vim notes

vim-note.txt

# vim

cw	change word
dw	delete word
d3w	delete 3 words
dd 	delete line
dfa	delete forward (including) a
dtu	delete til u
d$	delete from the cursor to the end of the line
ctrl-u	scrolling upwards
ctrl-d	scrolling downwards
ctrl-g	display a status line
:set number	display line numbers
:set nonumber		turn of line numbers
gg 	move to the first line
1G	move to the first line
3G 	move to the third line
G	move to the last line
fx	find character ‘x’ forward, e.g. fc find character ‘c’
Fx	find ….............. backward
3fa 	find the third ‘a’
tx	move til (in front of) charactor ‘x’
;	repeat f,F,t or T 
,	repeat f,F,t or T backward
#w	# words forward
#W	# WORDS forward
#+	# lines downward
#-	# lines upward
#e	forward to the end of word
#E	forward to the end of WORD
#b 	# words backward
#B	# WORDS backward 
$ 	move to the end of line
#$	move to the end of # lines
0 	to the first character of the line
^	to the first non-blank character of the line
u	undo changes
ctrl-r	redo changes
U	undo all changes on one line
.	repeat last delete or change
J	join two lines
3J	join three lines
ra	replace to character a
5ra	replace 5 characters with a
R	replace letters until esc is pressed
#s	delete letters and insert. substitute # number of letters
#S				lines
~	change a case, from small to capital, capital to small letter. Need to hit it twice in my keyboard
>>	indent one line
>5>	indent 5 lines
>G	indent til the end of file
<	unindent (use same methods as above)
==	indent one text line
=3=	indent 3 text lines


macro
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Macros
qa	start and end macro and register it in ‘a’. then recode the key stroke to record
#@a	repeat a macro ‘a’ # of times

Digraph: Special characters
i ctrl-k 	insert mode, this starts ? ready to enter a special character
:digraph	This will show all the special charcters
e.g.
i ctrl-k 12 	a halp
i ctrl-k cO	copy right mark
i ctrl-k GF	trade mark

Chapter 3 Search
/(word)	search
#n	search # number next
#N	search # number before
/(page up/page down)		this will show the history of search
:set hlsearch		add highlight to searched words
:set nohlsearch	no highlight to searched words
:set incsearch		set incremental search. Each additional character further refines the search.
:set noincsearch	take off incremental search
? 	search backward, ‘n’ continue to search backward, N search forward
/(word) n ? n 		search a word, n: next word, ?: search backward, n: search backward

page 32 Regular expression
/^(word)	search the word where only if it is the beginning of the line
/(word)$	search the word where only if it is the end of the line
^(word)$	search a line consisting of just the word
^$		search empty lines
.		match any single character e.g c.m search , com, computer, cam, become etc
\.		matching a special character ‘.’ Escape special character with \


Chapter 4
#p	put deleted line/word # of times after the cursor
#P	same as above except before the cursor
dd p	delete a line and put it after the cursor
dw p	delete a word and put it after the cursor
ma 	mark the position as a, mb marks the position as b etc
‘a	move to the position where you marked as ‘a’
ma (move cursor) d’a		mark the position as ‘a’ and move the cursor then delete upto there
yy 	copy a line
#yy	copy # of lines
ma (move) y’a	(move) p 	mark the position as a and move the cursor then yank upto there, then move a position and put it there.
yw 	yank a word, if it is a middle of a word, then yank from there to the end of the word
#yw	yank # of words
(!motion command)	! is followed by a motion command like followings.
!10Gsort(enter)	sort from a cursor’s position to line 10
!!(man command)	!!date will outputs the date, !!ls will outputs the directory list


:set spell	set spell check
:set nospell	take off spell check
:help spell	
]s — move to the next mispelled word
[s — move to the previous mispelled word




Chapter 6 Basic visual mode
        
v	enter to visual mode
V	enter to visual line mode
:help v_d	shows help of d in visual mode
ctrl-v	enter to visual block mode
d	delete the highlighted text
D	delete the highlighted lines (even the cursor is highlighting a part of line)
y	yank the highlighted text
Y	yank the highlighted lines (even the cursor is highlighting a part of line)
c	change highlighted texts (delete texts and insert)
C	change hightlighted lines (delete line and insert)
J	join highlighted lines (even partially) with a space between
gJ	join highlighted lines without a space




ctrl v then j to go down, shift i to insert at the beginning of the block. 
insert a word, escape/esc then the word will be inserted to all the lines.

ctrl v, then j to go down, x to delete a one column, then ‘.’ to repeat the delete

gv select the same area as previously seletcted (recall the selected area)


working with many files 1

:ls		list the buffers
:h ls		show help on ls
adding alias through terminal
alias g=’vim --remote-silent’
cd /home/shin/.vim/plugin
g m*		opens all the files start with m,
:b mar(tab) 	will display for example :b mark.vim
:b# 		shows a buffer with # in the ls, or the recent buffer
:bd		delete the current buffer
:bd 3 4		will delete #3 and 4 buffer in ls
:bd name_of_buffer another_name	
		will delete both buffer
20, 26bd	will delete buffer number 20 - 26
%bd		will delete all buffers




Using vim plugin Surround 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HF4jSyPpvs&feature=player_embedded
Hello world

Vs <strong>	‘V’ to enter visual mode, ‘s’ to enter surround and enter <strong>
VS<strong>	same as above except indent a line
viws’	vim: visual inner word to select a word	s:surround with ‘’’(single ‘)
viws<em>						surround with <em></em>
cst <strong>	change surrounding tag to <strong></strong>
dst		delete surrounding tag
cs’”		change surround from ‘ to “
ds”		delete surrounding “



http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/01/vi-and-vim-editor-5-awesome-examples-for-automatic-word-completion-using-ctrl-x-magic/#more-328

1. Word/pattern completion using ctrl-x ctrl-n
If there are already words and you want to use it.

CTRL-x CTRL-n : Word completion – forward
CTRL-x CTRL-p : Word completion – backward

Complete an existing word in the file, without retyping it.
Complete a variable name or a function name on your program or shell-scripts.

2. Line completion using ctrl-x ctrl-l
This insert an EXISTING line in the same file.

Repeat an existing line quickly in your file.
Automatically fill first line of the function definition, when the function is already declared elsewhere in the same file.

3. File Name completion using ctrl-x ctrl-f
Typical usage: When you give the path of the file name as a reference INSIDE a document.


4. Thesaurus word completion using ctrl-x ctrl-t


5. Dictionary word completion using ctrl-x ctrl-k
Add the following to .vimrc
$ cat ~/.vimrc
set dictionary+=/usr/share/dict/words


http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/08/vim-editor-how-to-setup-most-recently-used-documents-features-using-mru-plugin/#more-1274

:MRU 		shows most recently used

increase the number of list
$ cat ~/.vimrc
let MRU_Max_Entries = 20