OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20002/A_Slightly_Advanced_Introduction_to_Vim Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:33:02 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com For regular vi users; disable auto-annoyance http://osnews.com/thread?321934 http://osnews.com/thread?321934 I found the following helpful for cases where you are on a system and want to turn off some very annoying vim settings.

http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=330

Add to personal .vimrc:
set nocindent
set nosmartindent
set noautoindent
filetype indent off

I use this in case a GNU system already has vim that I didn't remove and already replace with nvi. Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (libray) Comments Comment by moleskine http://osnews.com/thread?321943 http://osnews.com/thread?321943 Debian have a reference card for the main commands in vim. I think it comes as a pdf. It fits exactly on two sheets of A4, so you can double-side it, laminate it and keep it around - very handy. I'm sure the card doesn't cover nearly enough ground for the serious user or programmer, but it's really helpful for lighter stuff: editing config files or dealing with no-X things, like editing a file on another machine over ssh. For quick and simple things, I reckon joe has a lot going for it even though it's not nearly as powerful. But I find joe's commands easier to remember for some reason. Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (moleskine) Comments vim cheat compound http://osnews.com/thread?321956 http://osnews.com/thread?321956 This is the original one ;)

http://www.gentoo.org/images/vicheat-compound.png Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lavish) Comments Quoting http://osnews.com/thread?321958 http://osnews.com/thread?321958 If your summary is just a quote from the story, can you put quotes around it and possibly also put it in italics? For example, see most of Thom's news postings. Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (averycfay) Comments Nice Intro/Tutorial http://osnews.com/thread?321969 http://osnews.com/thread?321969 I've been a Vim user for many years now, but since we just got Vim installed on our development server, I shared this intro/tutorial with the rest of my team. Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DoctorPepper) Comments Good article but.... http://osnews.com/thread?322004 http://osnews.com/thread?322004 I thought this article was filled with a lot of good tidbits, however one comment was made that made me cringe!

I assume you know how to split windows, and all that jazzy stuff.

This is the one feature that totally expected to be covered. Every time I use vim and the split window feature with someone next to me they are instantly like "WOW! How do you do that?" I think this is one of vims most flexible and underused features that should have been granted space in this article. Especially when insertion and copy/paste functions are covered. I give this article a B+ overall, but come on guy! Cover the split windows. Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pstreck) Comments RE: Good article but.... http://osnews.com/thread?322020 http://osnews.com/thread?322020 I agree totally. Splitting windows is one of my "neat" selling points for Vim, to my hard-core vi-user friends. Once they see me split a window horizontally, then resize them, and split the top window vertically, they become totally impressed.

Actually, my best selling point is when I edit multiple files, and show how to move between them, then copy and paste between buffers.

Oh, and we won't even talk about the syntax highlighting. That's always good for a few "oooh"'s and "ah"s. :-) Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DoctorPepper) Comments screen + mc + vim http://osnews.com/thread?322023 http://osnews.com/thread?322023 These are my killing CLI all time favorites. Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (acobar) Comments RE: screen + mc + vim http://osnews.com/thread?322043 http://osnews.com/thread?322043
[screen + mc + vim] are my killing CLI all time favorites.


Wow, so I'm not the only one out there! :-) Personally, I like the mcedit, too, but it's not as handy when terminal emulation is not very good. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Doc Pain) Comments Really useful http://osnews.com/thread?322078 http://osnews.com/thread?322078 I do most of my editing in VIM, but it looks like I've been only scratching the surface here. Thanks for the good article. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (PlatformAgnostic) Comments Comment by Bending Unit http://osnews.com/thread?322085 http://osnews.com/thread?322085 I once made an effort to learn vim and emacs because if they are so hard to use, they must be superior right?

But now I only use the basics in vim when I have to and avoid emacs. Coding is done in a real IDE and for other tasks I use editors that are both powerful and usable without reading books and tutorials.

Life is too short for vim. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bending Unit) Comments RE: Comment by Bending Unit http://osnews.com/thread?322104 http://osnews.com/thread?322104 Learning vi or vim seems to be most useful if you're on a *nix terminal, since the server is bound to at least have vi (emacs is more resource-heavy). I actually have a used copy of the O'Reilly vi book, but I don't use or admin headless servers, so I just use GUI text editors. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Johann Chua) Comments Vim : my main editor http://osnews.com/thread?322105 http://osnews.com/thread?322105 I really like Vim and used it on small to large scale projects. It has helped me create a video game (in C for Linux PDA), cms system (content mgt in PHP5) and a bunch of other projects.

I also now use Komodo Edit (free ed.) and it's nice as well. Sometimes a full GUI is nice.

Of course having a background as a Linux/Unix admin. Vi/Vim has served me well (Perl, Shell, Python scripting).

Go Vim! Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ArcadeFX) Comments RE: vim cheat compound http://osnews.com/thread?322478 http://osnews.com/thread?322478 And this is the most useful one ;)

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