On 02/06/10 18:14, rewar wrote:
[...]
further, how do you become better at using such an editor as vim? I
only know some basic stuff for c programming and when i need to do
something like search/replace, i just google it. is there a good guide
to start with? I mean that statement u wrote just then was quite
complex for me to even understand lol
[...]
With Vim, don't google: use the help instead. It's the only program I
know whose help contains *everything*.
The :help command accepts one optional argument: the topic about which
you need help. That argument can be auto-completed: type part of it,
then <Tab> instead of <Enter>, and Vim will complete the first (or only)
matching tag. (By "first", I mean "what Vim thinks is the best".)
If you have 'wildmenu' set (which is not the default), hitting <Tab> to
complete an ex-command (not just :help) will give you a menu of possible
completions on the status line. Select with <Left> and <Right>, and, for
filenames and menus (but not helptags) navigate the tree with <Down> and
<Up>; then accept with <Enter> or abort with <Esc>.
There are various lists of pointers to help subjects: the first helpfile
(which you get by hitting F1) has a list of all the others; ":help
index" lists the commands for Insert, Normal, Visual and Command-line
modes; ":help function-list" has a list of functions by subject (with a
hotlink to the alphabetical list), etc.
But when all hope of finding your needle in that huge haystack seems
lost, there is one extremely useful command: :helpgrep. It accepts one
Vim-style regular expression (without the bounding slashes) and will
search the whole contents on the help for anything matching that
pattern. Results are given as a quickfix list (see :help quickfix.txt),
navigate them with :cnext, :cprev, :cnfile, :cpfile, :cfirst, :clast
(which may of course be assigned to single keys, e.g.
:map <F2> :cnext<CR>
:map <S-F2> ;cprev<CR>
or else, :copen will open (and, afterwards, :cclose will close) a window
showing one line per match with the filename, linenumber, and the
relevant line of text.
Best regards,
Tony.
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