I find the safest alternative is to use an expression abbreviation: cnoreabbrev <expr> x getcmdtype() == “:” && getcmdline() == ‘x’ ? ‘bd’ : ‘x’ This will ensure the abbreviation will only be expanded to bd when 😡 is used otherwise just expand to x. For more help: :h map-<expr> :h getcmdtype() :h getcmdline() Upon … Read more
Yes. Hit Ctrl–R then “. If you have literal control characters in what you have yanked, use Ctrl–R, Ctrl–O, “. Here is an explanation of what you can do with registers. What you can do with registers is extraordinary, and once you know how to use them you cannot live without them. Registers are basically … Read more
Short Answer Use buffers effectively! Long answer You might consider use :tabclose to close your tabs. This has the benefit of closing the tab (and keeping you away from your mouse) but also being just annoying enough to motivate a workflow change over to using buffers and splits. As for a warning about closing a … Read more
Unix uses 0xA for a newline character. Windows uses a combination of two characters: 0xD 0xA. 0xD is the carriage return character. ^M happens to be the way vim displays 0xD (0x0D = 13, M is the 13th letter in the English alphabet). You can remove all the ^M characters by running the following: :%s/^M//g … Read more
Ctrl+] – go to definition Ctrl+T – Jump back from the definition. Ctrl+W Ctrl+] – Open the definition in a horizontal split Add these lines in vimrc map <C-\> :tab split<CR>:exec(“tag “.expand(“<cword>”))<CR> map <A-]> :vsp <CR>:exec(“tag “.expand(“<cword>”))<CR> Ctrl+\ – Open the definition in a new tab Alt+] – Open the definition in a vertical split … 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
Your problem with Vim is that you don’t grok vi. You mention cutting with yy and complain that you almost never want to cut whole lines. In fact programmers, editing source code, very often want to work on whole lines, ranges of lines and blocks of code. However, yy is only one of many way … Read more
Use \r instead of \n. Substituting by \n inserts a null character into the text. To get a newline, use \r. When searching for a newline, you’d still use \n, however. This asymmetry is due to the fact that \n and \r do slightly different things: \n matches an end of line (newline), whereas \r … Read more