This is a continuation of vimscript #182 by Gergely Kontra, who has

asked me to take over support and maintenance.  So if you have any

questions or suggestions, please direct them to me.  Please read the

description below as some enhancements have been made as well.



Description:

  This script allows you to use the tab key to do all your insert

  completion (:help ins-completion).



  Ex. To complete the word bar or baz

    foo bar baz

    b<Tab>





  This version of SuperTab supports several configuration options:

  NOTE: Please see the "Global Variables" fold in the script for more details.

  - The default completion type (defaults to keyword completion)

  - The duration that a non-default completion type will be retained before

    switching back to the default (defaults to retaining the current

    completion type until you manually kick off a different one).

  - Disabling of mid-word (word character to the left and right) completion

    (defaults to mid-word completion enabled).

  - Ability to change the default mapping to kick off forward or backward

    completion (defaults to <tab> and <s-tab>).

  - A discovery list to determine the default completion type to use for any

    given buffer (defaults to no discovery).

  - Option to highlight the first entry in the results if your completeopt has

    'menu' and 'longest'.

>What is the best practice to have variable values being echod/written

>somewhere during execution which doens't impact the execution negatively?

I use Decho; its an instrumented-code type of debugging tool.



You can get the Decho plugin from:



http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=120

-or-

http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#DECHO

(this latter one is always the most up-to-date)





To install if you're using vim7.1:



1. Install a new version of Decho:

vim Decho.vba.gz

:so %

:q



Regards,

Chip Campbell

A terminal/shell buffer script for python enabled [g]vim (+python).  Allows execution of shell commands in a vim buffer.

It does not use r! <cmd>.  



Some of it's features:

      - It retains state because it's interactive.  For example, set an environment variable and it "stays" because the

         shell process is the same through the whole session.

      - It can run interactive line based programs like ftp/telnet/python/ssh/etc including masked password input (pty supported platform only).

      - Since it's a vim buffer you can go into normal mode and move around the buffer, yank, paste, use word completion, etc

      - Runs on Linux and Windows, primary development and testing is done on Linux.  Windows has limitations

         ( no interactive programs ) due to lack of pty support.

      

Requirements:

To use it you must have a python enabled [g]vim and run on a platform that supports pty ( i.e. Linux ),

or pipes ( Windows, Linux, et all ). The pty version has much better formatted output than the pipes

version and supports running interactive programs.  Please read vimsh.readme for other installation

details.  Tested on vim 6.0 using Slackware and Gentoo Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows XP.  

I'd also like to hear from users running other operating systems, i.e. QNX/Solaris/other BSDs.



!!!!! WINDOWS USERS !!!!!, there is a zip file available at the above link. The version

kept here on vimonline is a tarred, gzipped file ( tar.gz ). If you are going to use

Winzip with the .tar.gz file be sure to turn off the "Tar file smart CR/LF handling". It doesn't work

well.



Please send me bug reports and suggestions if you use it.  I appreciate all the patches

I've been getting lately!

You're welcome. It turns out that it works if you set it like this:

set cdpath+=C:/Documents\\\ and\\\ Settings/rpdooling

or like this:

let &cdpath = ",,,C:/Documents\\ and\\ Settings/rpdooling

I don't understand why and I'm trying to find out from the vim
mailing list, which is where that solution came from.

Regards,
Gary

A guy I work with told me about a function that an old IBM text editor had that he said was useful, and that is to create folds in the file after a search such that every line that is visible contains the search pattern(except possibly the first). All lines that do not contain the search pattern are folded up to the last occurence of the pattern or the top of the file.  

One use for such a function is to be able to make a quick and dirty api of a source file.  For example, if working in Java, you could run the function using the pattern "public|protected|private" and ithe results would be that only the method headers would be visible (well, close enough).  

(requires vim7.0aa snapshot #188 or later)

DrChip's cscope interface supports commands:



    CS     [cdefgist]   : cscope

    CSl[!] [cdefgist]   : locallist style (! restores efm)

    CSs[!] [cdefgist]   : split window and use cscope



    !            split vertically

    c (calls)    find functions calling function under cursor

    d (called)   find functions called by function under cursor

    e (egrep)    egrep search for the word under cursor

    f (file)     open the file named under cursor

    g (global)   find global definition(s) of word under cursor

    i (includes) find files that #include file named under cursor

    s (symbol)   find all references to the word under cursor

    t (text)     find all instances of the word under cursor

How can I work on VIM for python code such as cscope for C code?

Change to the top level directory that contains your python source
files, and do
find -name '*.py' > cscope.files
cscope -b

Vim Outliner is a vim plugin that turns the powerful vim editor into a powerful outliner of the likes of GrandView, More and MaxThink. It is keyboarder friendly and very fast. If you can touchtype, you can outline as fast as you think.

lets you embed options in the file itself so that other people who edit the file in vim will see it the way you do—all the tabs will line up correctly, etc., regardless of how they have their ~/.vimrc file set up. This is called a modeline, in the parlance of our times.

description
Several modern GUI editors list your open buffers as tabs along the top or bottom of your screen (VisualStudio, DreamWeaver, EditPlus and UltraEdit come to mind), now we have this feature in VIM! You can checkout a screenshot here: http://www.wavell.net/vim/vim_screenshot.gif.



You can quickly switch buffers by double-clicking the appropriate "tab" (if you don't want to use the mouse just put the cursor on the "tab" and press enter). As you open and close buffers the tabs get updated. Buffers that are modified get visually marked and buffers that are open in a window get visually marked. The -MiniBufferExplorer- opens automatically when you open more than one eligible buffer (no need to open the explorer if you’re only editing one file.) -MiniBufExplorer- doesn't bother showing non-modifiable or hidden buffers. You can delete buffers by selecting them and pressing d on the keyboard.

Applying substitutes to a visual block

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March 28, 2001 8:26
    
complexity:
 
intermediate


author:
 
Chip Campbell
    
as of Vim:
 
5.7

If you'd like to apply a substitute, or even any ex command, to a visual-block

selected text region (ctrl-v and move), then you'll want Stefan Roemer's

http://www.erols.com/astronaut/vim/vimscript/vis.vim .  Just source it in,

and then press ":B".  On the command line you'll see



:'<,'>BCtrl-V



Just continue with the substitute or whatever...



:'<,'>B s/abc/ABC/g



and the substitute will be applied to just that block of text

set shell=C:/cygwin/bin/bash

set shellcmdflag=--login\ -c

set shellxquote=\"