My personal .vim directory

git clone https://github.com/Tojaj/dotvim.git ~/.vim
ln -s ~/.vim/vimrc ~/.vimrc

Launch vim, run :BundleInstall (or vim +BundleInstall +qall for CLI lovers)

• Conque - Allows you to run interactive programs, such as bash
• CtrlP.vim - Full path fuzzy file, buffer, mru, tag, ... finder for Vim
• Molokai - A port of the monokai scheme for TextMate
• NERD Commenter - A plugin that allows for easy commenting of code for many filetypes
• NERD tree - A tree explorer plugin for navigating the filesystem
• Python-mode - Vim python-mode. PyLint, Rope, Pydoc, breakpoints from box
• Solarized - Precision colorscheme for the vim text editor
• Tagbar - Display tags of the current file ordered by scope
• Vundle - Vundle, the plug-in manager for Vim
• Xoria256.vim - Soft pastel gamma on dark background

• , - Leader key
• F2 - Toggle paste insert mode
• F5 - Refresh tags file (ctags -R)
• F6 - Run Bash via ConqueTerm
• F7 - Toggle NerdTree
• F8 - Toggle TagBar
• F10 - make clean && make
• Ctrl+P - Invoke CtrlP

Press Ctrl+P or ,+t to invoke CtrlP in file find mode or ,+b in find buffer mode.

• F5 - Purge the cache for the current directory to get new files, remove deleted files and apply new ignore options.
• Ctrl+f or Ctrl+b - Cycle between modes.
• Ctrl+d - Switch to filename search instead of full path.
• Ctrl+r - Regexp mode.
• Ctrl+y - Create a new file and its parent directories.
• Ctrl+z - Mark/Unmark multiple files and Ctrl+o to open them.
• Ctrl+^ - Switch to last used buffer (from normal mode).

• ,+cu - Uncomments the selected line(s).
• ,+cc - Comment out the current line or text selected in visual mode.
• ,+cs - Comments out the selected lines sexily.
• ,+c - Toggles the comment state of the selected line(s). If the topmost selected line is commented, all selected lines are uncommented and vice versa.
• ,+ci - Toggles the comment state of the selected line(s) individually.

• F7 - Invoke NERD Tree.
• r - Refresh content of selected directory.

Add Bundle '...' record into the vimrc file

https://github.com/gmarik/vundle

• "+y - Copy selected lines into the system clipboard.

You will need vim with with X11 support. Specifically vim compiled with xterm_clipboard option on. Check it: vim --version | grep +xterm_clipboard Next solution could be use gvim (gvim -v for terminal mode) instead of vim.

Tip: Add alias to ~/.bashrc: alias vim='gvim -v'.

• :edit [filename] - Open the filename.
• :bd - Close current buffer.
• :sp - Split window horizontally.
• :vsp - Split window verticaly.
• :qa - Quit (close all buffers/splits).
• :tag [tagname] - Search for the tagname in ctags file.

Recording

• . - Repeats last text change command.
• q<letter> - Start recording.
• q - Stop recording.
• [count]@<letter> - Replay record [count] times.

Running external commands

• :!<command> - Run shell command and show its output (normal mode).
• :!<command> % - Run shell command on the current file (normal mode).
• :!wc % - Count lines in the current document (normal mode).
• !<command> - Run shell command on marked lines (visual mode).
• !lsort - Sorts marked lines (visual mode).
• !!<command> - Run shell command, places output in file starting at current line (normal mode).
• !!uname - Get system information (normal mode).

• Ctrl+n - Completition.
• q+: - Commands history (normal mode).

• Ctrl+] - Jump to the tag under cursor.
• g+<left click on the tag> - Jump to the tag on which was clicked
• Ctrl+o - Go to the previous cursor position.
• Ctrl+i - Go to the newer one cursor position.

Navigation between splits

• Ctrl+w [hjkl] - Move to the split on the (h-left, j-down, k-up, l-right)
• Ctrl+w Ctrl+w - Move to the last active split.

Moving the screen

• Ctrl+e - Moves screen up one line.
• Ctrl+y - Moves screen down one line.

