Useful vim notes.

VimNotes.md

File Searching

• set path+=** to recursively search all directories and sub-directories.
• set wildmenu for tab completion.
• gf go to file under cursor.
• For nicely formatted netrw we can add the following to .vimrc:

  let g:netrw_banner=0
  let g:netrw_browse_split=4
  let g:netrw_altv=1
  let g:netrw_liststyle=3
  let g:netrw_list_hide=netrw_gitignore#Hide()
  let g:netrw_list_hide.=',\(^\|\s\s\)\zs\.\S\+'
  

Tags

• Install ctags.
• Add command! MakeTags ctags -R . to .vimrc.
• Vim can read the generated tags file from MakeTags. You could also make the ctags command run when you save the file.
• ^] go into tag.
• g^] search for ambigous (multiple) tags.
• ^t come out of tag.

Autocompletion

• ^x^n autocompletion from just this file.
• ^x^f for filenames.
• ^x^] for tags only.
• ^n or ^p anything specified by 'complete' option.
• Use ^n or ^p to traverse options.

Snippets

• Add skeleton files to .vim/ folder, then use add mapping such as the following to .vimrc : nnoremap ,html :-1read $HOME/.vim/.skeleton.html 3jwf>a.