Efficient Editing With vim

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Post by ninjac0der » Fri, Sep 25, 2009, 4:14 PM UTC

Efficient Editing With vim
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Re: Efficient Editing With vim

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Post by 10ren » Fri, Sep 25, 2009, 4:40 PM UTC

Cool feature I discovered today, for multi-file project navigation:

  :tag yourMethodNameHere

Tab-completion works, so typing ":tag yourM", and pressing tab repeatedly cycles through all the tags with that prefix (you need to have created the tags file with ctags first).

Re: Efficient Editing With vim

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Post by mustpax » Fri, Sep 25, 2009, 4:56 PM UTC

10ren wrote: post #2

Cool feature I discovered today, for multi-file project navigation: :tag yourMethodNameHere Tab-completion works, so typing ":tag yourM", and pressing tab repeatedly cycles through all the tags with that prefix (you need to have created the tags file with ctags first).

Tag jumping is also cool: Ctrl-] will jump to the tag under the cursor and pushes the current location on the tag. Ctrl-T pops the tag stack and moves you back to your previous location. Good for checking the definition of a function and jumping back.

Re: Efficient Editing With vim

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Post by jballanc » Fri, Sep 25, 2009, 5:35 PM UTC

See, this is one of the things I love about Vim: there's always something new to learn! Somehow I had overlooked "K" to go to man pages. The other thing I love about Vim is the excellent documentation! I wanted to know more about "K" so I typed ":help K" and learned that, for example, if you're editing Ruby and would rather use 'ri' in place of 'man', all you have to do is add ":set keywordprg=ri" to your .vimrc (and if you have the ruby.vim files, it's already done for you).

Re: Efficient Editing With vim

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Post by daok » Fri, Sep 25, 2009, 5:54 PM UTC

I think it's the first time that I want to install vim to try it. As a Windows user, I always found NotePad++ and other text editor an easier choice but I can now see some powerfull utilities to vim now. Very clear article.

Re: Efficient Editing With vim

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Post by scott_s » Fri, Sep 25, 2009, 5:57 PM UTC

I feel silly for only recently discovering tabs in vim.

  :tabnew file

Opens up a new tab,

  :tabn

Goes to the next tab, and

  :tabp

Goes to the previous tab. Works great in both gui and non-gui mode.

Re: Efficient Editing With vim

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Post by lanstein » Fri, Sep 25, 2009, 6:03 PM UTC

Amazingly, this is the first I've heard of fx/tx/Fx. How ridiculously awesome.

Re: Efficient Editing With vim

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Post by mrshoe » Fri, Sep 25, 2009, 6:07 PM UTC

Nooooo all of the secrets of our vim cult revealed in one easy-to-read document! Vim is hard, people! Trust me. You're not smart enough to use it.

:-P

Re: Efficient Editing With vim

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Post by DannoHung » Fri, Sep 25, 2009, 6:17 PM UTC

scott_s wrote: post #6

I feel silly for only recently discovering tabs in vim. :tabnew file Opens up a new tab, :tabn Goes to the next tab, and :tabp Goes to the previous tab. Works great in both gui and non-gui mode.

gt and gT in command mode also do next tab and previous tab

Re: Efficient Editing With vim

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Post by grosales » Fri, Sep 25, 2009, 6:31 PM UTC

Pretty cool, I was learning Vim through "A Byte of Vim" at http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Vim