vim.md

Vim

http://www.vimninjas.com/

profile Vim startup time

Requires vim 7.2.269+

vim --startuptime start.log

Sort on a virtual column

:sort /.*\%10v/

Get filetype

:set filetype?

Show line numbers

:set number

Inserting glyphs

ctrl-k starts digraph mode

:help digraphs

g8 - see bytes for UTF-8 character

Omnicompletion

Set shell

:set shell=/bin/bash

Redraw shell

ctrl-l

Regular expressions

:help pattern-searches

• http://www.vimregex.com/

Search and replace

desc	letter
Confirm substitutions	c
Replace all line occurrences in the line (not just first)	g
Ignore case	i
Case insensitive	I

Character classes

:help character-classes

Uppercase for inverse

desc	mc
any character except new line	.
tab or space character	\s
printable character	\p
filename character	\f
keyword character	\k
identifier character	\i
digit	\d
hex digit	\x
octal digit	\o
word character [a-zA-Z_]	\w
head of word character	\h
alphabetic character	\a
lowercase character	\l
uppercase character	\u

Delete all lines containing a pattern

:g/profile/d
:g/^\s*$/d

slimv

desc	key
connect to SWANK server	,c
evaluate defun	,d
evaluate buffer	,b
evaluate region	,r
evaluate current expression	,e
open symbol documentation	,s
open symbol underneath in HyperSpec	,h
Slimv menu	,,

• https://github.com/kovisoft/slimv
• https://kovisoft.github.io/slimv-tutorial/

tabs

# Open a session from CLI
vim -S session.vim

desc	keys
next tab	gt
previous tab	gT

Modelines

<!-- vim: set nospell: -->

Non-greedy regex matching

Note the \{

s/function(.\{-})//