Occasionally I’d like to use some portion of contents from a buffer/ file in a
vim command. Copying and pasting with a mouse/ touchpad is is a flow killer for
me. There’s a way to paste the contents of a vim register in the vim command
window. Using <C-r> in command mode will interpret the next character(s)
as a register and insert the contents of the register into the vim command!
While pairing a coworker remarked that I’m able to jump around in vim quite
quickly. While I use a number of techniques to jump around, including
gf,
rails-vim A, R and their family. I
came up with a variation on the ever handy *. Using the star
will jump to the next occurrence of the word under the cursor. This jump
jump is limited to the current file. I thought it might be handy to
have a leader command to quickly be able to
Ggrep for <cword> (the word
under the cursor).
How I search for patterns in VIM just improved a bit today. Generally I’d search like so:
Continue reading »I recently began freelancing again, which means working on many different projects. Diverse projects bring diverse needs with respect to vim configuration. For example commands to fire off tests can vary based on testing framework or file system layout.
Continue reading »If you’ve ever diffed a file in Vim or otherwise had two corresponding splits,
you may have wished for a way to scroll them together. Vim can do just that
with scrollbind.