Vim

A complicated yet extremely powerful and efficient modal Text editor.

I’m currently using Neovim, which is a hard-fork of the original vim project for implementing aggressive code refactoring, reasonable defaults, and other new functionalities like Language Server Protocol.

Topics

• Buffers
• Movements
• Splits

Books

• Practical Vim by Drew Neil (http://vimcasts.org)

Documentations

Cheat sheet

• http://michael.peopleofhonoronly.com/vim/

General

• http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_documentation
• vim cookbook
• http://www.rayninfo.co.uk/vimtips.html
• http://vimcasts.org/ - Vim screen cast by Drew Neil
• http://vimeo.com/user1690209 - vim screen casts by Derek Wyatt.
• http://www.openvim.com/
• http://vim.runpaint.org/toc/ - Vim recipes
• http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html
• https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/Support/KB/Docs/ViTextEditorTutorial
• http://wiki.kldp.org/wiki.php/ViEditorTips
• http://www.joinc.co.kr/modules/moniwiki/wiki.php/Site/Vim
  • 윤상배:vim을 사용하자
• Smylers:Power Vim Usage
• http://blog.danielfischer.com/2010/11/19/a-starting-guide-to-vim-from-textmate/
• http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressively/
• Learning Vim in 2014: Vim as Language
• Vim Text Objects: The Definitive Guide
• Vim’s Big Idea

Setup

General

• http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/coming-home-to-vim/ - an extensive post about vim and its settings and plugins.
• http://tottinge.blogsome.com/use-vim-like-a-pro - A good tutorial + setup guide.
• http://nvie.com/posts/how-i-boosted-my-vim/ - a pretty good guide to setting up vim.
• http://mirnazim.org/writings/vim-plugins-i-use/

Colorschemes

• http://vimcasts.org/episodes/creating-colorschemes-for-vim/
• http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized

Plugins

• http://vimawesome.com
• http://stevelosh.com/blog/2011/09/writing-vim-plugins
• vundle: vundle
• NERD tree: The NERD tree : A tree explorer plugin for navigating the filesystem - Essential!
• Ultisnip: https://github.com/SirVer/ultisnips
• Fugitive: http://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive - a Git wrapper.
• Surround.vim: vim surround
• Airline

For Python

• http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/05/24/vim-as-python-ide/
• http://sontek.net/turning-vim-into-a-modern-python-ide
• http://unlogic.co.uk/posts/vim-python-ide.html

For writing

• Using Vim for Academic Writing
• Recreating Ulysses with VIM

Tips

• Conceal
  • http://b4winckler.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/using-the-conceal-vim-feature-with-latex/
• Diff
  • `:vert diffs xxx` opens xxx in the diff mode.
  • `dg` (diff get) and `dp` (diff put) are the most basic commands.
  • `diffthis` changes the mode of current buffer as the diff mode; `diffoff` turns off diffmode.
  • http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/diff.html
• Indentation
  • http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_stop_auto_indenting
  • help text-objects
  • >>, \<\<, 6>> (indent 6 lines)
  • use ‘.’ and ‘u’ to indent more or undo.
  • ‘gv’ to select previous visual selection.
  • >{motion}, \<{motion}
  • {movement}. for instance G will indent towards the end.
  • =i} will indent inside bracket.
• 한글 자판에서도 커맨드 입력을 가능하게
  • set noimd
  • set imi=1
  • set ims=-1
• movements
  • Youtube: Vim Navigation Commands
  • %: parenthesis
  • H,M,L
  • Change list and jump list: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/using-the-changelist-and-jumplist/
    • g; : move to the previous position, g, : move forward through the changelist.
• Registers
  • Vim registers: The basics and beyond
  • "": default register
  • "+: clipboard register
  • "=: expression register
  • "0-9: last yanked
  • ":: the most recent executed command
  • Pasting in the insert mode: CTRL + r then press the register id. Let Vim Do the Typing
• Search & replace
  • :g/^$/d: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/706076/vim-delete-blank-lines (or g/^\s*$/d)
• Spell
  • set spell
  • ]s
  • z : show suggestions, 1z : take the first suggestion.
  • set spelllang=en_gb
  • help spellfile
  • zg: learn the word, zug: remove from the dic.
  • nmap silent leaders :set spell!CR
• tabs
  • gt, gT : move around.
• Thesaurus
  • http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/12/vi-and-vim-editor-3-steps-to-enable-thesaurus-option/
• visual block mode
  • c change selection (delete and switch to insert mode)
  • I insert in front of cursor
  • A append after cursor
  • r replace every character in selection
  • d delete selection
  • o toggle cursor to opposite corner
• Wrap
  • command! -nargs=* Wrap set wrap linebreak nolist
  • :%norm vipJ

Articles

• http://j.mearie.org/post/1466244802/adding-line-numbers-in-vim , http://j.mearie.org/post/1474860813/vim-vi-and-their-interfaces
• http://kevinw.github.com/2010/12/15/this-is-your-brain-on-vim/
• http://www.norfolkwinters.com/vim-creep
• Seven habits of effective text editing
• Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim

Fun

• Memes
• http://vimgolf.com/ - see also Code golf
• How to exit vim

Tutorials

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r6yzFEXajQ

Mastering the Vim Language

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlR5gYd6um0
• Vim: Tutorial on Editing, Navigation, and File Management - a good tutorial

(count) (operator) (text object / motion)

• “gUaW”: capitalize a word
• “d]m”: delete to start of next method