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Post your favorite Vim tricks (or plug-ins or scripts). One trick per answer.
Try to come up with something other than the basics, btw. :D
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Like many of you, my custom Vim configuration is stored in my ~/.vimrc, with the plugins, colors, etc. stored under ~/.vim/plugins, ~/.vim/colors, etc.
I want to share a single Vim configuration among many servers. Some of these servers run Vim 7, some run the older Vim 6. Most Vim plugins are intended…
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I'm trying to use Pathogen to manage my Vim extensions. My bundle folder looks like this:
.../bundle/
+-- vim-pathogen
¦ +-- autoload
¦ +-- pathogen.vim
+-- vim-smoothscroll
+-- autoload
+-- smooth_scroll.vim
And my vimrc file includes this:
let s:root = fnamemodify(resolve(expand(":p"))…
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I created a custom syntax file, and but none of the files in $VIMRUNTIME seem to load. I followed these pieces of the documentation:
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/filetype.html#new-filetype
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/syntax.html#mysyntaxfile
When I do
:echo &runtimepath
I…
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The "matchit" plugin for vim is supposed to allow you to use the % key to jump between matching start/end tags when editing HTML, as well as /* and */ comment delimiters when editing other kinds of code.
I've followed the exact instructions in ":help matchit", but % still doesn't work for me.
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I store, commands found at http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse, in a text file.
If I open this text file in Vim and I want to execute the command where the cursor is actually located I do copy the line with Y, switching to command mode with : and !CTRL+r*
Is there a more "lazy" possibility ;)
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