Advanced Vim (Vi Improved)

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Topics ● What Vi users should know about Vim ● Using Vim to go perform Electronic Archeology (digging through legacy code) ● How to create a syntax coloring scheme or modify an existing one ● Scripting with Vim's internal language and using Perl for Vim scripting

What every Vi User Should Know About Vim

Turning on the new features Warning: By default Vim tries to act like Vi. This means that many of Vim's best features are turned off unless you tell Vim to operate in Vim mode. To tell Vim to be Vim create the file: $HOME/.vimrc

Starting ● vim – Start in current window ● gvim – Start in it's own GUI

First Commands ● Undo works multiple times (Use CTRL-R to redo a change) ● :help Help is actually very informative and useful!

Multiple Windows ● Open a new window :split file ● Go Up / Down a window CTRL-Wj CTRL-Wk ● Open a new window (vertical) :vsplit file ● Go Left / Right a window CTRL-Wh CTRL-Wl

Tabbed Editing ● To open a new tab: :tabnew file

Searching Features ● Highlight Searching :set hlsearch ● (Good for regular expression creation too!) ● Incremental Searching :set incsearch

Search History ● Use / then / to browse history ● (Also works for command (:) mode)

Spelling ● Turn on spelling :set spell ● List possible corrections for the word under the cursor z= ● Use the mouse to suggest spelling :set mousemodel=popup

Visual Mode ● Normal way to delete three words d3w ● Visual mode way v – Start visual mode www – Move over three words (3w works too) (Text is highlighted) d – Delete the highlighted text