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Ex Ranges

  • source
  • place cursor on line 4
  • :1,+1p (line 1 through line 5)
  • :1;+2p (line 1 through line 2, note that this moves the cursor)

'clipboard

  • :set clipbboard=unnamedplus to make default yank etc go to "+
  • Handy when doing lots of migrating from one doc to another

"0 / "1 / "_

  • "0 is populated by yank, not delete.
  • "1 is populated by change or delete unless a register is specified.
  • "_ can be used to disable the population of any register.

Regex Tricks

  • \V ~~ grep -F
  • %( ~~ perl's (?:
  • \zs / \ze controls match
    • s/foo \zsbar\ze baz/biff/ replaces foo bar baz with foo biff baz

q: / q/

  • relevant blog post
  • edit search or command history in command window
  • press <C-f> to upgrade to this
  • press <Enter> to exit

:t / :m

  • Allows "remote" copying (ie no moving cursor)
  • Examples:
  • :t . == yyp
  • :1t 2 == copy line one to line 3 (or to the end of line 2)
  • :m does the same thing, except moves instead of copies

:g / :vg

  • Runs an ex command for each match
  • :g/\v^\s*#/delete
  • :vg inverts the match (like grep -v)

:makeprg / 'errorformat

  • Investigate using these for more automation

Wild Mode

When tab completing files (etc) use C-N or C-P to go forward or back in the list, respectively.

Profiling

Profiling TL;DR:

  1. Start a profile to a file with :profile start <filename>
  2. Pick what you profile with a pattern: :profile! file {pattern}

Here's how I debugged an issue with :Done being too slow:

#!/bin/sh

exec vim --cmd 'profile start prof.result' \
    --cmd 'profile! file *' \
    -S ~/.vvar/sessions/wnotes \
    -c 'Done'