Vim-Advanced.md – Vim Advanced cheatsheet

Commands

Edit

`T,c,`	Delete between coma
`:b#<bar>bd#`	delete buffer
`C`	= `c$`: Change to end of line
`S`	= `^C`: Change from first non blank to EOL
`gq`motion	Filter format
`g=`motion	Filter indent
`!<motion><cmd>`	Filter by

Move

`'.`	Last edit location
`g-`	Last non blank character (Vs `_` or `^`)
`gm`	Middle of line
`n<bar>`	Column n of current line
`ab` `aB`	Select a block ( ), a block { }
`-` `+`	line up, down on first non-blank character

Move cursor

`zl, zh, zL, zH`	Scrool horizontally, one char or screen
`zt`, `zz`, `zb`	Cursor top middle, bottom
`<C-W>Z`	`:pc[lose]`: Close previw window
`1gt`	Goto tab 1

Ex tips 1/2

`:w !sudo tee %`	Save as root
`:set nrformat+=alpha`	`<C-A>` works with alphabet chars
`:sort [u] [n]`	Sort [Unique] [Numerals (so 100 after 20)
`:echo 5e9x20`	Simple Math
`:q:`, `q/`	Ex, Search Windows
`normal @a`	Execute register a in this line
`g/{/_.+1,/-1 sort`	Sort between { and }
`:sort n/$\S\+\s\+$\{2}/`	Sort by 2nd column

Ex tips 2/2

`:%s/^/\=printf('%-4d', line('.'))`	Prefix line by line number
`:set fo+=t`	Autowrap (`h formatoption`)
`:bro[wse] ol[dfiles][!]`	Prompt which file to choose
`:earlier 12h`	Change file to how it was 12h ago
`:%! column -t`	align columns
`:syntax sync fromstart`	Reload syntax
`set cul!`	if scrooling slow for a long line
`set lazyredraw`	can be usefull too
`h ttyfast`

Ex tips 3/2

:v/./,/./-j Compress multiple blank lines into on

Ex tips 4/2

Some usefull function * Function: sort(list), put, getline(int), setlone(int, list) join(list), split(string), len(list), get, getpid()

Command: :retab,

Sort line accroding to line length

:%s/.*/\=printf("%03d", len(submatch(0)) . "|" . submatch(0)/ | sor n | %s/..../

Reverse line order

:%!tac
:%!tail -r
:g/^/m0

Man

runtime! ftplugin/man.vim
:Man 3 printf

Auto cd %

set autochdir  " auto chdir to current file
:tabdo lcd /dir/

Substitute without escaping the replcement

:%sno/search_string/replace_string/g
:s/</\='&lt;'/g

Delete everything except text

:%s/$^\|\(text$\@<=\).\{-}$$\|text$\@=//g text $^\|\(text$\@<=\) # means start of line, or some point preceded by “text” .\{-} # as few characters as possible $$\|text$\@= # without globbing characters, checking that we reached either end of line or occurrence of “text”.
Another way to do it:
- Create a function that count matches of a pattern in a string (see :help match() to help you design that)
- Use: :%s/.*/\=repeat('text', matchcount('text', submatch(0)))

Remove duplicate lines

:g/\v^([^ -=]+)\n\_.*%(^\1$)/d

Select and Search

`vo`, `vO`	Goto other side of visual selection
`gv`	Reselect las selection
`g*`, `g#`	Search word under cursor but without delimiter
`/.\{-}toto`	Non greedy, get first occurent of toto
`:&`	Repeat las substitution

:hi visu ctermgg=Cyan
:match visu /\%<13c/
:h /\%

Binary editing

222go Goto byte 222

Xxd

xxd -r (reverse, from hex to string) -p (output in ps := raw) -c 8 (bytes per line) -g 1 (bytes per column)

No newline at end of file

vim -b file or set binary
:set noeol or set nofixendofline

File encoding

set fileencoding=utf-8
set bomb
:w ++enc=utf-8 %
wchar encoding :e ++enc=utf-16
args *

Ctags

ctags -R -f ./.git/tags .
:tag function_name
C-} : see all tags
C-] : jump to tag
:tn | :tp : jump to next | previous tag
:ts : tag select : get a list

