Vim Recipes ‣ Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Conventions
• Contributing
• License
• Credits

• Basics

  • Choosing the Right Mode
  • Basic Navigation
  • Opening Files
  • Saving a File
  • Quitting Vim
  • Deleting Text
  • Visually Selecting Text
  • Copying, Cutting, and Pasting
  • Configuring Vim
  • Printing
  • Getting Help

• Editing

  • Indenting Lines
  • Selecting Text with Motions
  • Repeating Commands
  • Changing the Case of Text
  • Sorting Text
  • Executing External Commands
  • Managing Sessions
  • Formatting with an External Program
  • Working with Different File Formats

• Typing

  • Spell Checking
  • Using Templates
  • Undoing Mistakes
  • Auto-Completing Text
  • Abbreviating Common Strings
  • Inserting Accented or "Foreign" Characters
  • Opening the File Name Beneath the Cursor
  • Inserting the Date
  • Inserting Snippets

• Navigation

  • Navigating Text Files
  • Navigating Source Code
  • Navigating the Viewport
  • Navigating Buffers
  • Navigating Tabs
  • Manually Creating Folds
  • Navigating Folds
  • Splitting the Screen
  • Navigating Marks
  • Navigating Tags
  • Bookmarking Lines with Visible Markers (Signs)

• GUI (GVim)

  • Changing the Font
  • Maximising Screen Space
  • Creating Menus and Toolbar Buttons

• Searching

  • Searching for any Word
  • Searching Over Multiple Files
  • Searching and Replacing
  • Searching for the Word Beneath the Cursor
  • Creating Regular Expressions
  • Looking up Documentation for the Keyword Under the Cursor

• Display

  • Working with Long Lines
  • Displaying Line Numbers
  • Working with Remote Files
  • Changing the Status Line
  • Redefining Highlight Groups
  • Modifying the Cursor
  • Changing the Window Title

• Extending

  • Creating Keyboard Shortcuts with Key Mappings
  • Changing the Colour Scheme
  • Creating Command-Line Commands
  • Extending Vim with Scripts and Plugins
  • Integrating Vim with Git

• Other Uses of Vim

  • Browsing Directories
  • Using Vim as a File Manager
  • Viewing Differences Between Files
  • Outlining a Document