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Automate your perltidy from Vim Permalink

Vim, Perl Added less than a year ago

I have set up this mapping: 

nnoremap <silent> <F9> :%! perltidy -q -pbp<CR>

... now I just hit F9 and I'm set.




Making Vim Save on Ctrl-S Permalink

Vim Added less than a year ago and last edited less than a year ago

Add this to your ~/.vimrc file: 

if has("gui_running")
    imap <c-s> <Esc><c-s>
    map <silent> <C-S> :if expand("%") == ""<CR>:browse confirm w<CR>:else<CR>:confirm w<CR>:endif<CR>
endif



Moving Vim Tabs Permalink

Vim Added less than a year ago

It's easy - on the current tab that you want in a different spot, just execute: 

:tabm num

... where num is the zero-indexed position you want to move it to.




Vim Sessions Permalink

Vim Added less than a year ago

When using vim an interesting idea is to save a session file for each ticket you are working on.

Say you are working on TICKET-881, and you have the 8 files relevant to this ticket open in tabs, you firstly save your session: 

:mksession TICKET-881.vim

Then when you need to go back to work on that ticket at a later stage, start up with that session like so: 

$ gvim -S TICKET-881.vim

... and all your tabs, environment, cursor positions etc will be like you left them. This can help to reduce the pain of context-switching between tickets and trying to remember exactly what files you were editing at the time.




Using perltidy from vim Permalink

Vim, Perl Added less than a year ago

Make sure your .perltidyrc is setup, then just: 

:%!perltidy -q

... and voilà - tidy source.




Vim - Refresh Bad Colours Permalink

Vim Added less than a year ago

Sometimes the syntax highlighter in vim gets confused with complicated syntax - and colours might go wrong for a string or comment etc.

You can force vim to refresh the syntax highlighting by pressing Ctrl-l (that's the letter L) - just like how you quickly clear the screen in terminals.




Manually Setting Vim Syntax Permalink

Perl, Vim Added less than a year ago

If you are editing a Perl script but the script name doesn't have a .pl extension and no hashbang line, your syntax highlighting will not work.

To manually set the syntax highlighting do this: 

:set syntax=perl



Merging Changes using VimDiff Permalink

Vim Added less than a year ago

Core Dump has a nice entry on this. 

$ vimdiff file1 file2

Keyboard Shortcuts: do - Get changes from other window into the current window. dp - Put the changes from current window into the other window. ]c - Jump to the next change. [c - Jump to the previous change.




Vim - What Changes Did I Make? Permalink

Vim Added less than a year ago

If you open a file in Vim, make some changes, then want to check those changes compared to when you opened it (do a diff before saving), then you have a few options: 

:w !diff % -

... is an easy one. Others include:

diffchanges.vim

DiffWithSaved function




Perly Vim Permalink

Vim, Perl Added less than a year ago and last edited less than a year ago

Vim regexes aren't great, especially if you are used to Perl ones. When you are looking for a Perly way to substitute some text in Vim, try the simple: 

:perldo s/something \d+/another/

This is a good way to make sure your ranges, special chars, character classes and flags etc work the way you have come to expect from using Perl.

By default this operation works on the entire file, but you can prefix the command with line ranges like you would with a normal Vim substitution.




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