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Vim: pushing built-in features beyond their limits

The situation

Searching can be an efficient way to navigate the current buffer.

The first search commands we learn are usually / and ?. These are seriously cool, especially with the incsearch option enabled which lets us keep typing to refine our search pattern. / and ? really shine when all we want is to jump to something we already have our eyeballs on but they are not fit for every situation:

when we want to search something that's not directly there, those two commands can make us lose context very quickly,
when we need to compare the matches.

via (https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/442438-vim-tips-folding-fun)

zf#j creates a fold from the cursor down # lines.
zf/string creates a fold from the cursor to string .
zj moves the cursor to the next fold.
zk moves the cursor to the previous fold.
zo opens a fold at the cursor.
zO opens all folds at the cursor.
zm increases the foldlevel by one.
zM closes all open folds.

There are a number of good introductory SQL resources available for free and online. There are also some paid resources which I recommend for beginners, that are very effective, and well worth expensing in my opinion.

A couple of notes:

I haven’t used all of these resources, but they come with strong recommendations around the web or myself/my peers.
You absolutely don’t need to use every single resource. Find a couple that work for you, and go to town.
You can always reach out to me if you have questions. I always paste this online when people are new to asking very technical questions – it’s not meant to be snarky – it's a gentle guide on how to compose your questions and gather necessary resources in order to best give technical people the information needed to get a quick/effective response: http://www.mikeash.com/getting_answers.html

Video/Class/Mini-course based:

Stanford Self-paced ‘Database’ course

The original Coursera

Default behavior dictates the following order for ZSH startup files:

/etc/zshenv
~/.zshenv
/etc/zprofile (if login shell)
~/.zprofile (if login shell)
/etc/zshrc (if interactive)
~/.zshrc (if interactive)
/etc/zlogin (if login shell)
~/.zlogin (if login shell)

This gist is no longer maintained.

See https://github.com/romainl/idiomatic-vimrc for an up-to-date version.

My Vim-related gists.

	" Put this in your .vimrc and whenever you `git commit` you'll see the diff of your commit next to your commit message.
	" For the most accurate diffs, use `git config --global commit.verbose true`

	" BufRead seems more appropriate here but for some reason the final `wincmd p` doesn't work if we do that.
	autocmd VimEnter COMMIT_EDITMSG call OpenCommitMessageDiff()
	function OpenCommitMessageDiff()
	" Save the contents of the z register
	let old_z = getreg("z")
	let old_z_type = getregtype("z")

	import asyncio
	from contextlib import closing

	import aiohttp


	async def download_file(session: aiohttp.ClientSession, url: str):
	async with session.get(url) as response:
	assert response.status == 200
	# For large files use response.content.read(chunk_size) instead.

	" ============================================================================
	" Description: Insert pair charactor automaticly
	" Author: Qiming Zhao <chemzqm@gmail.com>
	" Licence: Vim licence
	" Version: 0.1
	" Last Modified: Sep 13, 2016
	" ============================================================================
	if exists('did_simple_pairs_loaded') \| finish \| endif
	let did_simple_pairs_loaded = 1
	let s:pairs = {'(': ')', '[': ']', '{': '}', '"': '"', "'": "'", '`' : '`'}

	" ============================================================================
	" Description: Open url under cursor or git repository of a module
	" Author: Qiming Zhao <chemzqm@gmail.com>
	" Licence: Vim licence
	" Version: 0.1
	" Last Modified: January 16, 2016
	" ============================================================================

	if exists('did_open_loaded') \|\| v:version < 700
	finish

	"*******************************************
	"**** Felipe Francisco - @felipecwb ****
	"**** https://github.com/felipecwb ****
	"*******************************************

	"" Vim-PLug core
	"*****************************************************************************
	if has('vim_starting')
	set nocompatible " Be iMproved
	endif