The command is called :saveas, but unfortunately it will not delete your old file, you’ll have to do that manually. see :help saveas for more info. EDIT: Most vim installations have an integrated file explorer, which you can use for such operations. Try :Explore in command mode (I would actually map that to a function … Read more
I’ve been using vi and vim also for some 20 years, and I’m still learning new things. David Rayner’s Best of Vim Tips site is an excellent list, though it’s probably more useful once you have some familiarity with vim. I also want to mention the ViEmu site which has some great info on vi/vim … Read more
Press Esc to enter ‘command mode’ Use Ctrl+V to enter visual block mode Move Up/Downto select the columns of text in the lines you want to comment. Then hit Shift+i and type the text you want to insert. Then hit Esc, wait 1 second and the inserted text will appear on every line. For further … Read more
This is quicker. Just use this :$
Ctrl+] – go to definition Ctrl+T – Jump back from the definition. Ctrl+W Ctrl+] – Open the definition in a horizontal split Add these lines in vimrc map <C-\> :tab split<CR>:exec(“tag “.expand(“<cword>”))<CR> map <A-]> :vsp <CR>:exec(“tag “.expand(“<cword>”))<CR> Ctrl+\ – Open the definition in a new tab Alt+] – Open the definition in a vertical split … Read more
Type :colorscheme then Space followed by TAB. or as Peter said, :colorscheme then Space followed by CTRLd The short version of the command is :colo so you can use it in the two previous commands, instead of using the “long form”. If you want to find and preview more themes, there are various websites like … Read more
Edit: As described in this answer, newer versions of MacOS now have native support for rebinding Caps Lock to Escape. Thus it is no longer necessary to install third-party software to achieve this. Here’s my attempt at a comprehensive, visual walk-through answer (with links) of how to achieve this using Seil (formerly known as PCKeyboardHack). … Read more
Command :%s/<Ctrl-V><Ctrl-M>/\r/g Where <Ctrl-V><Ctrl-M> means type Ctrl+V then Ctrl+M. Explanation :%s substitute, % = all lines <Ctrl-V><Ctrl-M> ^M characters (the Ctrl-V is a Vim way of writing the Ctrl ^ character and Ctrl-M writes the M after the regular expression, resulting to ^M special character) /\r/ with new line (\r) g And do it globally … Read more
To delete something without saving it in a register, you can use the “black hole register”: “_d Of course you could also use any of the other registers that don’t hold anything you are interested in.
Visual select the text, then U for uppercase or u for lowercase. To swap all casing in a visual selection, press ~ (tilde). Without using a visual selection, gU<motion> will make the characters in motion uppercase, or use gu<motion> for lowercase. For more of these, see Section 3 in Vim’s change.txt help file.