TL;DR Try using “*yy or “+yy to copy a line to your system’s clipboard. Full answer Be aware that copying/pasting from the system clipboard will not work if :echo has(‘clipboard’) returns 0. In this case, Vim is not compiled with the +clipboard feature and you’ll have to install a different version or recompile it. Some … Read more
:normal to the rescue: :%norm dw It basically replays the arguments as if you were typing them in normal (‘non-edit’) mode. From :help : :norm[al][!] {commands} Execute Normal mode commands {commands}. This makes it possible to execute Normal mode commands typed on the command-line. {commands} is executed like it is typed.
Here are a few tips that should definitely speed up ctrlp : let g:ctrlp_cache_dir = $HOME . ‘/.cache/ctrlp’ if executable(‘ag’) let g:ctrlp_user_command = ‘ag %s -l –nocolor -g “”‘ endif In the above example, the first option tells ctrlp to persist the cache in the configured location, so when you launch vim again, it will … Read more
As I myself am very curious about answers to your first question unfortunately I am not able to give you any good advice here. To at least give you an answer to your second question: This is the somewhat semi-automatic way I use to manually add missing or adjust changed declarations in out of sync … Read more
You can install aspell with Homebrew on OS X. brew info aspell lists supported languages. brew install aspell –lang=en,fi,jp aspell check opens a file in an interactive spell checker: for f in *.txt; do aspell check $f; done aspell list prints all unrecognized words: cat *.txt | aspell list | sort -u Learned words are … Read more
Use the showmarks plugin for VIM. It does just that.
What about s<C-r>0, this can be repeated with . s deletes the character under the curser and puts you into insert mode. <C-r>0 inserts register 0, which holds the yanked text. You can also use s and type foo manually, which is also repeatable with .
Edit 2020-01-23: Searched quickly and FYI saw that there’s another plugin that seems more VCS agnostic: https://github.com/mhinz/vim-signify There’s a new plugin that does this: vim-gitgutter. It puts the changes in the Vim gutter whenever you save the file. Here’s what it looks like in action:
There’s a very useful table of insert mode motions at :h ins-special-special. <S-Left> cursor one word back (like “b” command) <C-Left> cursor one word back (like “b” command) <S-Right> cursor one word forward (like “w” command) <C-Right> cursor one word forward (like “w” command) You’ll find that Shift-Left/Right and Ctrl-Left/Right will do the trick. Ctrl/Shift … Read more
How to install JSLint on Ubuntu: Install nodejs (includes npm, the Node Package Manager): sudo apt-get install nodejs Install node-jslint. either globally: sudo npm install -g jslint or locally, and include it in $PATH: npm install jslint and add this line to your.bashrc (adjust version number as appropriate) alias jslint=”~/.npm/jslint/0.1.8/package/bin/jslint.js”