One technique that’s common (especially in older editors) is called a split buffer. Basically, you “break” the text into everything before the cursor and everything after the cursor. Everything before goes at the beginning of the buffer. Everything after goes at the end of the buffer. When the user types in text, it goes into … Read more
There are two great vim plugins for this. ctrlp: Written in pure VimL Works pretty much everywhere Supports custom finders for improved performance Most popular fuzzy search plugin for Vim Command-T: Written in C, VimL and Ruby Fast out of the box Requires +ruby support in Vim Recommends Vim version >= 7.3 EDIT: I use … Read more
Adding to Greg Hewgill’s answer, you can use q: to open the command-line window, where you have any Vim editing power at your hand.
You can select a region and type `C-u M-| command RET’, and it replaces the region with the command output in the same buffer due to the interactive prefix argument of shell-command-on-region.
You can try ViSimulator for Notepad++, which may meet your requests in somewhat. it is a plug-in for notepad++, which make it possible to edit as vi/vim in notepad++. ViSimulator simulates/emulates most frequently-used vi/vim commands to provide more powerful editing capability for notepad++. As the description from the site, some commands it supports: 0: move … Read more
try this… Large Text File Viewer By the way, it is free 🙂 But, I think you should ask this on serverfault.com instead
Try d0. 0 denotes the beginning of the line.
For those who arrived on this question using Visual Studio 2013 or above, the feature is built right into the program. Just use AltUp and AltDown to move the line with your cursor—or the selected lines—up and down. If you wish to rebind it in Tools > Options > Environment > Keyboard, the keys are … Read more
glogg could also be considered, for a different usage: Caveat (reported by Simon Tewsi in the comments, Feb. 2013) One caveat – has two search functions, Main Search and Quick Find. The lower one, which I assume is Quick Find, is at least an order of magnitude slower than the upper one, which is fast.
Escape puts you into command mode; i takes you back out.