Table of Contents
First things
What is this book?
Some naming conventions
Where are the Vimscripts?
Why did you organize this book this way?
How to read this book?
Navigation
Basic Navigations
Toggle Between Files
Navigating Parentheses, Brackets, and Braces
Go to a Different Line
Same-Line Navigation
Screen Adjust
Scroll
Go to the Lastβ¦
Go to the Filename Under the Cursor
Go to the Place Where a Text Was Inserted and Enter the Insert Mode
Search
Basic Search
Starting Regex
Stop Searching After the Last Match
Show the Search Count
Moving the Cursor Below or Above the Match
Moving the Cursor to the End of the Match
Search for a Character Enclosed in a Collection
Search for a Keyword at the Start or at the End of the Line
Search for a Line Containing a Starting, Middle, and Ending Keyword
Greedy vs Non-Greedy Search Patterns
Searching for a Keyword Separated by End-of-Line
Search for Either Or
Avoid Typing Forward-Slashes
Marking the Start and End of a Match
Search for the Nth Occurrence in a Line
Search for Any Text Surrounded by a Particular Pattern
Repeat the Last Search
Force a Case-Sensitive Search
Optional Search
Search a Phrase in Multiple Files With Vimgrep
Adding Matches to an Existing Quickfix List
Alias for Digits and Words
More Predefined Characters
Quickly Search for the Word Under the Cursor
Finding a File
Search and Replace in Multiple Files
Command-Line Mode
Command Suggestion
Get the Word Under the Cursor
Faster Delete
Are There More Commands?
File
Buffers, Windows, Tabs
Two Different Write Commands With Similar Syntax
Save a File That Requires a Root Permission
Time Travel
Converting the Current File to an HTML
Open an URL Content
Save a Partial File
Show the Buffers List
Vim Tabs
Save the Current File in a Different Directory
Open the Man Page From Vim
Quitting Vim
Viewing Recent Files
Changing Directory
Executing a Command When Opening a File
Get the Current File Info
Count Words
Delete a File
More Concise Way to Save and Exit
Suspend Vim
Compiling
Persist Local Configuration
Saving a Session
History
Jumping Around Files Quickly
Trace Edited Texts
Search History
Command-Line History
Vim Histories
Insert Mode
Entering Insert Mode
Different Ways to Exit Insert Mode
Paste a Recently Yanked Text
Performing a Quick Calculation
Autocompletion
Executing a Normal Mode Command While in the Insert Mode
Larger Deletes
Scrolling While in the Insert Mode
Insert Special Characters
Layout
Indent and Un-indent Lines
Fix the Indentation of the Entire File
Redraw the Screen
Folding Lines
Cursor Visual Helper
Macros And Registers
Macro Basics
Register Basics
Closer Look At Vim Registers
Clear Up a Register
Output Content From Any Register
Edit an Existing Macro
Use the Blackhole Register to Prevent Register Pollution
See the Content From All Registers
Execute a Macro Programmatically
Quickly Append to an Existing Macro
Quickly Paste From the Numbered Register
Macro Factory
Recursive Macro
Multi-File Operations
Different Ways to Execute a Command In Multiple Files
Substitute In Multiple Files
Execute a Macro in Multiple Files
Limiting the Files to Operate On
Creating an Argument List
Adding to an Argument List
Numbers
Quickly Increment or Decrement a Number on a Line
Incrementing Number By More Than One
Sequentially Increment Multiple Numbers
Substitute and Increment Number
Quickly Generate Incrementing Numbers Anywhere
Get ASCII Value
Repeat
Repeat the Last Command-Line Command
Repeat the Last Change
Repeat the Last Substitute
Repeat the Last Executed Macro
Repeat the Last External Command
Sort
Sorting Lines
External Sort
Reverse Sort
Substitute
Basic Substitution
Case Insensitive Match
Asking For Confirmation Before Substituting
Group Match In Substitution
Use Very Magic to Avoid Escaping Special Characters
Representing the Entire Match
Using the Group Match to Remove Words
Reusing the Previous Search Pattern
Deleting In Substitution Quicker
Using an Expression in a Substitution
Removing Trailing Whitespaces
Add a New Line In Substitution
Repeat the Last Substitute Command
Capitalize the First Letter Of Each Word
Perform a Chain of Substitutes
Repeat the Last Substitute String
Repeat the Last Substitution With the Last Search Pattern and the Last Substitute String
Changing the Delimiter
Global Command
Global Command Basics
Inverse Match
Prepend or Append On Multiple Lines
Global Command Within a Range
Delete Blank and Empty Lines
Running Global Command Between Matching Patterns
Condense Multiple Empty Lines
Reuse the Global Command Search Pattern in the Substitute Command
The Default Command
Use Execute to Run Complex Expressions
Reverse All Lines
Surround All Digits With Double Quotes
Changing the Delimiter
Programmatic Global Command
Tags
What Are Tags?
Setting Up the Tag File
Tags Navigation
Selective Jump
Autocompletion
Automatic Tag Generation
Text Generation
Get a File Content
Get the Current Date
Generate Numbers
Generate IP Addresses
Generate Random Dice Throw
Generate Numbers Horizontally
Transform a Text Into a Numbered List Based On Line Numbers
Text Manipulation
How to Speak Vim
Changing Cases
Swap Two Characters
Replace Mode
Using a Command-Line Command As a Motion to an Operator
Force Motion
Persistent Undo
Undoing In Chunks
Join Lines
Using Terminal Commands
Terminal
Vi Mode
Opening Files
Diffing With Vim
Running Vim Without Plugins or Vimrc
Open Files in Vim as a Result of Another Command
Open Files in Read-Only Mode
Open Vim With Vertical and Horizontal Splits
Generate New Files Programmatically
Passing Text as STDIN to a Command
Using the Terminal From Vim
Check Available Vim Features
Visual Mode
Visual Mode Basics
Insert Text on Multiple Lines
Quickly Reselect the Previous Visual Highlight
Expanding Visual Highlight Bidirectionally
Switching to a Different Visual Mode While in a Visual Mode
Visually Highlight the Last Search Term
Replace Multiple Characters With Visual Selection
Vimrc
Quick Access to Vimrc
Line Numbers
More Helpful Search
Smarter Search Case
Programmatic Options
Create a Custom Command
Conditionally Run Vimrc Settings Based On Directory
Organize Vimrc With the Fold Syntax
Run a Specific Configuration Depending On File Type
Toggle a Boolean Option
Split Vimrc Into Multiple Files
Mapping a New Key
Installing Plugins With Packages
Installing Plugins With Plugin Managers
Trigger Action On Certain Event
Window
Splitting Windows Horizontally and Vertically
Resizing Windows
Close or Zoom the Current Window
Moving the Cursor to Another Windows
Open a New Window
Use Two Windows to Diff Files
