ViM - IMproved "visual editor"

refresh vim screen

Go to the beginning and end of line

Column mode vim | vertical selection with vim

help and useful commands in vim

Type ":help" in Vim to get started. Type ":help subject" to get help on a specific subject.

Some useful vim commands follow:

:set paste              - Turn on pasting mode.
:set nopaste            - Turn off pasting mode.
:set ai                 - Turn on autoindenting.
:set noai               - Turn off autoindenting.
:set textwidth=0        - Disable maximum text width.
:set textwidth=78       - Set max width that text can be insterted to 78.
:set list               - Show tabs as '^I' and end of line characters as '$'.
:set nolist             - Turn off list mode.
:syntax on              - Turn on syntax highlighting.
:set ruler              - should show a column ruler in vim..if you have a new enough version.
:set number             - shows line numbers, set nonumber to turn line numbers off.
:syntax off             - Turn off syntax highlighting.

Web Resources

su write vim

:w !sudo tee % > /dev/null 

search and replace in vi

Insert command output into document within vim

external applications and vi

status/tabline enhancements for vim

.files || dotfiles || vimfiles

vi convert tab to space

Switch to HEX edit mode using VIM

check for shebang and bind execution to F5

function! RunShebang()
  if (match(getline(1), '^\#!') == 0)
    :!./%
  else
    echo "No shebang in this file."
  endif
endfunction
map <F5> :call RunShebang()<CR>

unicode characters paste as . || paste unicode putty to vim

Vim Clutch

vim reopen last file alias

alias vl='vim -c "normal '\''0"'

vimdiff || vi diff

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