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
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
Update: Better answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/38258720/62202 To turn off autoindent when you paste code, there’s a special “paste” mode. Type :set paste Then paste your code. Note that the text in the tooltip now says — INSERT (paste) –. After you pasted your code, turn off the paste-mode, so that auto-indenting when you type works correctly … Read more
I managed to create a syntax highlighter for Android, based on the Prettify. It was easy, actually, when I found the Java Prettify. Just download it (sadly, it is not published for maven) and add its jar to the build path of you application. The syntax highlighter I created based on it: public class PrettifyHighlighter … Read more
Um, that’s because Visual Studio is the best IDE. Come back to the darkside.
Windows Sublime Text 2 (Build 2181) The latest Build 2181 just added support for the -w (wait) command line argument. The following configuration will allow ST2 to work as your default git editor on Windows. This will allow git to open ST2 for commit messages and such. git config –global core.editor “‘c:/program files/sublime text 2/sublime_text.exe’ … Read more
Stop, stop, stop. This is not how Vim’s tabs are designed to be used. In fact, they’re misnamed. A better name would be “viewport” or “layout”, because that’s what a tab is—it’s a different layout of windows of all of your existing buffers. Trying to beat Vim into 1 tab == 1 buffer is an … Read more
dos2unix is a commandline utility that will do this, or :%s/^M//g will if you use Ctrl–v Ctrl–m to input the ^M, or you can :set ff=unix and Vim will do it for you. There is documentation on the fileformat setting, and the Vim wiki has a comprehensive page on line ending conversions. Alternately, if you … Read more
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 linux distros supply a minimal vim installation by default, but if you install the vim-gtk or … Read more
Update September 2015 (6 years later) The last release of git-for-Windows (2.5.3) now includes: By configuring git config core.editor notepad, users can now use notepad.exe as their default editor. Configuring git config format.commitMessageColumns 72 will be picked up by the notepad wrapper and line-wrap the commit message after the user edits it. See commit 69b301b … Read more