Use the following: xnoremap p pgvy this will reselect and re-yank any text that is pasted in visual mode. Edit: in order this to work with “xp you can do: xnoremap p pgv”@=v:register.’y'<cr> v:register expands to the last register name used in a normal mode command.
As has been pointed out in a couple of other answers, the preferred method now is NOT to use smartindent, but instead use the following (in your .vimrc): filetype plugin indent on ” show existing tab with 4 spaces width set tabstop=4 ” when indenting with ‘>’, use 4 spaces width set shiftwidth=4 ” On … Read more
Registers in Vim let you run actions or commands on text stored within them. To access a register, you type “a before a command, where a is the name of a register. If you want to copy the current line into register k, you can type “kyy Or you can append to a register by … Read more
Check this Vim tip: Search for visually selected text Or you can simply yank the selected text with y and go to search mode /, then you can paste the last yanked text with Ctrl+R 0
As others have said, you could use :set list which will, in combination with :set listchars=… display invisible characters. Now, there isn’t an explicit option which you can use to show whitespace, but in listchars, you could set a character to show for everything BUT whitespace. For example, mine looks like this :set listchars=eol:$,tab:>-,trail:~,extends:>,precedes:< so, … Read more
To Mac users out there: for mapping ALT+hjkl, use instead the real character generated (find out which character using the combination while in INSERT mode), for example with my keyboard I get: <ALT+j> ==> ª <ALT+k> ==> º and so on. Solution found here on StackOverflow. I used this to move lines up and down … Read more
To delete something without saving it in a register, you can use the “black hole register”: “_d Of course you could also use any of the other registers that don’t hold anything you are interested in.
Outdated from August 2011 Check out Conque Shell (also on GitHub). Lets you run any interactive program inside vim, not just a shell.
You need to create it. In most installations I’ve used it hasn’t been created by default. You usually create it as ~/.vimrc.
The * register will do this. In Windows, + and * are equivalent. In unix there is a subtle difference between + and *: Under Windows, the * and + registers are equivalent. For X11 systems, though, they differ. For X11 systems, * is the selection, and + is the cut buffer (like clipboard). http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Accessing_the_system_clipboard … Read more