When you edit and save files, Vim creates a file with the same name as the original file and an un~ extension at the end. Vim 7.3 contains a new feature persistent undo, that is, undo information won’t be lost when quitting Vim and be stored in a file that ends with .un~. You have … Read more
If you are on the first line, pressing (upper case) J will join that line and the next line together, removing the newline. You can also combine this with a count, so pressing 3J will combine all 3 lines together.
just type :! or you could try SingleCompile
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
Add a ? mark after the setting name and it will show the value, e.g., :set expandtab?
I think you described the most popular ways to comment code, but if you are open to use Vim Scripts, give a look to those: The NERD Commenter EnhCommentify.vim tComment
So, I’ve never done any Vim scripting before, but based on this question about doing something similar in C and this tip for checking if you’re currently in a comment, I’ve hacked together a solution. By default, this uses the PEP8-suggested widths of 79 characters for normal lines and 72 characters for comments, but you … Read more
I do all of my HTML editing in vim. The three plugins I find most helpful for editing HTML and XML in vim are matchit, surround, and allml. Matchit will allow you to jump to the start/end tag with ‘%’. Surround allows you to easily add, delete, and change the surrounding tags. Allml provides you … Read more
Technically, there is no difference in implementation of both User-defined completion (see :help compl-function, :help ‘completefunc’) and Omni completion (see :help compl-omni, :help ‘omnifunc’). Both of them work by calling a function of special semantics that locates the start of the expression to be completed at the current position, and provides appropriate completion suggestions (see … Read more
pythoncomplete is rather old and unmaintained. Try to use Jedi: https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi-vim It was originally an improved pythoncomplete, but is now much much more powerful! It works for complex code: And has additional features: There is a list of all possible features: builtin functions/classes support complex module / function / class structures ignores syntax and indentation … Read more