My Vim-related gists

vim-gists.md

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• Idiomatic vimrc (superseded by idiomatic-vimrc)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
• What to do with macros?
• Dealing with autocommands
• Linting your code, the vanilla way
• Tags
• Painless ESLint/Standard integration
• Off the beaten path
• Instant grep + quickfix
• Don't use Vim (2018)
• Field notes (2009-2011, in french)

Short-form

• Vim: available lowercase key pairs in normal mode…
• RNB, a Vim colorscheme template (superseded by vim-rnb)
• Show ]I, [I, ]D, [D, :ilist and :dlist results — even spanning multiple files — in the quickfix window. (superseded by vim-qlist)
• Edit all buffers and come back without losing highlighting
• Diff detection in vimscript
• Redirect the output of a Vim or external command into a scratch buffer
• Universal opposite of J
• Make various list-like commands more intuitive
• Sharing is caring
• Custom pseudo-text objects
• Lookup keywords on http://devdocs.io (superseded by vim-devdocs)
• Do things differently depending on the environment
• Ultra lightweight aligning
• Insert the current line into the command-line
• Colorize IRC nicks
• Highlight characters after line 80
• Markdown : jump to next heading
• Repeat last edit n times
• How to add dynamic highlighted parts to your status-line
• Multiply/divide by [count]
• Sort operator
• Print declaration of word under the cursor
• Super cheap git blame
• Formatting without moving
• Substitute operator
• One way to set up MacVim for Python and Python 3 on MacOS (assuming Python and Python 3 were installed through MacPorts)
• Quickfix alternative to :g/foo/#
• Slightly more intuitive gt/gT (may need some unlearning to get used to)
• :DiffOrig but smarter
• A git-jump hack that allows it to be used from within Vim