{"id":14979,"date":"2011-05-28T10:08:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T08:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=14979"},"modified":"2011-05-28T10:08:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T08:08:35","slug":"vim-tips-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/28\/vim-tips-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Vim tips of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m using Vim text editor<\/a> for more than decade now. \u00a0And I still can’t say I really know Vim. \u00a0I’m used to it and my fingers remember the commands. \u00a0And for those commands that I don’t remember, I’ve found some way of working around and got used to it too. \u00a0Today I came across not one, but two tips that I’m adding to my arsenal of Vim tricks.<\/p>\n

Re-selecting visual block<\/h3>\n

Usually I only need to select the block once. \u00a0I then process it and never get back to it. \u00a0But sometimes, I need to select the same section of the text a few moments later. \u00a0Until today I was simply switching to visual selection and marking the block again. \u00a0Not too much of a problem, but it would be nice to have a shortcut for re-selecting the previous selection. \u00a0Of course, there is such a shortcut in Vim. \u00a0I just didn’t know it. \u00a0Simply type ‘gv<\/strong>‘ (without quotes) while in normal mode and your last visual selection will be selected again.<\/p>\n

Increasing line limit on cross-file copying<\/h3>\n

There is no limit to number of lines copied between files, if all files are being edited in the same instance of Vim. \u00a0However if you copy a large selection from one file, then quit Vim, then open another file, and paste, you’ll probably see that only the first 50 lines or so were copied and the rest was lost. \u00a0Again this is not such a frequent scenario for me, and when it was happening I was simply opening both files in the same instance of Vim and copy all that I needed. \u00a0It turns out, I don’t really have to do that.<\/p>\n

Vim uses ~\/.viminfo<\/em> file (default location) to remember things like command history, file marks, and registers between Vim instances. \u00a0There is a way to configure what and how much of what is going into this file. \u00a0If you are annoyed by any limits, you can easily raise them or totally remove them. \u00a0Have a look at “:help ‘viminfo’<\/em>” manual page to see what is possible. \u00a0 Adding “set viminfo=’100,<1000,s100<\/strong>” to ~\/.vimrc<\/em> file solved my problem.<\/p>\n

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P.S.: my messy Vim configuration files are available from GitHub<\/a>, in case you wanted to take a pick at what else I have there.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

I’m using Vim text editor for more than decade now. \u00a0And I still can’t say I really know Vim. \u00a0I’m used to it and my fingers remember the commands. \u00a0And for those commands that I don’t remember, I’ve found some way of working around and got used to it too. \u00a0Today I came across not … Continue reading Vim tips of the day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,62],"tags":[74,3094],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-14979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-technology","tag-tips","tag-vim"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t