Goto

• Shift+* - Go to the next one occurrence of the word under the cursor.
• Shift+# - Go to the previous one occurrence of the word under the cursor.
• % - Go to the matching (opening or closing) parenthesis, square bracket or a curly brace.

Note: Prepend "no" to the option to disable it (e.g. set nonu).

• set et - Expand tab (long version: extandtab)
• set nu - Show line numbers.
• set ic - Ignore case when searching.
• set autoindent - Enable auto indenting.
• set paste - Enable paste mode (prevent destroying of indentation)

Useful characters and patterns:

• ^ - Matches beginning of line.
• $ - Matches eng of line.
• . - Matches any single character.
• \< - Matches beginning of word.
• \> - Matches and of word.
• \ - Escapes the meaning of the next character.
• \\ - Escapes the \ character.
• [str] - Matches any single character in str.
• [^str] - Matches any character not in str.
• [a-n] - Matches any character between a and n.
• * - Matches zero or more occurrences of previous atom in expression.
• \? - Matches zero or one occurences of the preceding atom.
• \+ - Matches one or more occurences of the preceding atom.
• \{n,m} - Matches n to m of the preceding atom.
• \{n} - Matches n of the preceding atom.
• \{n,} - Matches at least n of the preceding atom.
• \{,m} - Matches 0 to m of the preceding atom.
• \{} - Matches 0 or more of the preceding atom.
• \@= - Matches the preceding atom with zero width. (e.g. Foo\(Bar\)\@= matches Foo in FooBar).
• \@! - Matches with zero width if the preceding atom does NOT match (e.g. /Foo\(\Bar\)\@! matches Foo not followed by Bar).
• \{-} - Non-greedy matching (e.g. .\{-} instead of .*).
• \n - Matches a newline character.
• \_s - Matches a whitespace (space or tab) or newline character.
• \_. - Matches any character including a newline.
• \_^ - Matches the beginning of a line (zero width).
• \_$ - Matches the end of a line (zero width).

• %s/foo/bar/ - Replace "foo" with "bar" in whole file
• .,$s/foo/bar/ - Replace "foo" with "bar" from current position to end of file.
• %s/foo/bar/c - Replace "foo" with "bar" in whole file with confirmation for each replace
• %s/foo/bar/g - Replace "foo" with "bar"in while file and even multiple occurences on a single line.

:g (:global) executes a command on all lines that match a regex.

g/regex/command_to_execute

• :g/Debug/d - Delete all lines that contain word Debug
• :g/Debug/d_ - Faster delete all lines that contain word Debug (because by default each deleted line is stored to a register and _ stands for "blackhole" register)
• :g/^Debug/d - Delete all lines that start with word Debug
• :g!/error/d - Delete all lines that don't contain word error
• :v/error/d - Delete all lines that don't contain word error
• :g/Warning/s/locahost/test.com/g - Replace localhost string with test.com on all lines that start with Warning
• :g/Info/m$ - Move all lines matching a pttern to end of file
• :g/Info/t$ - Copy all lines matching a pttern to end of file
• :g/^Debug/s/$/some_text - Add some_text string to end of each line that starts with Debug

Textobject selection is a series of commands that can only be used while in Visual mode or after an operator (d - delete, c - change).

Basic:

Note: [count] is a optional number argument.

• [count]aw - Select [count] words. (White space included, but not counted).
• [count]iw - Select [count] inner words. (White space is counted too).
• [count]aW - Select [count] WORDS.
• [count]iW - Select [count] inner WORDS.
• [count]as - Select [count] sentences.
• [count]is - Select [count] sentences.
• [count]ap - Select [count] paragraphs.
• [count]ip - Select [count] paragraphs.
• [count]a[ - Select [count] '[' ']' blocks (chars like "(){}<>" could be used too).

Examples useful while programming:

From normal mode:

• dd - Delete one line.
• 3dd - Delete three lines.
• diw - Delete a word.
• di" - Delete inner "" block - Delete a whole string.
• di( or dib - Delete inner () block - Delete a function arguments.
• ci" - Change inner "" block - Change a whole string.
• ci( or cib - Change inner () block - Change a function arguments.
• di{ or diB - Delete inner {} block.