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.

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’

Multiple search in vim

2009-11-19 1 min read Learning Linux

I was looking at a log file and needed to highlight multiple search items to make the logs more readable. I got into multiple threads suggesting various cryptic vim commands but I was in no mood to remember them. So, I finally hit <a href="http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=479" target="_blank">this.

This is a cool vim script which you can use to highlight multiple search patter. You can simply add a search term by doing

Vi/VIM and Unix/Linux cheatsheets.

2009-10-26 1 min read Linux

I found quite a lot of good information today morning.

Some really good info on vi/vim. I liked the this one:”Also, you don’t have to use the / command as a separator. Anything typed after s will become the separator”

<a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/06/206213&from=rss" target="_blank">http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/06/206213&from=rss

Some of the best collection of vi/vim tips: (though a lot of them do not have explanations)

<a href="http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Best_Vim_Tips" target="_blank">http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Best_Vim_Tips

Top 10 Best Cheat Sheets and Tutorials for Linux / UNIX Commands