The Path to Zen » vim http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog Jing Xue's Weblog Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:40:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Retab files using vim http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2008/11/02/retab-files-using-vim/ http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2008/11/02/retab-files-using-vim/#comments Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:44:33 +0000 Jing Xue http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/?p=173 Use tabs as much as possible:
vim -u NONE -c "set noet" -c 'retab! 4' -c wq filename
Use spaces as much as possible:
vim -u NONE -c "set et" -c 'retab! 4' -c wq filename

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Then like everyone else I have had to get by with the Eclipse viplugin for quite a while, but that’s kind of like… well, three thin slices of turkey ham for lunch for a meat lover. On top of that, the new provisioning system and the countless new plugins bundled in Ganymede has driven me crazy (OK take a deep breath and stop ranting…).

Just a couple of days ago, I decided to give the latest 1.4.2 release another shot. Well, what do you know, I was up and running in no time. It’s the best of both worlds – vim’s powerful editing and Eclipse’s powerful tooling.

I’m also enjoying the bonus that it works just fine even with vim in terminal mode. So I can just ssh to my box at work and start coding away, without having to suffer from VNC or remote X over a slow VPN.

]]> http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2008/10/22/eclipse-vim-eclim/feed/ 0 toggle options more efficiently http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2004/01/27/toggle-options-more-efficiently/ http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2004/01/27/toggle-options-more-efficiently/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2004 02:29:42 +0000 Jing Xue http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2004/01/27/toggle-options-more-efficiently/ One useful yet often overlooked way to toggle an option is
:set {option}!

The good thing about it is you don’t have to figure out whether to use “no” in front of the option name. E.g., You can keep doing “set wrap!” (ideally with command history), instead of keeping jumping back and forth between “set wrap” and “set nowrap”. Also when you want to map this command, only one mapping is necessary.

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Will Fiveash started the thread by asking how to see marks on left hand side of a window. A couple of users pointed him to the showmarks plugin, which is the best mark plugin so far, but with one caveat that any mark made on line 1 isn’t shown. Salman Halim pointed out the reason:

“There is no way to remove marks in Vim; the script simulates the removal
of a mark by setting it to line 1 and just not displaying signs for any
marks that map to line 1. Not a bug; more a way to allow the user to not
be stuck looking at marks that they don’t find relevant.”

Tim Chase then proposed that marks could be removed by removing the line bearing the mark and restoring the line. Antoine J. Mechelynck also proposed to create a new line, move the mark there, and delete the line along with the mark. He also pointed out that the ‘modified’ status can be saved and restored around either methods him and Chase proposed to avoid the buffer being marked modified.

As an (almost) conclusion to this discussion, Charles E. Cambell, Jr. posted a patch that actually implements a ‘markclear’ function.

]]> http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2004/01/13/about-marks/feed/ 0 Intellisense in Vim – Finally! http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2004/01/12/intellisense-in-vim-finally/ http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2004/01/12/intellisense-in-vim-finally/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2004 03:29:16 +0000 Jing Xue http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2004/01/12/intellisense-in-vim-finally/ If you are both a Vimmer who can’t live without ‘h,j,k,l’, and a Java programmer who has always missed the nice intellisense in all those IDE’s, now you can have both! There are things left desirable for sure, but the Intellisense for Vim rocks already with the initial 1.0 version!

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The DirDiff plugin(1.0) I downloaded from
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=102
doesn't seem to replace the path separators for files in sub directories (i.e. not directly under the directories being diff'ed).

I hacked it a bit to make it work. Still trying to contact William Lee, the original author...

See below for the patch for 1.0.

