VIM Editor

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.

Pyclewn is a python program that allows the use of the vim editor as a front end to a debugger. Pyclewn currently supports the gdb debugger.

Assuming you're in normal mode and cursor is on a '('. %x<C-O>x -ap

> Hello,  Is there a way to hilight different portions of statusline > using different colors? Thanks!

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

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.

Flydiff is a Vim plugin to perform on-the-fly diff on the current buffer with some version control system and show the differences in another buffer.

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

Applying substitutes to a visual block