Changing Vim’s Title

Vim’s statusline is often used to display the name of the currently edited file. Another way to do this is by setting a titlestring:

" enable setting title
set title
" configure title to look like: Vim /path/to/file
set titlestring=VIM:\ %-25.55F\ %a%r%m titlelen=70

FileType-Specific Settings

Vim can run commands when reading or writing files, and this is known as an autocommand. Automatic commands can be combined with FileType and set to apply settings that only apply to a certain type of file. This takes the form au FileType type set commands. For example, to ensure…

Vim 101: Filtering for Fun and Profit

Vim supports filter commands, where a filter is a program that accepts and changes text using standard IO. I’m going to give some Unix-based examples, so the actual binaries I refer to may not be available in Windows, but the principles are the same.

Vim 101: Tabs

When Vim 7.0 was released, a tabbed interface was introduced. It works in both the text mode and GUI versions of Vim, but it doesn’t take up any extra interface space if it isn’t used.

Tabs are actually known as a “tab page”. The help file for tab pages can be accessed with…