Practical Vim, Second Edition (Stefano Alcazi) by Neil, Drew -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Acknowledgments Foreword to the First Edition Read Me

How This Book Is Structured A Note on the Examples Learn to Touch Type, Then Learn Vim

Read the Forgotten Manual

Get to Know Vim’s Built-in Documentation Notation for Simulating Vim on the Page Downloading the Examples Use Vim’s Factory Settings On the Role of Vim Script On Vim Versions

1. The Vim Way

Tip 1. Meet the Dot Command Tip 2. Don’t Repeat Yourself Tip 3. Take One Step Back, Then Three Forward Tip 4. Act, Repeat, Reverse Tip 5. Find and Replace by Hand Tip 6. Meet the Dot Formula

Part I. Modes

2. Normal Mode

Tip 7. Pause with Your Brush Off the Page Tip 8. Chunk Your Undos Tip 9. Compose Repeatable Changes Tip 10. Use Counts to Do Simple Arithmetic Tip 11. Don’t Count If You Can Repeat Tip 12. Combine and Conquer

3. Insert Mode

Tip 13. Make Corrections Instantly from Insert Mode Tip 14. Get Back to Normal Mode Tip 15. Paste from a Register Without Leaving Insert Mode Tip 16. Do Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations in Place Tip 17. Insert Unusual Characters by Character Code Tip 18. Insert Unusual Characters by Digraph Tip 19. Overwrite Existing Text with Replace Mode

4. Visual Mode

Tip 20. Grok Visual Mode Tip 21. Define a Visual Selection Tip 22. Repeat Line-Wise Visual Commands Tip 23. Prefer Operators to Visual Commands Where Possible Tip 24. Edit Tabular Data with Visual-Block Mode Tip 25. Change Columns of Text Tip 26. Append After a Ragged Visual Block

5. Command-Line Mode

Tip 27. Meet Vim’s Command Line Tip 28. Execute a Command on One or More Consecutive Lines Tip 29. Duplicate or Move Lines Using ‘:t’ and ‘:m’ Commands Tip 30. Run Normal Mode Commands Across a Range Tip 31. Repeat the Last Ex Command Tip 32. Tab-Complete Your Ex Commands Tip 33. Insert the Current Word at the Command Prompt Tip 34. Recall Commands from History Tip 35. Run Commands in the Shell Tip 36. Run Multiple Ex Commands as a Batch

Part II. Files

6. Manage Multiple Files

Tip 37. Track Open Files with the Buffer List Tip 38. Group Buffers into a Collection with the Argument List Tip 39. Manage Hidden Files Tip 40. Divide Your Workspace into Split Windows Tip 41. Organize Your Window Layouts with Tab Pages

7. Open Files and Save Them to Disk

Tip 42. Open a File by Its Filepath Using ‘:edit’ Tip 43. Open a File by Its Filename Using ‘:find’ Tip 44. Explore the File System with netrw Tip 45. Save Files to Nonexistent Directories Tip 46. Save a File as the Super User

Part III. Getting Around Faster

8. Navigate Inside Files with Motions

Tip 47. Keep Your Fingers on the Home Row Tip 48. Distinguish Between Real Lines and Display Lines Tip 49. Move Word-Wise Tip 50. Find by Character Tip 51. Search to Navigate Tip 52. Trace Your Selection with Precision Text Objects Tip 53. Delete Around, or Change Inside Tip 54. Mark Your Place and Snap Back to It Tip 55. Jump Between Matching Parentheses

9. Navigate Between Files with Jumps

Tip 56. Traverse the Jump List Tip 57. Traverse the Change List Tip 58. Jump to the Filename Under the Cursor Tip 59. Snap Between Files Using Global Marks

Part IV. Registers

10. Copy and Paste

Tip 60. Delete, Yank, and Put with Vim’s Unnamed Register Tip 61. Grok Vim’s Registers Tip 62. Replace a Visual Selection with a Register Tip 63. Paste from a Register Tip 64. Interact with the System Clipboard

11. Macros

Tip 65. Record and Execute a Macro Tip 66. Normalize, Strike, Abort Tip 67. Play Back with a Count Tip 68. Repeat a Change on Contiguous Lines Tip 69. Append Commands to a Macro Tip 70. Act Upon a Collection of Files Tip 71. Evaluate an Iterator to Number Items in a List Tip 72. Edit the Contents of a Macro

Part V. Patterns

12. Matching Patterns and Literals

Tip 73. Tune the Case Sensitivity of Search Patterns Tip 74. Use the \v Pattern Switch for Regex Searches Tip 75. Use the \V Literal Switch for Verbatim Searches Tip 76. Use Parentheses to Capture Submatches Tip 77. Stake the Boundaries of a Word Tip 78. Stake the Boundaries of a Match Tip 79. Escape Problem Characters

13. Search

Tip 80. Meet the Search Command Tip 81. Highlight Search Matches Tip 82. Preview the First Match Before Execution Tip 83. Offset the Cursor to the End of a Search Match Tip 84. Operate on a Complete Search Match Tip 85. Create Complex Patterns by Iterating upon Search History Tip 86. Count the Matches for the Current Pattern Tip 87. Search for the Current Visual Selection

14. Substitution

Tip 88. Meet the Substitute Command Tip 89. Find and Replace Every Match in a File Tip 90. Eyeball Each Substitution Tip 91. Reuse the Last Search Pattern Tip 92. Replace with the Contents of a Register Tip 93. Repeat the Previous Substitute Command Tip 94. Rearrange CSV Fields Using Submatches Tip 95. Perform Arithmetic on the Replacement Tip 96. Swap Two or More Words Tip 97. Find and Replace Across Multiple Files

15. Global Commands

Tip 98. Meet the Global Command Tip 99. Delete Lines Containing a Pattern Tip 100. Collect TODO Items in a Register Tip 101. Alphabetize the Properties of Each Rule in a CSS File

Part VI. Tools

16. Index and Navigate Source Code with ctags

Tip 102. Meet ctags Tip 103. Configure Vim to Work with ctags Tip 104. Navigate Keyword Definitions with Vim’s Tag Navigation Commands

17. Compile Code and Navigate Errors with the Quickfix List

Tip 105. Compile Code Without Leaving Vim Tip 106. Browse the Quickfix List Tip 107. Recall Results from a Previous Quickfix List Tip 108. Customize the External Compiler

18. Search Project-Wide with grep, vimgrep, and Others

Tip 109. Call grep Without Leaving Vim Tip 110. Customize the grep Program Tip 111. Grep with Vim’s Internal Search Engine

19. Dial X for Autocompletion

Tip 112. Meet Vim’s Keyword Autocompletion Tip 113. Work with the Autocomplete Pop-Up Menu Tip 114. Understand the Source of Keywords Tip 115. Autocomplete Words from the Dictionary Tip 116. Autocomplete Entire Lines Tip 117. Autocomplete Sequences of Words Tip 118. Autocomplete Filenames Tip 119. Autocomplete with Context Awareness

20. Find and Fix Typos with Vim’s Spell Checker

Tip 120. Spell Check Your Work Tip 121. Use Alternate Spelling Dictionaries Tip 122. Add Words to the Spell File Tip 123. Fix Spelling Errors from Insert Mode

21. Now What?

Keep Practicing! Make Vim Your Own Know the Saw, Then Sharpen It

A1. Customize Vim to Suit Your Preferences

Change Vim’s Settings on the Fly Save Your Configuration in a vimrc File Apply Customizations to Certain Types of Files

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