vim search multiple files

2010-03-25 1 min read Linux Vim Tips

Searching some pattern in multiple files is something that is required very often. There are multiple ways to do it, like <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/grep" title="Grep" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep">grep, <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006b66ec6" title="Ack (command-line utility)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ack_%28command-line_utility%29">ack, find and so on so forth. But if your editor already has the capability to do that, then why leave your favourite vi and go to shell. I will point you to some scripts and some wiki pages on how to do this 🙂

eclim for Fedora – Leonidas – installation.

2010-03-08 1 min read Linux Vim Tips

Here is the installation instruction for Eclim for vim. I have not tried it as I did not require it, but if you need it.

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/eclim/eclim/1.4.8/eclim_1.4.8.tar.gz?use_mirror=biznetnetworks

sudo ant -Declipse.home=/usr/lib/eclipse -Dvim.files=/home/amitag/.vim -Dplugins=cdt

create ctgs using

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Built-in lists in vim

2010-02-03 1 min read Learning Linux Vim Tips

<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/vimscript" title="Vimscript" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimscript">Vimscript provides excellent support for operating on collections of <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/data" title="Data" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data">data, a cornerstone of programming. In this third article in the series, learn how to use Vimscript’s built-in lists to ease everyday operations such as reformatting lists, filtering sequences of filenames, and sorting sets of line numbers. You’ll also walk through examples that demonstrate the power of lists to extend and enhance two common uses of <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/vim" title="Vim (text editor)" rel="homepage" href="http://www.vim.org/">Vim: creating a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/user_defined_function" title="User-defined function" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-defined_function">user-defined function to align assignment operators, and improving the built-in text completions mechanism.

using cscope with vim

2010-01-08 0 min read Linux Vim Tips

$\"Google$: Image by schoschie via Flickr

Here’s the best of the two links that I found with <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/google" title="Google" rel="homepage" href="http://google.com">Google and <a class="zem_slink" title="Bing" rel="homepage" href="http://bing.com/">Bing combined out of lots of links that I think can help you understand how to use cscope with vim, if you dont know already.

<a href="http://cscope.sourceforge.net/cscope_vim_tutorial.html">http://cscope.sourceforge.net/cscope_vim_tutorial.html
<a href="http://www.faqs.org/docs/ldev/0130091154_242.htm">http://www.faqs.org/docs/ldev/0130091154_242.htm

Finding all numbers that are bigger than 1 in vim

2009-12-24 1 min read Fedora Linux Vim Tips

/^([2-9]d*|1d+)
If we have a csv like structure

The trick here is simple, lets look at the regex from the begining:

^ – start from the begining
() – start and end of block
[] – digits within this. So we are looking from 2 to 9 to exclude the numbers begining with 1
d – search for digits

– search for one or more
| – or operation
1 – search for numbers begining with 1

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Know when you will type :q in your term instead of vi(m), the alias will chewed you out.

2009-12-20 1 min read Bash Vim Tips

most simple solution is to alias :q like so:
alias :q=`echo ”This is not vim”`

but as someone suggested in commandlinefu, you can use tput to put some color and fun into this.
alias :q=’tput setaf 1; echo >&2 ”this is NOT vi(m) :/”; tput sgr0’

Add current date and time in vim

2009-11-20 1 min read Linux Vim Tips

Last few days I was quite busy. So this time very quick tip 🙂

Add the following to the ~/.vimrc file

imap dt :r! dateA

And now whenever you type dt in the insert mode in vi, date will be inserted.