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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?

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

>  I was wondering if there's any debugger written specifically for Vim >  code?   I've got a thorny problem on a vim plugin on Solaris (I can't >  share the code) and stepping through the code would be lovely (though I >  realize this could be difficult, given the nature of vim). As I am sure you found out from Tony's post Vim has a built in debugger for Vim scripts. What I would suggest to you is to download and use this plugin by Hari: " BreakPts - Debug Vim Scripts " Author: Hari Krishna Dara " http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=618 I use it regularly and love it. HTH, Dave

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!

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.

Vimplugin is an Eclipse plugin that brings the power of the editor Vim to the Eclipse IDE. Vim is one of the most powerful editors around. But it is not an IDE. On the other hand, Eclipse is one of the most powerful IDEs. But its editor lacks many of the features vim offers. Vim is lean, Eclipse is extensible. So, just take the best of two worlds.

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".

This is the Vim cookbook page. It contains short recipes for doing many simple and not so simple things in Vim. You should already know the basics of Vim, however each command is explained in detail. Each set of instructions is a complete package. Feel free to pick and choose what you need.

VimMate is a graphical add-on to Vim with IDE-like features: it does more than the plain Vim while still being lightweight. Even with the additional features, it stays out of the way for it's main task: editing files with Vim. VimMate adds functionality to Vim by embedding Vim GTK GUI (gVim) within VimMate.

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:

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.

Here's a little Vim trick that might be of interest. If you're on a non-Windows machine, you can make the Vim hardcopy command print to a postscript file instead of a real printer. Try issue the following::hardcopy > file.ps

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]'

The "Tag List" plugin is a source code browser plugin for Vim and provides an overview of the structure of source code files and allows you to efficiently browse through source code files for different programming languages.  You can visit the taglist plugin home page for more information

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.

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.

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.