Vim

A powerful Text Editor

Getting Started

• Slides What is Vim?
• Vim Directory Structure
• Vim Commands
• Vim Plugins

Related

• THREAD Vim Mnemonics
• Day 26 - Switch to Linux, Learn Vim
• Vim Custom Markdown Syntax
• Vim and large files

Vim Everywhere

• Vim in Obsidian with Obsidian Vimrc
• Vim in IntelliJ with ideavimrc
• Vim in Firefox with Tridactyl
• Vim in Chrome with Vimium

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Quick shell commands

Run the command under the cursor with !! then sh. The command output will replace the command.

Troubleshooting

Write to log file with vim -V20vimlog README.md

Concealing Characters

see concealcursor and conceallevel to hide characters.

From Vim Custom Markdown Syntax

Counting Words

Count selected text with '<,'>write !wc -w -.

• Visually select a block of text and press :. This will enter Command Mode.
• Now complete the command like this '<,'>write !wc -w -
• write ! will write the selection to an external program
• the command wc -w - will tell word-count to count text from stdin wordwise

Spellchecking

# download spell file
cd /usr/share/nvim/runtime/spell
sudo wget http://ftp.vim.org/vim/runtime/spell/de.utf-8.spl

Then you can :set spell! to toggle spelling in Vim on and off.

Autocommands

" Remove trailing whitespace on save
autocmd autofixes BufWritePre * %s/\s\+$//e
" specify text width for markdown files
autocmd autofixes BufEnter *.md set textwidth=80