romainl

My Vim-related gists

Long-form

• How to use Tim Pope's Pathogen
• Idiomatic vimrc (superseded by idiomatic-vimrc)
• Clipboard sharing on Mac OS X is easy
• Apprentice — The Making Of
• Vim: pushing built-in features beyond their limits
• The right way to override any highlighting if you don't want to edit the colorscheme file directly

romainl

The right way to override any highlighting if you don't want to edit the colorscheme file directly

Generalities first

Suppose you have weird taste and you absolutely want:

• your visual selection to always have a green background and black foreground,
• your active statusline to always have a white background and red foreground,
• your very own deep blue background.

romainl

" Mac OS X (requires curl)
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command! -range=% SP <line1>,<line2>w !curl -F 'sprunge=<-' http://sprunge.us | tr -d '\n' | pbcopy
command! -range=% CL <line1>,<line2>w !curl -F 'clbin=<-' https://clbin.com | tr -d '\n' | pbcopy
command! -range=% VP <line1>,<line2>w !curl -F 'text=<-' http://vpaste.net | tr -d '\n' | pbcopy
command! -range=% PB <line1>,<line2>w !curl -F 'c=@-' https://ptpb.pw/?u=1 | tr -d '\n' | pbcopy
command! -range=% IX <line1>,<line2>w !curl -F 'f:1=<-' http://ix.io | tr -d '\n' | pbcopy
command! -range=% EN <line1>,<line2>w !curl -F 'file=@-;' https://envs.sh | tr -d '\n' | pbcopy
command! -range=% XO <line1>,<line2>w !curl -F 'file=@-' https://0x0.st | tr -d '\n' | pbcopy
command! -range=% TB <line1>,<line2>w !nc termbin.com 9999 | tr -d '\n' | pbcopy

romainl

Redirect the output of a Vim or external command into a scratch buffer

Usage (any shell)

Show full output of command :hi in scratch window:

:Redir hi

Show full output of command :!ls -al in scratch window:

max-mapper

egmontkob

Hyperlinks (a.k.a. HTML-like anchors) in terminal emulators

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Most of the terminal emulators auto-detect when a URL appears onscreen and allow to conveniently open them (e.g. via Ctrl+click or Cmd+click, or the right click menu).

It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages.

karenyyng

Table Of Content

Skip to the relevant sections if needed.

• 2-min tutorial to do it the quick-and-dirty-way
• Concepts for resolving Git conflicts
• Setting up different editors / tool for using git mergetool
  • Finding out what mergetool editors are supported
• mergetool simple code example for vimdiff
  • Resolving conflict from a Git pull
• Other great references and tutorials

unbracketed

Example: Moving up to a few commits to another branch

Branch A has commits (X,Y) that also need to be in Branch B. The cherry-pick operations should be done in the same chronological order that the commits appear in Branch A.

cherry-pick does support a range of commits, but if you have merge commits in that range, it gets really complicated

git checkout branch-B
git cherry-pick X
git cherry-pick Y

isaacs

# Hello, and welcome to makefile basics.
#
# You will learn why `make` is so great, and why, despite its "weird" syntax,
# it is actually a highly expressive, efficient, and powerful way to build
# programs.
#
# Once you're done here, go to
# http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
# to learn SOOOO much more.

vext01

Vim+Zathura+Synctex

• In a script called 'vimura':

#!/bin/sh
echo $1
zathura -s -x "gvim --servername $1 -c \"let g:syncpdf='$1'\" --remote +%{line} %{input}" $*