vim

Local

• Commands
• Copy a Block of Text
• How to Remove Empty Lines
• gvim, openning it in the same window
• Settings, at startup (.vimrc file)
• Substitute (Find & Replace)
• Text, a single color
• Variables

External

• Searchable documentation http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/
• VIM for dummies http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~ramesh/vim.html
• http://www.fprintf.net/vimCheatSheet.html
• Docs: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/dion/vimum.html
• Vim Cookbook

How to Remove Empty Lines

Openning gvim as if it were vim

If gvim is run as vim it will behave as vim (i.e. open in the same window)

To to this make a soft link to gvim named vim and then execute it to run gvim as vim

Commands

Settings, at startup (.vimrc file)

set background=dark

Variables

Copy a Block of Text

1. In command mode
2. Move cursor to first char to copy
3. type 'v'
4. Move cursor to last char to copy
5. type 'y' to yank (put data in copy buffer)
6. Move cursor to where you want to place text
7. type 'p' to paste

Text, a single color

Substitute

*10.2*  Substitution

The ":substitute" command enables you to perform string replacements on a
whole range of lines.  The general form of this command is as follows: >

        :[range]substitute/from/to/[flags]

This command changes the "from" string to the "to" string in the lines
specified with [range].  For example, you can change "Professor" to "Teacher"
in all lines with the following command: >

        :%substitute/Professor/Teacher/
<
        Note:
        The :substitute command is almost never spelled out completely.  Most
        of the time, people use the abbreviated version ":s".  From here on
        the abbreviation will be used.

The "%" before the command specifies the command works on all lines.  Without
a range, ":s" only works on the current line.  More about ranges in the next
section.

By default, the ":substitute" command changes only the first occurrence on
each line.  For example, the preceding command changes the line:

        Professor Smith criticized Professor Johnson today. ~

to:

        Teacher Smith criticized Professor Johnson today. ~

To change every occurrence on the line, you need to add the g (global) flag.
The command: >

        :%s/Professor/Teacher/g

results in (starting with the original line):

        Teacher Smith criticized Teacher Johnson today. ~

Other flags include p (print), which causes the ":substitute" command to print
out each line it changes.  The c (confirm) flag tells ":substitute" to ask you
for confirmation before it performs each substitution.  Enter the following: >

        :%s/Professor/Teacher/c

Vim finds the first occurrence of "Professor" and displays the text it is
about to change.  You get the following prompt: >

        replace with Teacher (y/n/a/q/l/^E/^Y)?

At this point, you must enter one of the following answers:

        y               Yes; make this change.
        n               No; skip this match.
        a               All; make this change and all remaining ones without
                        further confirmation.
        q               Quit; don't make any more changes.
        l               Last; make this change and then quit.
        CTRL-E          Scroll the text one line up.
        CTRL-Y          Scroll the text one line down.


The "from" part of the substitute command is actually a pattern.  The same
kind as used for the search command.  For example, this command only
substitutes "the" when it appears at the start of a line: >

        :s/^the/these/

If you are substituting with a "from" or "to" part that includes a slash, you
need to put a backslash before it.  A simpler way is to use another character
instead of the slash.  A plus, for example: >

        :s+one/two+one or two+