> -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ivan Vecerina > Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 8:17 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: HTML editing with vim: where to start ? > > Hi, > I'm pretty new to Vim, but went through several tutorials, > quick references, a number of help pages, and briefly through > the Vim book. I also hear announcements about Vim7's enhanced > built-in support for HTML editing. I even tried to play a bit > with the auto-completion (got some 'completion lists' popping > up after opening a PHP/HTML file...). > > But where do I go from here to learn efficient HTML editing > with Vim, having expert around to receive guidance from? > Especially when it comes to Vim7, all tutorials I have seen > seem terribly outdated. > For example, here are a few simple things I need to do all the time: > - Insert tags around a selected block of text (e.g. <b>...</b>) > - get vim to automatically close/complete the innermost > previously opened tag. > - delete both the start and end tag with a minimum number of > keystrokes. > I could find half a dozen of ways to do the above, and even > more posts about ways to semi-automate this. > But those most common operations ought to be well supported > in Vim7 I imagine, is there a good default way to accomplish them? > Other things I don't know how to find is: how do I make sure > that VIM finds the CSS associated with the document I am > editing (to help with auto-completion)? > What are other tricks I should know for HTML-style document > editing, and where can I learn them? > Are there any targeted tutorials I should look into? > Is there an obvious resource I should use?
Along with the other suggestions you might want to look at the tip I posted: Tip #346: Wrap text in HTML/XML tags after prompting for the tag name http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=346 Basically, after pressing ,,, it will prompt you for what to wrap the text in. I use this all the time to wrap text afterwards. HTH, Dave
