It really depends on what language you’re using, but in C# and Java I find IDEs beneficial for: Quickly navigating to a type without needing to worry about namespace, project etc Navigating to members by treating them as hyperlinks Autocompletion when you can’t remember the names of all members by heart Automatic code generation Refactoring … Read more
A double quote to the left of the text you want to comment. Example: ” this is how a comment looks like in ~/.vimrc To be clear: Do not include a closing double quote. (See comment from Arslan Ali below.)
You want something like :mksession ~/mysession.vim Then later you can source that vim file and you’ll have your old session back: :source ~/mysession.vim or open vim with the -S option: $ vim -S ~/mysession.vim
Move the cursor to the n in name. Enter visual block mode (Ctrlv). Press j three times (or 3j) to jump down by 3 lines; G (capital g) to jump to the last line Press I (capital i). Type in vendor_. Note: It will only update the screen in the first line – until Esc … Read more
Activate the NERDTree and navigate to the directory in which the new file should live. Then press m to bring up the NERDTree Filesystem Menu and choose a for “add child node”. Then simply enter the file’s (or directory’s name) and you’re done.
As of vim 7.3, you can use set colorcolumn=80 (set cc=80 for short). Since earlier versions do not support this, my .vimrc uses instead: if exists(‘+colorcolumn’) set colorcolumn=80 else au BufWinEnter * let w:m2=matchadd(‘ErrorMsg’, ‘\%>80v.\+’, -1) endif See also the online documentation on the colorcolumn option.
You can add .vim files to be executed whenever vim switches to a particular filetype. For example, I have a file ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/html.vim with this contents: setlocal shiftwidth=2 setlocal tabstop=2 Which causes vim to use tabs with a width of 2 characters for indenting (the noexpandtab option is set globally elsewhere in my configuration). This is … Read more
Once you’ve got expandtab on as per the other answers, the extremely convenient way to convert existing files according to your new settings is: :retab It will work on the current buffer.
Shortest/simplest/fastest way would be: :qa To save work in all tabs and quit: :wqa
While in insert mode hit CTRL-R {register} Examples: CTRL-R * will insert in the contents of the clipboard CTRL-R ” (the unnamed register) inserts the last delete or yank. To find this in vim’s help type :h i_ctrl-r