vi reference links

2010-07-16 1 min read Linux Vim Tips

<a href="http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/vi2.html">http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/vi2.html
<a href="http://www.venukb.com/2007/01/28/vivim-graphical-cheat-sheet/">http://www.venukb.com/2007/01/28/vivim-graphical-cheat-sheet/
<a href="http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html">http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html
<a href="http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html#commands">http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html#commands

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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vim – get the list of all the scripts available.

2010-05-27 1 min read Learning Linux Vim Tips

To get a list of all the scripts in the vim.sf.net project, you can run the following command. This will list all the scripts with the script id.

wget -O – ’http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?&show_me=4000&result_ptr=0’ -o /dev/null | <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/grep" title="Grep" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep">grep width| grep script_id= |<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/sed" title="Sed" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed">sed ’s/.*script_id=//’|tr -d ”””|tr ”>” ” ”|sed ’s/< .*//’ | tr -d ’\001’-’\011’’\013’’\014’’\016’-’\037’’\200’-’\377’ |sort -n<h6 class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles by Zemanta <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.slumpedoverkeyboarddead.com/2009/09/17/use-curl-to-monitor-your-vonage-phone-bill/">Use curl to Monitor Your Vonage Phone Bill (slumpedoverkeyboarddead.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://securewebs.com/yum-updates/">Yum Updates (securewebs.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.gubatron.com/blog/2009/10/10/ubuntudebian-quick-reference-how-to-change-your-servers-utc-timezone-on-the-command-line/">Ubuntu/Debian Quick Reference: How To Change Your Server’s UTC Timezone on the command line (gubatron.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/2009/11/22/short-information-about-loaded-kernel-modules/">Short Information about loaded kernel modules (amit-agarwal.co.in) <div class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/b22b2e85-8107-4f9b-9130-85a8e8ae370b/"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/reblog_b52.png" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /><span class="zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog">

vi – the powerful Linux/Unix text editor

2010-05-12 1 min read Linux Vim Tips

We will talk about some vi stuff today:

Some fun first–>
1) <a href="http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=664">http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=664
2) help 42

Ok, coming to serious things-
References:
3) Linux cheat sheet:
<a href="http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/vi2.html">http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/vi2.html
4) <a href="http://www.venukb.com/2007/01/28/vivim-graphical-cheat-sheet/">http://www.venukb.com/2007/01/28/vivim-graphical-cheat-sheet/
5) <a href="http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html#commands">http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html#commands

Commands and tips:
6) Something that is difficult to find on the net is : how to create a numbered list in vi/vim? Simple, we will use macro's
To do this:
a> type number and terminatory ex: 1)
b> start recording using qa . This will record the macro in a.
c> yank the line with yy
d> goto next line
e> press a to increment the number
f> End the macro recording with q
g> Play the macro with numner of times to repeat the actions. Example press 11@a
7) For repeating the last command you can use
8) You can put your vim settings in ~/vimrc and this can containg things like "set nu" and any other configuration.
9) Adding date in vi : :r! date
10) There is a variant of vi known as elvis which is quite nice
11) Similarly for viewing binary file there is a variant called bvi

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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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

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.