I think the better solution is to place these lines in your vimrc file set backupdir=~/vimtmp//,. set directory=~/vimtmp//,. The first line is for backup files, the second line for swap files. The double slash at the end ensures that there is no conflict in case of two files having the same name, see comments (at … Read more
Use the > command. To indent five lines, 5>>. To mark a block of lines and indent it, Vjj> to indent three lines (Vim only). To indent a curly-braces block, put your cursor on one of the curly braces and use >% or from anywhere inside block use >iB. If you’re copying blocks of text … 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
Update: Better answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/38258720/62202 To turn off autoindent when you paste code, there’s a special “paste” mode. Type :set paste Then paste your code. Note that the text in the tooltip now says — INSERT (paste) –. After you pasted your code, turn off the paste-mode, so that auto-indenting when you type works correctly … Read more
For those tasks I use most of the time block selection. Put your cursor on the first # character, press CtrlV (or CtrlQ for gVim), and go down until the last commented line and press x, that will delete all the # characters vertically. For commenting a block of text is almost the same: First, … Read more
You can put something like this in $VIM/vimrc autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead /path/to/files/* set nowrap tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4
It depends on what you mean. Do you want actual tab characters in your file to appear 4 spaces wide, or by “tab” do you actually mean an indent, generated by pressing the tab key, which would result in the file literally containing (up to) 4 space characters for each “tab” you type? Depending on … Read more
It really depends on what language you’re using, but in C# and Java I find IDEs beneficial for: Quickly navigating to a type without needing to worry about namespace, project etc Navigating to members by treating them as hyperlinks Autocompletion when you can’t remember the names of all members by heart Automatic code generation Refactoring … Read more
And for vim 7.4+ you can use (preferably on your .vimrc) (thanks to 罗泽轩 for that last bit of news!): :set nofixendofline Now regarding older versions of vim. Even if the file was already saved with new lines at the end: vim -b file and once in vim: :set noeol :wq done. alternatively you can … Read more
As of vim 7.3, you can use set colorcolumn=80 (set cc=80 for short). Since earlier versions do not support this, my .vimrc uses instead: if exists(‘+colorcolumn’) set colorcolumn=80 else au BufWinEnter * let w:m2=matchadd(‘ErrorMsg’, ‘\%>80v.\+’, -1) endif See also the online documentation on the colorcolumn option.