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Alex R. Young in usevim

Dec 4, 2014

Intercepting Writes to Files with BufWritePost

Sometimes you find yourself frequently running the same command whenever you save a file. Maybe it’s restarting a local web server, running a build script, or checking your code with a linter. This can be scripted quite easily with BufWritePost…

Alex R. Young in usevim

Nov 14, 2014

Stop the Tab Madness

If you’ve switched to Vim from a GUI tab-based editor like TextMate or Sublime Text, then you’ve probably learned how to use Vim’s tabs. However, Vim’s version of tabs are different, and to really take advantage of them involves properly learning buffers and split windows.

Alex R. Young in usevim

Jun 18, 2014

Script Roundup: Buffersaurus, CMake

Buffersaurus

Buffersaurus (GitHub: jeetsukumaran / vim-buffersaurus) by Jeet Sukumaran is a plugin for searching (and replacing) across all open buffers. Typing :Bsgrep searches all buffers for a regular expression, and you can use…

Alex R. Young in usevim

Jan 8, 2014

Script Roundup: Vim-CtrlSpace, railsdock.vim

Vim-CtrlSpace

Vim-CtrlSpace (GitHub: szw / vim-ctrlspace, License: MIT) by Szymon Wrozynski helps you organise buffers by listing them per-tab. Workspaces can be saved to disk, and it supports fuzzy search through…

Alex R. Young in usevim

Sep 11, 2013

Script Roundup: Bbye, Enhanced JavaScript Syntax

Bbye

Bbye (GitHub: moll / vim-bbye, License: Affero GPL) by Andri Möll allows buffers to be closed without changing Vim’s window layout:

Vim by default closes all windows that have the buffer…

Alex R. Young in usevim

Jul 23, 2013

Script Roundup: MiniBufExpl, vim-github-comment

MiniBufExpl Updates

Techlive Zheng sent in an update for MiniBufExpl (GitHub: techlivezheng / vim-plugin-minibufexpl. This is an old plugin that has passed between several authors, but continues to be popular…

Alex R. Young in usevim

Nov 18, 2012

Vim 101: Set Hidden

If you’re looking for a good way to learn new Vim skills, then you can discover a lot from someone’s ~/.vimrc. Searching for dotfile repositories on sites like GitHub is a good start. On one such dotfile diving session I noticed how often set hidden crops up. The documentation for set hidden…

Alex R. Young in usevim

Oct 31, 2012

Script Roundup: butane.vim, longline.vim

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butane.vim

butane.vim (GitHub: Soares / butane.vim, License: Vim) by Nate Soares, originally based on Vim Tip #165, adds a…

Alex R. Young in usevim

Oct 9, 2012

Script Roundup: GrepTasks, easybuffer.vim

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GrepTasks

GrepTasks (GitHub: vim-scripts / GrepTasks) by Ingo Karkat helps search for FIXME, TODO, and other markers. The…

Alex R. Young in usevim

Sep 23, 2012

Vim 101: QuickFix and Grep

QuickFix is designed to display compiler errors — a list of errors is displayed and can be selected to jump to a specific file and line. It’s also used for :vimgrep -- each item in the results list is displayed and can be used to navigate between files.