Much simpler than scripting vim from the bash command line is to use vimscript from inside of vim (or perhaps a much simpler one-liner for scripting vim from the command line). I personally prefer using the arg list for all multi-file manipulation. For example: :args ~/src/myproject/**/*.ttl | argdo execute “normal gg=G” | update args sets … Read more
The problem There are two ways for a terminal emulator to send an Alt key (usually called a Meta key as actual terminals didn’t have Alt). It can either send 8 bit characters and set the high bit when Alt is used, or it can use escape sequences, sending Alt-a as <Esc>a. Vim expects to … Read more
au BufWritePost *.c,*.cpp,*.h silent! !ctags -R & The downside is that you won’t have a useful tags file until it completes. As long as you’re on a *nix system it should be ok to do multiple writes before the previous ctags has completed, but you should test that. On a Windows system it won’t put … Read more
running vim with the -V[N] option will do a pretty hefty runtime log, here N is the debug level. vim -V9myVim.log would create a log of debug level 9 in the current directory with the filename myVim.log
With :%s/^/\=line(‘.’)/ EDIT: to sum up the comments. This command can be tweaked as much as you want. Let’s say you want to add numbers in front of lines from a visual selection (V + move), and you want the numbering to start at 42. :'<,’>s/^/\=(line(‘.’)-line(“‘<“)+42)/ If you want to add a string between the … Read more
I personally use set wildmode=longest,list,full set wildmenu When you type the first tab hit, it will complete as much as possible. The second tab hit will provide a list. The third and subsequent tabs will cycle through completion options so you can complete the file without further keys. Bash-like would be just set wildmode=longest,list but … Read more
From the doc: :write ++enc=utf-8 russian.txt So you should be able to change the encoding as part of the write command.
The mapping nnoremap <esc> :noh<return><esc> will conflict with so called “grey keys” and I believe that it should be used either in GVim only or in terminal Vim by someone who does not use special keys like arrows. From what I know (and guess) how Vim processes keys, I would say that it’s impossible to … Read more
The problem is that your settings are being overridden by a filetype plugin that’s part of Vim. The issue is in ftplugin/python.vim: ” As suggested by PEP8. setlocal expandtab shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 tabstop=8 The python plugin attempts to setup your source code to be PEP8 compliant by default, so it’s adjusting the tabstop. You’ll want some … Read more
I got something like this in my .vimrc: au BufNewFile *.xml 0r ~/.vim/xml.skel | let IndentStyle = “xml” au BufNewFile *.html 0r ~/.vim/html.skel | let IndentStyle = “html” And so on, whatever you’ll need.