Built-in lists in vim

<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&#8217;s built-in lists to ease everyday operations such as reformatting lists, filtering sequences of filenames, and sorting sets of line numbers. You&#8217;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

Here&#8217;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

7 Examples for Sed Hold and Pattern Buffer Operations

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

most simple solution is to alias :q like so:
alias :q=`echo &#8221;This is not vim&#8221;`

but as someone suggested in commandlinefu, you can use tput to put some color and fun into this.
alias :q=&#8217;tput setaf 1; echo >&2 &#8221;this is NOT vi(m) :/&#8221;; tput sgr0&#8217;

Multiple search in vim

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

stop indentation on current file in vim to keep the indentation from copied text.

I have been looking for this for quite some time. Finally found two easy ways to do it:

:setlocal noautoindent
:setlocal nocindent
:setlocal nosmartindent
:setlocal indentexpr=

Just use the above four commands when the file is already open to stop all the indentation/smart indentation/auto indentation in vim for the current file. If you want to map it then you can use shorthand notations and map it in the .vimrc file.