature
Using your .vimrc file on many machines with different versions and feature sets for Vim is generally not too much of a problem if you apply a little care in making a gracefully degrading .vimrc. In most cases, using the … Continue reading
Advanced Vim macros
Vim’s massive command set in both normal and command mode makes the concept of a macro especially powerful. Most Vim users, if they ever use macros at all, will perhaps quickly record an edit to one line, starting with qq … Continue reading