Comments on: Configuring Vim right

By: Luca G.

Luca G. — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:57:32 +0000

Thanks! This post is incredibly useful!

By: Ben Thomasson

Ben Thomasson — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:37:33 +0000

Thanks, I’ve been using vim for years and I’ve learned quite a few things from this post.

By: Making vi more colourful on the mac « fredsherbet.com

Making vi more colourful on the mac « fredsherbet.com — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:11:08 +0000

[...] This site has lots of useful configuration options to consider to make vim more useful. [...]

By: Adam Katz

Adam Katz — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:24:41 +0000

Refined the gvimrc portion you inherited from me to better handle sizing (especially useful for gvimdiff), fixed (upgraded?) buggy matchit line:

" who needs .gvimrc?  (people in irc://irc.freenode.net#vim say this is limited)
if has('gui_running')
  set guifont=Monospace\ 7.5   " this is not limited to integers
  if &diff
    autocmd GuiEnter * set columns=165 lines=50
  else
    autocmd GuiEnter * set columns=80 lines=40
  end
end
set diffopt+=iwhite             " ignore whitespace in diff mode
 
" from sbach, http://items.sjbach.com/319/configuring-vim-right
" and http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=39
"runtime macros/matchit.vim
filetype plugin on
source ~/.vim/plugin/matchit.vim

By: craschworks » Blog Archive » links for 2009-06-25

craschworks » Blog Archive » links for 2009-06-25 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:02:26 +0000

[...] Configuring Vim right – items.sjbach.com have spent a lot of time looking at a Vim window, and correspondingly, a lot of time testing different configurations. These are the best non-standard options I have found or stolen from others over the years; listed below in order of descending usefulness â though I think everything in this article is worth skimming â are tips which should have value to anyone, no matter how they like to run Vim. That is, there is minimal editorializing. (tags: programming/vim vim, vimrc) [...]

By: Steve Francia

Steve Francia — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:33:21 +0000

Vim is a good editor, made great with a custom .vimrc file. My .vimrc file adds syntax highlighting, autocomplete with tab, folding and highlights the line you are on. Feel free to use or modify it for your needs. Here is my .vimrc file And my guide to the best 15 vim plugins

By: Stephen Bach

Stephen Bach — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:19:34 +0000

Hi Jim, you have a point. I rely heavily on visual-mode, so I would more likely do this as “V j j j d” — I tend to use marks only for navigating text, rather than for manipulating it. But this isn’t true of everyone and it’s good to get a different view.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:59:54 +0000

Nice writeup. I would recommend against your suggestion #2, however. Apostrophe is a line movement command, and Backtick is a text movement command. Since vim is both line editor and a text editor, it makes a big difference which you use. Personally, I use line commands way more often than text commands, as they are quicker to fire off. "ma j j j d'a" will cut 4 lines of text, no matter what column your cursor is in. Likewise, you can paste these w/o regard for the cursor column and vim does the right thing (@" is marked as a line register from the cut). I guess this thing would depend on your usage pattern of course.

By: Making Vim your default | stackq

Making Vim your default | stackq — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:45:47 +0000

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By: vimrc updated - /dev/null

vimrc updated - /dev/null — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:45:40 +0000

[...] that the vimrc I provide via bzr (or via direct link) has been updated. Tom recently found a site or two that had some nifty settings I hadn’t stumbled across yet. Changes [...]