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However, for the grepping and general file searching stuff, wouldn't that be better done from the shell? I generally have both vim (either MacVim, or shell-vim) running, as well as a the command line sitting in a window right next to it.
What's the advantage of doing the searching inside vs. outside vim?
tags and cscope look excellent. However, for the grepping and general file searching stuff, wouldn't that be better done from the shell? I generally have both vim (either MacVim, or shell-vim) running, as well as a the command line sitting in a window right next to it. What's the advantage of doing the searching inside vs. outside vim?
This is much easier than searching in a terminal, noting the first filename (which may be buried in some directory), opening it in vim, then jumping/scrolling down to the relevant line.
I find VIM so difficult to get my head around. Emacs seems to make more sense.. is there any point in trying to grok VIM?
Most of my time in code is spent moving around, editing and refactoring. Vim fits that: "Normal" mode puts an entire keyboard of commands at my disposal for for moving around and editing - no need to press Control or something to say "watch out, I'm going to issue a command!" Of course I am - that's what I mainly do. If I actually want to type, I go into insert mode.
I have written the beginnings of a book to explain the power of Vim, if you'd like to check it out. I'd love any feedback anyone wants to give.
tags and cscope look excellent. However, for the grepping and general file searching stuff, wouldn't that be better done from the shell? I generally have both vim (either MacVim, or shell-vim) running, as well as a the command line sitting in a window right next to it. What's the advantage of doing the searching inside vs. outside vim?
tags and cscope look excellent. However, for the grepping and general file searching stuff, wouldn't that be better done from the shell? I generally have both vim (either MacVim, or shell-vim) running, as well as a the command line sitting in a window right next to it. What's the advantage of doing the searching inside vs. outside vim?
Although I would slightly change it to search upwards until finding a .git directory, and from there the recursive grep :)
Maybe somebody could help me to figure out how to save files properly with vim. I made a script that opens all the files I need. I call the script with: :source scriptname. Only problem is that the script works only if I open vim with 'vim' and not with 'sudo vim' (by the way, why is that?). But if I open with 'vim', then it give me problem when I try to save...
nnoremap q :mks!:qall!
alias vv=vim -S
I find VIM so difficult to get my head around. Emacs seems to make more sense.. is there any point in trying to grok VIM?
EDIT: Please, keep going if you really feel that vindictive.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Speaking as a longtime vim user, not if you already grok Emacs. The one really good reason I can think of is that vi is pretty much ubiquitous on *nix and might be better suited if you need a powerful editor which you can almost always expect to be there for you even over ssh.
I know this point has been beaten to death, but in that case you only need to know/grok vi, a significantly smaller subset of vim.
Under vi(1), the ctags example in the article is a constructive activity.
In the case of cscope, one needs to drive a development session from cscope then drop into vi to make edits.
> A word of caution first: there is no perfect symbol-based navigation for programming languages such as C++ or Java in vim, as vim doesn't perform any syntax analysis of the code. At least for Python, Vim's OmniCompletion does a reasonable job of figuring out function names: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/version7.html#new-omni...
tags and cscope look excellent. However, for the grepping and general file searching stuff, wouldn't that be better done from the shell? I generally have both vim (either MacVim, or shell-vim) running, as well as a the command line sitting in a window right next to it. What's the advantage of doing the searching inside vs. outside vim?