PLAIN TEXT
CODE:
  1. 688,689c688,691
  2. <function! Copy(fileFrom, fileTo)
  3. <echo "Copy from " . a:fileFrom . " to " . a:fileTo
  4. ---
  5. > function! Copy(fileFromOrig, fileToOrig)
  6. > let fileFrom = substitute(a:fileFromOrig, '/', s:sep, 'g')
  7. > let fileTo = substitute(a:fileToOrig, '/', s:sep, 'g')
  8. > echo "Copy from " . fileFrom . " to " . fileTo
  9. 701c703
  10. <let copycmd = copycmd . " "".a:fileFrom."" "".a:fileTo."""
  11. ---
  12. > let copycmd = copycmd . " "".fileFrom."" "".fileTo."""
  13. 709c711
  14. <let copydircmd = copydircmd . " "".a:fileFrom."" "".a:fileTo."""
  15. ---
  16. > let copydircmd = copydircmd . " "".fileFrom."" "".fileTo."""
  17. 712c714
  18. <if (isdirectory(a:fileFrom))
  19. ---
  20. > if (isdirectory(fileFrom))
  21. 718c720
  22. <echo "Can't copy from " . a:fileFrom . " to " . a:fileTo
  23. ---
  24. > echo "Can't copy from " . fileFrom . " to " . fileTo
  25. 742,743c744,746
  26. <function! Delete(fileFrom)
  27. <echo "Deleting from " . a:fileFrom
  28. ---
  29. > function! Delete(fileFromOrig)
  30. > let fileFrom = substitute(a:fileFromOrig, '/', s:sep, 'g')
  31. > echo "Deleting from " . fileFrom
  32. 751c754
  33. <if (isdirectory(a:fileFrom))
  34. ---
  35. > if (isdirectory(fileFrom))
  36. 773c776
  37. <let delcmd = delcmd ." "".a:fileFrom."""
  38. ---
  39. > let delcmd = delcmd ." "".fileFrom."""
  40. 776c779
  41. <echo "Can't delete " . a:fileFrom
  42. ---
  43. > echo "Can't delete " . fileFrom

]]> http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2004/01/12/39/feed/ 1 The power of ‘gf’ http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2003/12/22/the-power-of-gf/ http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2003/12/22/the-power-of-gf/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:49:14 +0000 Jing Xue http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2003/12/22/the-power-of-gf/ 'gf' actually supports opening any URL under the cursor, not only a local file path. For example, while the cursor is over "http://www.yahoo.com", typing 'gf' would open the html code for the Yahoo home page in Vim.

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CODE:
  1. ctrl-w f
  2. :h ctrl-w_f

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CODE:
  1. :h list
  2. :h listchars

]]> http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2003/11/25/show-the-non-printable-characters/feed/ 0 quick buffer switching http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2003/11/04/quick-buffer-switching/ http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2003/11/04/quick-buffer-switching/#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2003 20:03:42 +0000 Jing Xue http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2003/11/04/quick-buffer-switching/ I have always used
:e #
to switch back and forth between two buffers, but evidently CTRL-^ is quicker.

]]> http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2003/11/04/quick-buffer-switching/feed/ 0 Open a file in an existing gvim instance http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2003/10/24/open-a-file-in-an-existing-gvim-instance/ http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2003/10/24/open-a-file-in-an-existing-gvim-instance/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:05:21 +0000 Jing Xue http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2003/10/24/open-a-file-in-an-existing-gvim-instance/ (David Fishburn)

@set vim_instance=GVIM
@rem Override it if necessary
if %2. NEQ . set vim_instance=%2
start gvim.exe --servername %vim_instance% --remote-silent %1

]]> http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2003/10/24/open-a-file-in-an-existing-gvim-instance/feed/ 0 Indent without leaving insert mode http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2003/10/17/indent-without-leaving-insert-mode/ http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2003/10/17/indent-without-leaving-insert-mode/#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:54:00 +0000 Jing Xue http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2003/10/17/indent-without-leaving-insert-mode/ >, and CTRL-O ]]> Either of the following:

1. CTRL-T, and CTRL-D (:h i_CTRL-T to see some more interesting usage of those two keys.)
2. CTRL-O >>, and CTRL-O <<

]]> http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2003/10/17/indent-without-leaving-insert-mode/feed/ 0 ‘gv’ reselects selections http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2003/10/14/gv-reselects-selections/ http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2003/10/14/gv-reselects-selections/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2003 15:09:13 +0000 Jing Xue http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2003/10/14/gv-reselects-selections/ I definitely need to memorize this tip - always felt frustrated having to go back and do the whole selecting again!

(Bowie Bailey)
You can also use 'gv' to reselect the previously highlighted region.
This way you can do multiple operations on the same region without
having to manually re-select it each time.

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