Assuming terminal Vim on a flavor of *nix: To suspend your running Vim Ctrl + Z will suspend the process and get back to your shell fg will resume (bring to foreground) your suspended Vim. To start a new shell Start a subshell using: :sh (as configured by) :set shell? or :!bash followed by: Ctrl+D … Read more
You can use built-in profiling support: after launching vim do :profile start profile.log :profile func * :profile file * ” At this point do slow actions :profile pause :noautocmd qall! (unlike quitting noautocmd is not really required, it just makes vim quit faster). Note: you won’t get information about functions there were deleted before vim … Read more
If I want to swap one line with the line above I usually do the following ddkP Explanation dd will delete the line and add it to the default register. k will move up a line (j would move down a line) P will paste above the current line
While it may make sense that you should be able to use the h j k l keys to traverse the editor in insert mode, but that is actually not the way Vim is intended to be used! There are many commands that Vim provides to make editing faster and easier. The right way is … Read more
You can use <CTRL-V><Tab> in “insert mode”. In insert mode, <CTRL-V> inserts a literal copy of your next character. If you need to do this often, @Dee`Kej suggested (in the comments) setting Shift+Tab to insert a real tab with this mapping: :inoremap <S-Tab> <C-V><Tab> Also, as noted by @feedbackloop, on Windows you may need to … Read more
Add set number to your .vimrc file in your home directory. If the .vimrc file is not in your home directory create one with vim .vimrc and add the commands you want at open. Here’s a site that explains the vimrc and how to use it.
Use the :w command with a filename: :w other_filename
Outdated from August 2011 Check out Conque Shell (also on GitHub). Lets you run any interactive program inside vim, not just a shell.
Stop, stop, stop. This is not how Vim’s tabs are designed to be used. In fact, they’re misnamed. A better name would be “viewport” or “layout”, because that’s what a tab is—it’s a different layout of windows of all of your existing buffers. Trying to beat Vim into 1 tab == 1 buffer is an … Read more
I really wish I’d known that you can use Ctrl+C instead of Esc to switch out of insert mode. That’s been a real productivity boost for me.