andrew's guide to vim
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This document provides an overview of the Vim text editor, including basics, using Vim as a notepad, advanced concepts, using Vim as an IDE, and miscellaneous information. The basics section covers what Vim is, its history, versions, and modes. Using Vim as a notepad describes navigation, editing, selection, and command options. Advanced concepts discusses help, encoding, scripts, buffers, registers, and macros. Using Vim as an IDE previews features like project management, file exploration, autocompletion, and compilation support through plugins. The miscellaneous section lists download sites and instructions for building Vim from source.
![Vim as notepad – Normal
Move globally:
G: to the end of file
gg: to the start of tile
number+gg: to specified line
% on {[()]}: the mapping bracket](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/aguidetovim-140908195659-phpapp01/85/andrew-s-guide-to-vim-14-320.jpg)
andrew's guide to vim
- 2. Contents 1 Basics 2 Vim as notepad 3 Advanced concepts 4 Vim as IDE 5 miscellaneous
- 4. Basic – background info Vim means Vi Improved first released publicly in 1991 license is compatible with GPL Popular with GNU/Linux
- 5. Basic – give up it Learning vim is difficult
- 6. Basic – version Latest release: 7.4 Please update to latest version Plugins Tab edit mode :help version7
- 7. Basic – platform gVim
- 8. Basic – mode Normal I/O/A… Esc/Ctrl+C Q/: Visual/Esc Insert Command
- 9. Contents 2 Vim as notepad
- 10. Vim as notepad – Insert Ctrl-y/e: copy chars from prev/next line Ctrl-n/p: auto complete word
- 11. Vim as notepad – Normal Begin to Insert: I: insert at the beginning of line A: insert at the end of line a: insert after cursor O: start new line upon current line o: start new line below
- 12. Vim as notepad – Normal Move within line: $: move to the end 0: move to the beginning of line w: move a word forward b: move a word backward f+char: move to next char F+char: move to prev char
- 13. Vim as notepad – Normal Move within page: H: high / on top M: middle / in them middle L: low / at bottom Move within file: Ctrl-f: forward by page Ctrl-b: backward by page
- 14. Vim as notepad – Normal Move globally: G: to the end of file gg: to the start of tile number+gg: to specified line % on {[()]}: the mapping bracket
- 15. Vim as notepad – Normal Find word when cursor on word: *: forward #: backward Find word with input word: /: forward ?: backward n to repeat and N to reverse repeat
- 16. Vim as notepad – Normal selection(also visual) shift+v: select line ctrl+v: select block v: select char sequences And then? y: copy p: paste d:delete
- 17. Vim as notepad – command set nu set hlsearch set ignorecase set tabstop=4 set wrap ……
- 18. Vim as notepad – window :edit filename :tabedit filename :split filename :vsplit filename Ctrl-w + Ctrl-w/hjkl: jump between windows
- 19. Contents 3 Advanced concepts
- 20. Advanced – get help use :help xxx Just google it
- 21. Advanced – encoding :set fileencodings? :set encoding? :set fileencoding?
- 22. Advanced – scripts Put the commands into a file then we get a script: Script can: customize vim enhance functions
- 23. Advanced – scripts Customize: File location: File Name:
- 24. Advanced – scripts :scriptnames<CR> A bundle of script(s) set up a plugin
- 25. Advanced – buffer :buffers Window: Tab:
- 26. Advanced – buffer buffers and tab: Eclpse: (Ctrl-e) vim buffexplorer:
- 27. Advanced – register Registers: Use “ to call them
- 28. Advanced – record/macros q start record, q again to stop It’s programmer’s way of thinking! But there is no ‘if’ Use @ to loop
- 29. Contents 4 Vim as IDE
- 30. Vim as IDE – preview What IDE provides us with: 1, project management 2, file explorer 3, multiple file editor 4, auto-completion 5, reference/jump to definition 6, project compilation
- 31. Vim as IDE – preview Project Mangement: Project
- 32. Vim as IDE – preview File explorer: NERDTree
- 33. Vim as IDE – preview Multiple file edit: bufexplorer/airline
- 34. Vim as IDE – preview Auto-completion: omnicppcomplete
- 35. Vim as IDE – preview reference/jump to definition: Taglist/Ctags
- 36. Vim as IDE – preview Compilation: make: compile cc: show you current info cl: show you info list cw: open info window cn: bring you to next err/warning cp: brin gyou to previous
- 37. Vim as IDE – scripts Scripts used: Project Bufexplorer NERDTree Omnicppcomplete Taglist Airline Kolor.vim andrew’s vim – mine vimrc …
- 38. Vim as IDE – give it up Too much labor work Not as fast as you may expect Not so intelligent How to debug?
- 39. Vim as IDE – give it up Life is short, use python. Life is short, use an IDE.
- 41. Miscellaneous – websites Official: http://www.vim.org/ Wiki: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_T ips_Wiki
- 42. Miscellaneous – downloads Download: http://www.vim.org/download.php Sources: ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.4.tar.bz2 For windows: ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/gvim74.exe
- 43. Miscellaneous – build 1, mkdir ${HOME}/personal_tools 2, cd ${HOME}/personal_tools 3, wget ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.4.tar.bz2 4, tar xf vim-74.tar.bz2 5, cd vim74 && ./configure --with-features=huge -- prefix=${home}/personal_tools && make && make install 6, export PATH=${HOME}/personal_tools/bin:${PATH} 7, vim
- 45. LOGO