Search

Negative regex

TODO

Search examples

`/\%xYY`	YY hex ord(ascii)
`/\%uYYYY`	hex ord(unicode)
`[[=a=]] \| Character (a) equivalentce class (so get à) \| \|`/`\| Match letters in latin see`:echo &isident`\| \|`s/%V`\| Substitute within selection \| \|`/%<13c`	Before 13 virtual column

French accents /^[a-zàâçéèêëîïôûùüÿñæœ .-]*$/i

Vimscript

Get|Set (ou|in)tput from ex commands

:!: Get last output

redir @a
echo toto
redir END

let @a=getcwd()
:@": Execute what is yanked

"Examples: 
":call Exec('buffers')
"This will include the output of :buffers into the current buffer.
"Also try: ":call Exec('ls')
":call Exec('autocmd')
funct! Exec(command)
    redir =>output
    silent exec a:command
    redir END
    let @o = output
    execute "put o"
endfunct!

Inspect, Debug

TODO ### Inspect syntax highlight (link)

map K :echo "hi<" . synIDattr(synID(line("."),col("."),1),"name") . '> trans<' . synIDattr(synID(line("."),col("."),0),"name") . "> lo<" . synIDattr(synIDtrans(synID(line("."),col("."),1)),"name") . ">"<CR>

Display environment

To find the script file defining a map : :verbose map <c-z>. But map can ber replaced by:

abbreviate, autocmd, command, function, let, set all.
jumps, marks, args, changes
digraphs, highlight, reg, scriptnames, spellinfo, `syntax
Find where root runtime is
- :echo $VIMRUNTIME -> /usr/share/vim/vim74
Source autoload file
- :call example#BadFunction()

Get filetype of a buffer

* `:let bufFiletype = getbufvar(bufNr, '&filetype')`

Show highlight syntax type

:echo map(synstack(line('.'), col('.')), 'synIDattr(v:val, "name")')

Get filetype of a buffer

:let bufFiletype = getbufvar(bufNr, '&filetype')

Vimrc tips

:au FileTypepyrhon setlocal formatprg=autopep8\ -
xnoremap p pgvy : Copy without yanking selection in visual

Vimrc: GVim Remove useless bars

:set guioptions-=m " remove menu bar
:set guioptions-=T " remove toobar
:set guioptions-=r " remove right hand scrool bar 
:set guioptions-=L " remove lefthand scrooll bar

Ex one char

Ex 1 char (1/3)

`ab`	abbrev
`a`	append
`ar`	args
`c`	change
`co`	copy
`t`	Copy line to
`d`	delete
`e`	edit
`f`	file
`g`	global
`i`	insert
`j`	join
`l`	list
`maa`	map
`ma`	mark

Ex 1 char (2/3)

`m`	move
`n`	next
`nu`	number
`o`	open
`pre`	preserve
`p`	print
`pu`	put
`q`	quit
`re`	read
`rec`	recover
`rew`	rewind
`se`	set
`sh`	shell
`so`	source
`st`	stop

Ex 1 char (3/3)

`s`	substitute
`una`	unabbrev
`u`	undo
`unm`	unmap
`ve`	version
`vi`	visual
`w`	write
`x`	xit
`ya`	yank
`z`	window
`!`	escape
`CR`	print next
`&`	resubst
`>`	rshift
`^D`	scroll

Commands

Edit

Move

Move cursor

Ex tips 1/2

Ex tips 2/2

Ex tips 3/2

Ex tips 4/2

Sort line accroding to line length

Reverse line order

Man

Auto cd %

Substitute without escaping the replcement

Delete everything except text

Remove duplicate lines

Select and Search

Binary editing

Xxd

No newline at end of file

File encoding

Ctags

Search

Negative regex

Search examples

Vimscript

Get|Set (ou|in)tput from ex commands

Inspect, Debug

Display environment

Get filetype of a buffer

Show highlight syntax type

Get filetype of a buffer

Vimrc tips

Vimrc: GVim Remove useless bars

Ex one char

Ex 1 char (1/3)

Ex 1 char (2/3)

Ex 1 char (3/3)

Command line

Pipe

Remote

C-s