To make it work cross-platform, just put the following in your vimrc: nmap <F3> i<C-R>=strftime(“%Y-%m-%d %a %I:%M %p”)<CR><Esc> imap <F3> <C-R>=strftime(“%Y-%m-%d %a %I:%M %p”)<CR> Now you can just press F3 any time inside Vi/Vim and you’ll get a timestamp like 2016-01-25 Mo 12:44 inserted at the cursor. For a complete description of the available parameters … Read more
Use: :%y+ to yank all lines. Explanation: % to refer the next command to work on all the lines y to yank those lines + to copy to the system clipboard NB: In Windows, + and * are equivalent see this answer.
Here are two ways: escape the / which is the default substitute separator: :s/usrbin/\/usr\/bin use another substitute separator, e.g., using the hash # character: :s#usrbin#/usr/bin. Note that there are characters that you can’t use as a separator: “, \, | You can review this in the help subsystem using :h pattern-delimiter
If I want to swap one line with the line above I usually do the following ddkP Explanation dd will delete the line and add it to the default register. k will move up a line (j would move down a line) P will paste above the current line
Use the following: xnoremap p pgvy this will reselect and re-yank any text that is pasted in visual mode. Edit: in order this to work with “xp you can do: xnoremap p pgv”@=v:register.’y'<cr> v:register expands to the last register name used in a normal mode command.
Registers in Vim let you run actions or commands on text stored within them. To access a register, you type “a before a command, where a is the name of a register. If you want to copy the current line into register k, you can type “kyy Or you can append to a register by … Read more
As has been pointed out in a couple of other answers, the preferred method now is NOT to use smartindent, but instead use the following (in your .vimrc): filetype plugin indent on ” show existing tab with 4 spaces width set tabstop=4 ” when indenting with ‘>’, use 4 spaces width set shiftwidth=4 ” On … Read more
As others have said, you could use :set list which will, in combination with :set listchars=… display invisible characters. Now, there isn’t an explicit option which you can use to show whitespace, but in listchars, you could set a character to show for everything BUT whitespace. For example, mine looks like this :set listchars=eol:$,tab:>-,trail:~,extends:>,precedes:< so, … Read more
Use the > command. To indent five lines, 5>>. To mark a block of lines and indent it, Vjj> to indent three lines (Vim only). To indent a curly-braces block, put your cursor on one of the curly braces and use >% or from anywhere inside block use >iB. If you’re copying blocks of text … Read more
As ZyX said on #vim, this question sounds like “Why do Vim experts prefer tasty over warm?”. “Vim experts” don’t prefer buffers over tabs: they use buffers as the file proxies they are and tab pages as the workspaces they are. Buffers and tab pages have different purposes so preferring one to the other makes … Read more