This answer is a bit late to the party and also a shameless plug. 🙂 Regardless, try my Indent-Guides.vim plugin. It was created to scratch my own itch regarding the lack of indent guides in vim. I got fed-up waiting for someone else to come along and build it, so I just did it myself. Features: … Read more
:redir >name_of_registers_file :registers :redir END :r name_of_registers_file :help redir The last command is very useful, since there are lots of options for redirection: to variables, to registers, how to append, further cornucopia. I still find it weird and annoying that it uses END that way, but since everything else that can follow redir has to … Read more
To format a line to the left I use :left. Use this format an entire file: :%le
For those of us, who want a vanilla vim: inoremap ” “”<left> inoremap ‘ ”<left> inoremap ( ()<left> inoremap [ []<left> inoremap { {}<left> inoremap {<CR> {<CR>}<ESC>O inoremap {;<CR> {<CR>};<ESC>O This autocomplete in insert mode, provided set paste is not set. Keep it in the vimrc to avoid typing it every time and when we … Read more
This feature has been implemented on June 25, 2014 as patch 7.4.338. There followed a few patches refining the feature, last one being 7.4.354, so that’s the version you’ll want. :help breakindent :help breakindentopt Excerpts from vim help below: ‘breakindent’ ‘bri’ boolean (default off) local to window {not in Vi} {not available when compiled without … Read more
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
I had a 12GB file to edit today. The vim LargeFile plugin did not work for me. It still used up all my memory and then printed an error message :-(. I could not use hexedit for either, as it cannot insert anything, just overwrite. Here is an alternative approach: You split the file, edit … Read more
The closest equivalent (“closest”, not “exact”) to ST2’s Ctrl+P is a plugin called, get ready… CtrlP. There are other similar plugins like Command-T or FuzzyFinder. I use CtrlP and I love it but I wholeheartedly support your decision to go “plugin-free”. It’s not the easiest way to go but it will pay off in the … Read more
Ctrl-C will stop file load. If the file is small enough you may have been lucky to have loaded all the contents and just killed any post load steps. Verify that the whole file has been loaded when using this tip. Vim can handle large files pretty well. I just edited a 3.4GB file, deleting … Read more
If you’re on some kind of UNIX (Linux, etc), you can cheat and filter it through the column(1) command. :%!column -t The above will parse on delimiters inside string literals which is wrong, so you will likely need pre-processing steps and specifying the delimiter for this file for example: %!sed ‘s/”,”/\&/’ | column -t -s … Read more