If you’re on some kind of UNIX (Linux, etc), you can cheat and filter it through the column(1) command. :%!column -t The above will parse on delimiters inside string literals which is wrong, so you will likely need pre-processing steps and specifying the delimiter for this file for example: %!sed ‘s/”,”/\&/’ | column -t -s … Read more
Some tips: Make sure you use vim (vi improved). Linux and some versions of UNIX symlink vi to vim. You can get code completion with eclim Or you can get vi functionality within Eclipse with viPlugin Syntax highlighting is great with vim Vim has good support for writing little macros like running ant/maven builds Have … Read more
While in insert mode hit CTRL-R {register} Examples: CTRL-R * will insert in the contents of the clipboard CTRL-R ” (the unnamed register) inserts the last delete or yank. To find this in vim’s help type :h i_ctrl-r
See the command search sequence on Microsoft Docs The PATH and PATHEXT environmental variables each provide an element of the search sequence: PATH is the ordered list of directories “where” to look, and PATHEXT is the ordered list of file extensions (“what“) to look for (in case the extension isn’t explicitly provided on the command … Read more
This still bothers me. I only just decided that the best work-around (for me personally) is this: :set filetype=html And then highlight your text and hit =. BOOM! HTML formatting succes. (Not ideal, I know, but at least it works.)
The problem There are two ways for a terminal emulator to send an Alt key (usually called a Meta key as actual terminals didn’t have Alt). It can either send 8 bit characters and set the high bit when Alt is used, or it can use escape sequences, sending Alt-a as <Esc>a. Vim expects to … Read more
:!gcc -o somename % && ./somename When using :!, % will be substituted by the name of the currently opened file. When your project becomes larger, you can also write a makefile and compile the current project with :make, if there are any errors, vim will jump to them automatically.
With :%s/^/\=line(‘.’)/ EDIT: to sum up the comments. This command can be tweaked as much as you want. Let’s say you want to add numbers in front of lines from a visual selection (V + move), and you want the numbering to start at 42. :'<,’>s/^/\=(line(‘.’)-line(“‘<“)+42)/ If you want to add a string between the … Read more
As a command, type :%s/^M$// (To get ^M, press ^V ^M, where ^ is CTRL on most keyboards)
First of all, from __future__ import print_function needs to be the first line of code in your script (aside from some exceptions mentioned below). Second of all, as other answers have said, you have to use print as a function now. That’s the whole point of from __future__ import print_function; to bring the print function … Read more