Close all viewports (split screens) in Vim at once
Use :qa for “quit all”. If you have unsaved buffers you’ll have to add a bang: :qa!.
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Execute a script directly within vim/mvim/gvim
You can do this in vim using the ! command. For instance to count the number of words in the current file you can do: :! wc % The % is replaced by the current filename. To run a script you could call the interpreter on the file – for instance if you are writing … Read more
how to copy by specifying line numbers in vi
yank those lines in register: :364,757yEnter if you want to copy those lines and paste to some certain line, t is your friend. for example: :364,757t2Enter will copy those lines to under 2nd line. if you want to copy them to right under your current line: :364,757t.Enter
How to setup Vi Editing Mode for zsh
bindkey -v is enough to enable vi mode in ZSH. If you are worried the setting will be overwritten by another plugin, put the setting at the bottom of your ~/.zshrc. After vi mode is enabled, you enter the “insert” mode by default. To enter “normal” mode, use Esc. And i or a to switch … Read more
Navigate to next conflict with vimdiff
You mean conflict markers such as <<<<<<<, =======, and >>>>>>> on merges to indicate that the automatic resolution failed?! You can use my ConflictMotions plugin for that; it provides ]x and [x mappings, ]= for navigation within a conflict, and even corresponding text objects ax and a=.
Prevent Vim from indenting line when typing a colon (:) in Python
Certain keys, when pressed, will trigger Vim’s indent feature, which will attempt to set the correct amount of indentation on the current line. (You can manually trigger this by typing == in normal mode.) You can change which keys trigger this behavior, but first you need to know what indenting mode is being used. First, … Read more
Is there a way to display a macro list similar to displaying your mappings in Vim?
In vim, the macros are just stored in registers. You can recall the content of any register and execute it as a macro (which is what the @ does). To see a list of what is in your registers, use :reg.
Omit ‘Pattern not found’ error message in Vim script
You can either use :silent or :silent! as a prefix to any command or you can add the ‘e’ option to the substitute, which is often easier. :%s/x/y/ge :silent! %s/x/y/g :silent %s/x/y/g For more information, see :help :silent :help :s_flags The information on the e flag is a few paragraphs down from the :s_flags help.
Vi/Vim restore opened files
You can map using :mksession and :source to a set of keys for easy saving and restoring. Here’s an example from my .vimrc that uses F2 and F3: map <F2> :mksession! ~/vim_session <cr> ” Quick write session with F2 map <F3> :source ~/vim_session <cr> ” And load session with F3
Change File Encoding to utf-8 via vim in a script
This is the simplest way I know of to do this easily from the command line: vim +”argdo se bomb | se fileencoding=utf-8 | w” $(find . -type f -name *.php) Or better yet if the number of files is expected to be pretty large: find . -type f -name *.php | xargs vim +”argdo … Read more