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Like VI or VIM? So do I! Use it more effectively with daily tips. Catch them all at http://t.co/ty7XLqgePG.
Indiana
Joined August 2008
gq{movement} to wrap text, or just gq while in visual mode. gqap will format the current paragraph.
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g< CTRL-G > to see technical information about the file, such as how many words are in it, or how many bytes it is.
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:%s/[.!?]\_s\+\a/\U&\E/g will uppercase the first letter of each sentence (except the very first one).
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:vimgrep /stext/ **/*.txt | :copen.searches for stext recursively in *.txt files and show results in separate window (via @danechkin).
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In gvim, change the cursor depending on what mode you are in (normal, insert, etc):
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To search for a URL without backslashing, search backwards! Example: ?
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CTRL-w | and CTRL-W _ maximize your current split vertically and horizontally, respectively. CTRL-W = equalizes 'em.
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Basic commands 'f' and 't' (like first and 'til) are very powerful. See :help t or :help f.
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/\%>80v.\+ with search highlighting (:set hlsearch) will highlight any text after column 80.
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/< CTRL-r >< CTRL-w > will pull the word under the cursor into search.
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"+y to copy to the X11 (or Windows) clipboard. "+p to paste from it.
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ga will display the ASCII, hex, and octal value of the character under the cursor.
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% matches brackets {} [] (), and with matchit.vim, also matches def/end, < ?php/?>, < p>/< /p>, etc.
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:40,50m30 will move lines 40 through 50 to line 30. Most visual mode commands can be used w/ line numbers.
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