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
Press Esc to enter ‘command mode’ Use Ctrl+V to enter visual block mode Move Up/Downto select the columns of text in the lines you want to comment. Then hit Shift+i and type the text you want to insert. Then hit Esc, wait 1 second and the inserted text will appear on every line. For further … Read more
Move the cursor to the n in name. Enter visual block mode (Ctrlv). Press j three times (or 3j) to jump down by 3 lines; G (capital g) to jump to the last line Press I (capital i). Type in vendor_. Note: It will only update the screen in the first line – until Esc … Read more
From http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Search_and_replace : When Searching … \n is newline, \r is CR (carriage return = Ctrl-M = ^M) When Replacing … \r is newline, \n is a null byte (0x00).
I’d strongly recommend to keep working with swap files (in case Vim crashes). You can set the directory where the swap files are stored, so they don’t clutter your normal directories: set swapfile set dir=~/tmp See also :help swap-file
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
The <Leader> key is mapped to \ by default. So if you have a map of <Leader>t, you can execute it by default with \+t. For more detail or re-assigning it using the mapleader variable, see :help leader To define a mapping which uses the “mapleader” variable, the special string “<Leader>” can be used. It … Read more
Command :%s/<Ctrl-V><Ctrl-M>/\r/g Where <Ctrl-V><Ctrl-M> means type Ctrl+V then Ctrl+M. Explanation :%s substitute, % = all lines <Ctrl-V><Ctrl-M> ^M characters (the Ctrl-V is a Vim way of writing the Ctrl ^ character and Ctrl-M writes the M after the regular expression, resulting to ^M special character) /\r/ with new line (\r) g And do it globally … Read more
Isn’t that what “https://stackoverflow.com/” does? If you’re looking for the next “x” then do /x while in command mode. Then you can hit “n” to advance to the next x, and then the next x, etc. There are lots of vim cheat sheets out there with all kinds of tips.
Although I would not recommend changing the default cursor mechanics, one way of achieving the behavior in question is to use the following Insert-mode mapping. :inoremap <silent> <Esc> <Esc>`^ Here the Esc key is overloaded in Insert mode to additionally run the `^ command which moves the cursor to the position where it had been the … Read more