when you press f9 'paste' is on , press f9 again and 'paste' is off, and so forth (works in insert-mode and command-mode)

2010-08-02 1 min read Bash Linux

<a class="zem_slink" title="Vim (text editor)" rel="homepage" href="http://www.vim.org/">vim’s pastetoggle: when you press f9 ’paste’ is on , press f9 again and ’paste’ is off, and so forth (works in <a class="zem_slink" title="Insert key" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insert_key">insert-mode and command-mode) $ nmap :set paste!:set paste? Sets as paste toggle, with visual confirmation of state

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jumps and marks in vim

2010-07-11 3 min read Linux Vim Tips

First we will talk about jumps in vim. Very useful for <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/navigation" title="Navigation" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation">navigation and jumping around the vim. The jumps are commands that lets you jump from one location to another location, like {{ or [[ and so on … From the help file of vim

A ”jump” is one of the following commands: ”’”, ”`”, ”G”, ”/”, ”?”, ”n”,
”N”, ”%”, ”(”, ”)”, ”[[”, ”]]”, ”{”, ”}”, ”:s”, ”:tag”, ”L”, ”M”, ”H” and
the commands that start editing a new file. If you make the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/cursor" title="Cursor (computers)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursor_%28computers%29">cursor ”jump”
with one of these commands, the position of the cursor before the jump is
remembered. You can return to that position with the ”’’” and ”“” command,
unless the line containing that position was changed or deleted.
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bash script to change the vim colorscheme from the list of locally available schemes

2010-06-24 0 min read Bash Fedora Learning Linux Vim Tips

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Today I was just wondering how good it would be to have a script to change the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/vim" title="Vim (text editor)" rel="homepage" href="http://www.vim.org/">vim colorscheme from the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/cmd_exe" title="Command Prompt" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_Prompt">command prompt. The plan for the script was simply to print the list of available schemes and then let the user select the actions from there on. So, here is the result:

In (any) vi, add a keystroke to format the current paragraph.

2010-04-11 1 min read Linux

<a id="aptureLink_F2g9MXMw3t" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi">vi editor is very powerful in the sense that you can use maps, abbreviations and recordings. One such example is when you are trying to write a email or trying to write a paragraph and you want to format it. You can create a mapping like so, in your .exrc or .vimrc and use it to format the paragraph.

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bash script to change vim colorscheme based on the available themes

2010-04-11 0 min read Fedora Vim Tips

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Here’s one script that you may find useful. A little variation or wrapper for this script can make your life colorful 🙂

You can write a wrapper to this to take one of the inputs randomly and then use it in alias to start <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/vim" title="Vim (text editor)" rel="homepage" href="http://www.vim.org/">vim.

using paragraph seperator in vi – the easy way

2010-04-07 1 min read Vim Tips

imap aa 80i-io

Just put this in the vimrc or in a vi session with a : in normal mode.

Explanation:

This will map the key ”aa” to the sequence which will add ”-” 80 times in the current line and then go to new line in insert mode. This is quite simple so any changes required should be simple enough to make.

vim scripts and tips

2010-03-29 1 min read Linux Vim Tips

Here are few of the links for vim that you can use. It consists of the link to vimrc, colorscheme, syntaxcomplete and zzsplash.
<a href="http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/User:Tonymec/vimrc">http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/User:Tonymec/vimrc
<a href="http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/User:Tonymec/almost-default.vim">http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/User:Tonymec/almost-default.vim
<a href="http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/User:Tonymec/syntaxcomplete.vim">http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/User:Tonymec/syntaxcomplete.vim
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