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Applying substitutes to a visual block  tip karma   Rating 155/45, Viewed by 8082  Read and edit this tip on the Vim tip wiki. The wiki may have a more recent version of this tip. created:   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

With the following, you can use g/ (or g?) to search forwards (or backwards) for the currently selected text.

You may have noticed that pasting outside text into Vim from insert mode can lead to awkwardly stair-stepped text. You may also know that this is easily avoidable via :set paste from normal mode. I paste from outside often enough, that I've added the following to my vimrc making it that much easier.set pastetoggle=<F5>

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

>What is the best practice to have variable values being echod/written >somewhere during execution which doens't impact the execution negatively?

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.

Vim already maintains a list of numbered registers containing the last 9 deletes.  These previous deletes can be referenced using [register]p, so "1p will paste the last delete, "2p the 2nd last delete.  For more information see |quote_number|. Vim does not provide any mechanism to reference previous yanked text.  In Emacs this feature is called the "kill ring".

(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

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).  

RE: repeating action between marks >Say for example I'd like to indent the text between lines 10-20. I'd >like to use marks points to indicate the lines through which to >repeat the last action I performed on a single line (in this case an >indentation), how would I do that? >I know I could for example do some regex like this: >:'a,'bs/^/ / >and clearly I can do this with a visual selection. >but how could I repeat the last action I performed over two marks: >:'a,'b<something goes here to indicate 'repeat last action'> '&' is a good start. Eg, if I use a 's///' command on one line just to see if it works as expected, I can repeat it through the entire file with :g//& :.,$& :15,20& etc., and it'll redo the 's///' command on the rest of the file or whatever limits you impose. If you do a non-'s///' command, eg, ":10,30>" to indent lines instead, you can look for patterns, etc., and do things like :/beginpattern/,/endpattern/> too. Not quite sure if that's what you were asking about, but if not, just yell back...