Turn your vim editor into a productivity powerhouse

onebuck · 09-04-2018, 08:38 AM

Hi,

Turn your vim editor into a productivity powerhouse

Quote:

EDIT Editor's note: The headline and article originally referred to the "vi editor." It has been updated to the correct name of the editor: "vim."
03 Sep 2018 Girish Managoli

A versatile and powerful editor, vi includes a rich set of potent commands that make it a popular choice for many users. This article specifically looks at commands that are not enabled by default in vi but are nevertheless useful. The commands recommended here are expected to be set in a vi configuration file. Though it is possible to enable commands individually from each vi session, the purpose of this article is to create a highly productive environment out of the box.

Hope this helps.
Have fun & enjoy!

dopocaffe · 09-06-2018, 01:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by onebuck

Hi,

Turn your vi editor into a productivity powerhouse
Hope this helps.
Have fun & enjoy!

I just took a look and implemented a few of the ideas, thanks for submitting!

Beryllos · 09-07-2018, 08:40 AM

I was "forced" to learn vi in the 1990s and I wasn't very happy about it at the time. Today I'm glad I learned it, and of course I still use it, as the need arises.

Thanks for posting the great article.

dugan · 09-07-2018, 08:56 AM

Every vimrc should start with the following these days:

Code:

scriptencoding utf-8

if filereadable(expand('$VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim'))
    unlet! g:skip_defaults_vim
    source $VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim
endif

That starts you with the new default settings.

onebuck · 09-07-2018, 08:01 PM

Hi,
Thanks for pointing that out. I think new users of Gnu/Linux need input from experienced users. Any input to new users is a positive and we as experienced user have a tendency to forget our early years and fail to provide such by over looking our previous experiences.

Hope this helps.
Have fun & enjoy!

YesItsMe · 09-10-2018, 03:46 AM

The headline is wrong (and fixed in the original article). The number of people here who use vi instead of Vim or (the amazing) nvi would be limited anyway.

onebuck · 09-10-2018, 07:25 AM

Hi,

Thanks!

Corrected.

I still use vi and it can be found on most Gnu/Linux or UNIX. Moving between vi and vim should be transparent.

YesItsMe · 09-10-2018, 07:33 AM

More or less. If you plan to move from one to the other (which makes sense in both directions), Vim has a vi mode to make it easier:

Code:

:set compatible