Vim Tips Wiki:Todo/catlist1

a list of tips that are reviewed and need categorization

A

• Alternate delimiters for the replace command
• Auto execute yuicompressor
• Auto-save current buffer periodically
• Automatic scrolling of text
• Automatically refresh display of html on saving file
• Automatically wrap left and right

B

• Backing up and commenting vimrc

C

• Category:Building Vim
• Category:Integration
• Category:LanguageSpecific
• Category:Lists of scripts
• Category:Options
• Category:Plugin
• Category:Usage
• Change filetype based on directory path
• Change statusline color to show insert or normal mode
• Combining move and scroll
• Commenting with opfunc
• Create underlines, overlines, and strikethroughs using combining characters
• Cut/copy and paste using visual selection
• Cycle through buffers including hidden buffers

D

• Deleting a buffer without closing the window
• Dictionary completions
• Disable beeping

E

• Easier buffer switching
• Edit gpg encrypted files
• Editing a hard link to a file
• Editing crontab
• Encryption
• Environment variables
• Execute accidentally inserted commands

F

• Fast window resizing with plus/minus keys
• Filter buffer on a search result
• Finding phone numbers
• Fix syntax highlighting
• Fold away empty lines
• Format only long lines

G

• Generate all Unicode characters
• Get the correct indent for new lines despite blank lines
• Get the name of the current file
• Group matching lines

H

• Have Vim check automatically if the file has changed externally
• Hex dump
• Highlight current word to find cursor
• How to make and submit a patch
• How to sort using visual blocks
• How to toggle between all vertical and all horizontal window layout

I

• Indent C blocks where braces are opened and closed on a single line
• Indent with tabs, align with spaces
• Insert a single character
• Insert line numbers
• Installing several releases in parallel, even with matchit

J

• Jump to a function from where it is called
• Jump to a line number
• Jump to a random line
• Jumping to previously visited locations

K

• Keep your cursor centered vertically on the screen

L

• Launch remote batch jobs and view results in Vim
• List loaded scripts
• Loading scripts in vimrc safely

M

• Make an HTML anchor and href tag
• Make buffer modifiable state match file readonly state
• Making a list of numbers
• Map Ctrl-S to save current or new files
• Map caps lock to escape in Windows
• Map extra keys on non US keyboards
• Moving through camel case words

N

• Naviguer dans l'aide avec un clavier AZERTY

O

• Open PDF files
• Open a window with the man page for the word under the cursor
• Open file in already running vim from elsewhere
• Open the last edited file

P

• Pasting registers
• Perl compatible regular expressions
• Preview current HTML file
• Print to a Postscript file
• Project specific settings

Q

• Quick insert character at end-of-line
• Quickfix and doxygen
• Quickly change word or line
• Quickly switch between pager-like and editor-like scroll

R

• Recovering files
• Recreate tempfile directory
• Remembering previous deletes/yanks
• Remove diacritical signs from characters
• Repeat last colon command
• Repeating an ex command on multiple blocks
• Restore missing gvim menu bar under GNOME
• Restore screen size and position
• Restore the cursor position after undoing text change made by a script
• Reversing order of blocks of text

S

• Save each line in separate numbered files
• Saving a file
• Scrolling synchronously
• Selecting changes in diff mode
• Selecting your pasted text
• Show the length of the current word
• Smart paste
• Smarter pasting
• Some tips on saving the document
• Su-write
• Substitute characters and lines easily
• Subversion developer cindent options
• Sum numbers
• Super retab
• Synchronize configuration to many computers

T

• Time your Vim commands
• Toggle auto-indenting for code paste
• Tracking clipboard changes

U

• Unconditional linewise or characterwise paste
• Understanding VIMRUNTIME
• Uniq - Removing duplicate lines
• Update the diff view automatically
• Use Ctrl-O instead of Esc in insert mode mappings
• Use filter commands to process text
• Using GUI color settings in a terminal
• Using an expression in substitute command
• Using elinks with netrw
• Using g instead of substitute
• Using selected text in a command
• Using the Windows clipboard in Cygwin Vim
• Using vim as a syntax-highlighting pager

V

• View NFO-files correctly
• View man pages in Vim
• View text file in two columns
• Vim FAQ and other documentation
• Vim buffer FAQ
• Vim can interact with xdvi
• VimLock mode to enter numbers

W

• WYSIWYG graphics editing
• Word count