VIM Editor

Andrew schrieb: > Is there a way to get GVim to auto-`cd` to a dropped file's directory? > My gripe is that when I `:sav` the edited file giving it a new name, it > ends up in my home directory, which *of course* is not what I'd want to > do. > I'm using version 7.0.237 on KDE 3.5 for Linux. > Thanks in advance, > Andrew     :h drag-n-drop hold down Shift while dropping the file. For similar situations, I need this often but not always, thus I mapped a function key to it:     :nn <F3> :cd %:p:h<cr>     :h ::p If you want it always, set 'autochdir'     :h 'acd

lternative: if your file has indent 4 and you want an indent of 3 and gg=G is not working as expected, try :set inde=indent(v:lnum)/4*3 then go ahead with the well known gg=G use tabs or spaces, doesn't matter

It allows you to quickly toggle (through a keybinding, Ctrl-D by default) the highlighting of changed lines in a file through an SCM's diff command.

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.

 (1) blah blah  (2) more blah blah (3) still more blah blah (4)... (5)... Now I finish point (2) and delete the line from my list. I manually renumber a long list for all points after (2). Does vim make this task any easier?

There's visincr... You can get visincr from:

Abusing the "\=" replacement evaluation described at    :help sub-replace-special you can do something like   :.,$s/(\zs\d\+\ze)/\=submatch(0)-1

 "Give your most complex macros a name and store it for future recall and use" Problem statement(s): Can't remember those complex VIM macro sequences you use frequently?Wish you could save those macros beyond your immediate session? Wish you could share your VIM macros with each other? Why not templates as well in the same script?

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.

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.

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.

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]'

ERRCONDS = select.POLLHUP|select.POLLERR

>  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

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.