To make it work cross-platform, just put the following in your vimrc: nmap <F3> i<C-R>=strftime(“%Y-%m-%d %a %I:%M %p”)<CR><Esc> imap <F3> <C-R>=strftime(“%Y-%m-%d %a %I:%M %p”)<CR> Now you can just press F3 any time inside Vi/Vim and you’ll get a timestamp like 2016-01-25 Mo 12:44 inserted at the cursor. For a complete description of the available parameters … Read more
While it may make sense that you should be able to use the h j k l keys to traverse the editor in insert mode, but that is actually not the way Vim is intended to be used! There are many commands that Vim provides to make editing faster and easier. The right way is … Read more
Why not use tabs (introduced in Vim 7)? You can switch between tabs with :tabn and :tabp, With :tabe <filepath> you can add a new tab; and with a regular :q or :wq you close a tab. If you map :tabn and :tabp to your F7/F8 keys you can easily switch between files. If there … Read more
There’s several things that all need to be in place. Just to summarize them all in one location: Set the following option: :filetype indent on :set filetype=html # abbrev – :set ft=html :set smartindent # abbrev – :set si Then either move the cursor to the top of the file and indent to the end: … Read more
Use: :%y+ to yank all lines. Explanation: % to refer the next command to work on all the lines y to yank those lines + to copy to the system clipboard NB: In Windows, + and * are equivalent see this answer.
Here are two ways: escape the / which is the default substitute separator: :s/usrbin/\/usr\/bin use another substitute separator, e.g., using the hash # character: :s#usrbin#/usr/bin. Note that there are characters that you can’t use as a separator: “, \, | You can review this in the help subsystem using :h pattern-delimiter
If I want to swap one line with the line above I usually do the following ddkP Explanation dd will delete the line and add it to the default register. k will move up a line (j would move down a line) P will paste above the current line
Use the following: xnoremap p pgvy this will reselect and re-yank any text that is pasted in visual mode. Edit: in order this to work with “xp you can do: xnoremap p pgv”@=v:register.’y'<cr> v:register expands to the last register name used in a normal mode command.
As has been pointed out in a couple of other answers, the preferred method now is NOT to use smartindent, but instead use the following (in your .vimrc): filetype plugin indent on ” show existing tab with 4 spaces width set tabstop=4 ” when indenting with ‘>’, use 4 spaces width set shiftwidth=4 ” On … Read more
Registers in Vim let you run actions or commands on text stored within them. To access a register, you type “a before a command, where a is the name of a register. If you want to copy the current line into register k, you can type “kyy Or you can append to a register by … Read more