In :w !sudo tee %… % means “the current file” As eugene y pointed out, % does indeed mean “the current file name”, which is passed to tee so that it knows which file to overwrite. (In substitution commands, it’s slightly different; as :help :% shows, it’s equal to 1,$ (the entire file) (thanks to … Read more
yy or Y to copy the line (mnemonic: yank) or dd to delete the line (Vim copies what you deleted into a clipboard-like “register”, like a cut operation) then p to paste the copied or deleted text after the current line or P to paste the copied or deleted text before the current line
You can use the \c escape sequence anywhere in the pattern. For example: /\ccopyright or /copyright\c or even /copyri\cght To do the inverse (case sensitive matching), use \C (capital C) instead.
To turn off highlighting until the next search: :noh Or turn off highlighting completely: set nohlsearch Or, to toggle it: set hlsearch! nnoremap <F3> :set hlsearch!<CR>
Use \r instead of \n. Substituting by \n inserts a null character into the text. To get a newline, use \r. When searching for a newline, you’d still use \n, however. This asymmetry is due to the fact that \n and \r do slightly different things: \n matches an end of line (newline), whereas \r … Read more
Use the > command. To indent five lines, 5>>. To mark a block of lines and indent it, Vjj> to indent three lines (Vim only). To indent a curly-braces block, put your cursor on one of the curly braces and use >% or from anywhere inside block use >iB. If you’re copying blocks of text … Read more
Setting the default editor for Git Pick one: Set core.editor in your Git config: git config –global core.editor “vim” Set the GIT_EDITOR environment variable: export GIT_EDITOR=vim Setting the default editor for all programs Set the standardized VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables*: export VISUAL=vim export EDITOR=”$VISUAL” NOTE: Setting both is not necessarily needed, but some programs … Read more