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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!

In Vim, the unnamed register is the " register, and the Windows Clipboard is the * register. This means that if you yank something, you have to yank it to the * register if you want to paste it into a Windows app. If this is too much trouble, set the 'clipboard' option to 'unnamed'. Then you always yank to *. So pasting to windows apps doesn't require prefixing "* :   set   clipboard=unnamed

You can also have the Visual selection automatically copied to the clipboard.  If you :set go+=a

Nevertheless, spawning a shell in a VIM window is something I desperately sought after since the first day I started working with VIM, and searching on Google reveals that I'm not the only person. Someone even hacked together a Python script so you can start a shell in a window, but it's no terminal emulator, so your possibilities with this "shell" are limited. I wanted to have a real, working shell in VIM, so I wouldn't have to switch around with screen, use half-hearty solutions like splitvt etc.

This tip provides a (Windows only) means of using gvim as an external editor for almost any other program. This script has been tested with Lotus Notes and Internet Explorer on Windows NT.

ERRCONDS = select.POLLHUP|select.POLLERR

Cursor line and more... * You can turn on cursor line and cursor columns ':set cursorline' ':set cursorcolumn'

* Pressing 'q:' or ':<Ctrl-f>' gives the command history window (list of previously executed commands in the current session) * Pressing 'q/' or '/<Ctrl-f>' gives the command history window (list of previously executed commands in the current session)

Note: to highlight special keywords we can use the match option as ':hi <MyGroup> ctermbg=red' ':mat <MyGroup> /<pattern>/' To clear these highlights do ':mat[ch]'

File exploringAlright. You need two plugins, NERDTree and BufExplorer.NERDTree is started by typing :NERDTree and it will give you a much better file explorer than any other IDE. BufExplorer is started by typing \be and it will allow you to access a list of recently used files, and switch between them quickly.You might also want to bone up on windows and tabs (:help windows and :help tabs)

The Wildmenu The best vim feature is the wildmenu. Add a set wildmenu to your vimrc and discover the possibilities of filesystem surfing ^^ Enter :e in the command line and press ^D. Vim will show you all possibitilites in a nice little window. By entering the start of a filename and pressing tab it completes for you then. If it was a folder you can now press ^D again to get the contents. Once you finished the command this window will disappear again and you can continue working. Works of course for all commands not only the open command.

This is a utility that performs a recursive diff on two directories and generate a diff "window".  Based on that window you can perform various diff operations such as opening two files in Vim's diff mode, copy the file or directory recursively to the other, or remove the directory tree from the source directory.

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.

to auto-indent a piece of code, highlight it in visual mode, and press =. To auto-indent the current line, press ==. Use gq to wrap the highlighted peice of text.

SuperTab: Makes all insert-mode completion done with tab. To use, simply press TAB while in edit mode. minibufexpl: Adds a buffer explorer to the top of Vim's window, simplifies working with buffers. taglist: A source code browser that works with many languages, including C/C++, Java, Python, Perl, PHP, ... vcscommand: SVN/CVS integration.

This script provides many useful utility functions for buffers, windows and other misc things. I needed a place to share all the misc. utility functions so I renamed bufNwinUtils.vim and started adding these additional functions. I intend to create/collect many more useful functions and add to this script.

Clewn implements full gdb support in the vim editor: breakpoints, watch variables, gdb command completion, assembly windows, etc.

The grep plugin integrates the grep, fgrep, egrep, and agrep tools with Vim and allows you to search for a pattern in one or more files and jump to them. To use this plugin, you need the grep, fgrep, egrep, agrep, find and xargs utilities. These tools are present in most of the Unix installations. For MS-Windows systems, you can download the GNU grep and find utilities from the following sites:

The GVim Portable Launcher allows you to run GVim from a removable drive whose letter changes as you move it to another computer. The program can be entirely self-contained on the drive and then used on any Microsoft Windows computer.

Following my thoughts yesterday, here are some VIM python scripts to add python breakpoint and debugging features to VIM. With this set up the F7 key will set a breakpoint on a line of code, Shift-F7 will remove all breakpoints and Shift-F12 will execute a script in the python debugger. This only runs on windows as far as I know, because it uses the 'start' command to launch the debugger in a seperate process without VIM waiting for it to finish. This allows you to look through the source code (and fix it) while the debugging is still in progress.

(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

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