Just another usefull vim tip, to customize your own skin :
To just view the setting, just use it with no argument :
also shortened as
This will display the current settings.
To display the current setting of the Comment class, just enter:
For example, if your comment lines appear in a Dark blue and you expect a lightblue instead (0,255,255) or #00ffff try :
You could then set your own settings in your $HOME/.vimrc ... activate :set syntax=on if necessary)
The different classes (Comment, Title, Constant, Special, ...) and much more, are documented at : Vim documentation: syntax
Just play with the :highlight command , get use to it and enjoy !
cW:change the Whole line from the current cursor position (same as C )
not quite: The difference is what "word" means. "cw" (or any other command using "w" as a range assignment) will treat special characters as the end of the word, whereas "cW" will treat only whitespace (or line ends) as word delimiters. In the following text:
if the cursor is under the "f" of "foo", then "cw" will replace "foo" with what you type afterwards, whereas "cW" will replace "foo=bar". To change the line from the cursor position to the line end use "C".
I found a decent guide of VI basic tricks. This guide does expect you to have a decent understanding of VI. It does not go over very much beginner related.
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I downloaded vim.7.2 and compiled the vim source .
Added the vim binary path to PATH (Because iam not the root of the box)
when i load the file using vim it throws me an error
Error detected while processing /home2/e3003091/.vimrc:
line 2:
E185: Cannot find color scheme darkblue
line... (0 Replies)
I have a file which containd a string "old" and I need to replace all old with "new" if and only if it is a string not part of a string like Gold or fold etc.
I tried with sed like below
echo "old gold old" | sed 's/old/new/g'
It doesn't give the desired output, It give "old Gnew new".... (3 Replies)
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2) say I did
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I realise my typo. is there an easy way to redo the command replacing A with S?
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