Is there a way to get a list of all installed color schemes in Vim? That would make very easy to select one without looking at the .vim directory. 1Best Answer 11 Type :colorscheme then Space followed by TAB. or as Peter said, :colorscheme then Space followed by CTRLd The short version of the command … Read more
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Is there a command in Vim that changes the case of the selected text? 3 s 3
How do I make Caps Lock work like Esc in Mac OS X? 14 s 14
vim shows on every line ending ^M How I do to replace this with a ‘normal’ linebreak? 37 s 37
I can do :%s/<search_string>/<replace_string>/g for replacing a string across a file, or :s/<search_string>/<replace_string>/ to replace in current line. How can I select and replace words from selective lines in vim? Example: replace text from lines 6-10, 14-18 but not from 11-13. 1Best Answer 11 Replace All: :%s/foo/bar/g Find each occurrence of ‘foo’ (in all lines), … Read more
Using Vim I often want to replace a block of code with a block that I just yanked. But when I delete the block of code that is to be replaced, that block itself goes into the register which erases the block I just yanked. So I’ve got in the habit of yanking, then inserting, … Read more
I open several files in Vim by, for example, running vim a/*.php which opens 23 files. I then make my edit and run the following twice :q which closes all my buffers. How can you close only one buffer in Vim? 10 s 10
I have a big HTML file that has lots of markup that looks like this: <p class=”MsoNormal” style=”margin: 0in 0in 0pt;”> <span style=”font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;”>stuff here</span> </p> I’m trying to do a Vim search-and-replace to get rid of all class=”” and style=”” but I’m having trouble making the match ungreedy. My first … Read more
I have been using Vim, and I would really like to save my settings. The problem I am having is that I cannot find my .vimrc file, and it is not in the standard /home/user/.vimrc location. How might I find this file? 19 s 19 You need to create it. In most installations I’ve used … Read more