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Practical Vim

Practical Vim - vimcasts-by-drew-neil

Chapters

  • 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
  • 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 RepeatDon’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 LineMeet 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 10. Copy and Paste
    • Tip 60. Delete, Yank, and Put with Vim's Unnamed Register
    • Tip 61. Grok Vim's RegistersGrok 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
  • 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
  • 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