Here is a simple command for you. It uses inotify tools. So first you need to install :
sudo yum install inotify-tools
and then you can try something like this:
while true; do inotifywait -r -e modify --exclude=".swp" . && make; done
Here, once the file changes, we are running make, but you can do anything you want.
You can use vim mappings to make some of your editor tasks very simple. Here I am giving you just a example, but you could always let your imagination run wild.
:nmap ,b Oj0c$**hP
And what do we do here.
O – Add a new line
– Go to normal mode
j – go to newly added line
0 – Go to begining of line
c$ – Change till end of line
****<Esc> – Enter four stars
h – go back one character.
P – Paste the last deleted line, which is what we deleted with c$.
This is just to show you how powerful, mappings can be. So, GO WILD with imagination.
Very quick update, to use registers, you can select and then yank in a register to paste using the same register. This could be a convinient way to copy multiple selections and then paste which ever selection you want. Here is the simple way to do it:
visuallly select with v/V
then “qy to yank (here we are yanking into register q, so in the command you can use any of a-z to use as register)
then “qp to paste..
To, view all the registers, you can use the command “registers”.
