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- The Main Page highlights the current featured tip.
- Add comments on the current featured tip to the comments section on the current tip page.
Now THAT's a Good Tip!
While most of the tips on this wiki are very helpful, every now and then, you'll stumble on a tip that shines above all the rest. Such a tip is a tip that changes the way you do a basic task, a tip that you try immediately and then use all the time, a tip that makes Vim integrate SO much better with your setup, or a tip that you just wish somebody gave to you when you started using Vim. We here on the Vim Tips Wiki recognize this, and therefore will -- about once a month -- feature a new tip that we feel is among the best of the best. So keep an eye on this page for life-altering (or at least mildly interesting) tips to add to your repertoire.
Previously featured tips
This is an archive of the Featured tip section on the Main Page. We won't feature these tips again – however, they remain great tips!
January 2009
Sometimes it's useful to highlight several patterns in different colors. For example, you may be studying how three variables are used, and you would like to see each displayed with a different background color.
It's easy to highlight multiple words using our amazing highlighting script. You can press a key to highlight visually-selected text, or the current word, or you can enter a command to highlight any pattern. Searching for the next highlight is also easy.
You can have different sets of highlighting in different windows, or can copy highlighting from one window to another. If you really like your current highlight patterns, you can save them for use in the future.
2008
Featured tips from 2008 are archived here.