Updated: April 23rd, 2008
[WORK IN PROGRESS] Here is a list of commands that I use every day with vim, in no particular order. Out of a billion possible key combinations, I found these to be irreplaceable and simple enough to remember.
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* |
search for the word under cursor (to the end of the file) |
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# |
search for the word under cursor (to the top of the file) |
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ctrl-p,ctrl-n |
suggest (p)revious or (n)ext autocomplete from the list of existing keywords in the file or included files (!). |
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:go NNN |
go to byte NNN |
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. |
redo last command |
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/SEARCH TERM |
search document for SEARCH TERM |
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:%s/FOO/BAR/gci |
replace FOO with BAR (g)lobally, case (i)insensitively, and asking for (c)onfirmation |
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Updated: July 8th, 2009
Today I was asked a question about defining custom extensions for vim syntax highlighting such that, for example, vim would know that example.lmx is actually of type xml and apply xml syntax highlighting to it. I know vim already automatically does it not just based on extension but by looking for certain strings inside the text, like <?xml but what if my file doesn't have such strings?
After digging around I found the solution. Add the following to ~/.vimrc (the vim configuration file):
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syntax on filetype on au BufNewFile,BufRead *.lmx set filetype=xml |
After applying it, my .lmx file is highlighted:
Same principle works, for instance, for mysql dumps that I have to do from time to time. …
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