there are many ways, but here’s a simple, easy to understand way. add these lines to your ~/.vimrc: autocmd FileType html setlocal ts=2 sts=2 sw=2 autocmd FileType ruby setlocal ts=2 sts=2 sw=2 autocmd FileType javascript setlocal ts=4 sts=4 sw=4
Use abolish.vim: :%S/badjob/goodjob/g
I found the answer here. Adding the following to my .vimrc file did the trick: autocmd BufWritePre *.py :%s/\s\+$//e The e flag at the end means that the command doesn’t issue an error message if the search pattern fails. See :h :s_flags for more.
A bar | will allow you to do this. From :help :bar ‘|’ can be used to separate commands, so you can give multiple commands in one line. If you want to use ‘|’ in an argument, precede it with ‘\’. Example: :echo “hello” | echo “goodbye” Output: hello goodbye NB: You may find that … Read more
Once you’ve got expandtab on as per the other answers, the extremely convenient way to convert existing files according to your new settings is: :retab It will work on the current buffer.
=, the indent command can take motions. So, gg to get the start of the file, = to indent, G to the end of the file, gg=G.
:g/^$/d :g will execute a command on lines which match a regex. The regex is ‘blank line’ and the command is :d (delete)
Replace All: :%s/foo/bar/g Find each occurrence of ‘foo’ (in all lines), and replace it with ‘bar’. For specific lines: :6,10s/foo/bar/g Change each ‘foo’ to ‘bar’ for all lines from line 6 to line 10 inclusive.
autocmd VimEnter * NERDTree autocmd BufEnter * NERDTreeMirror edit: The above command seems to open the new tab in NERDTree’s buffer. Instead use this as mentioned by wejrowski in the comment below : autocmd BufWinEnter * NERDTreeMirror
Some terminals send <NL> when <C-Enter> is pressed. This is equivalent to sending <C-J>. To find out what your terminal does with <Shift-Enter>, <Ctrl-Enter> and <Enter>, go to your terminal, type <Ctrl-V> (similar to sykora’s suggestion for vim), and type in the sequence you’re interested in. Using gnome-terminal, I get the following: <Enter> : ^M … Read more