Romain Lafourcade romainl

What to do with macros?

"Macro", you say? Or is that "recording"?

What people refer to as a "macro" is often actually a "recording".

You press qa to start recording your commands into register a, you do your thing, you stop your recording with q, and you play that recording back with @a.

Yes, what you just recorded is a macro, but macros are not necessarily recorded or even stored in registers.

Insert the current line into the command-line

This is an intuitive command-line mode mapping to insert the current line.

It is no longer needed since 8.0.1787 because the feature is now built-in. See :help c_ctrl-r_ctrl-l.

My Vim-related gists.

My Vim-related gists

Long-form

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.

This gist is no longer maintained.

See https://github.com/romainl/vim-devdocs for an up-to-date version.

Look up keywords on https://devdocs.io from Vim

Use :DD without argument to look up the word under the cursor, scoped with the current filetype:

This is a list of custom pseudo-text objects for Vim.

Note the use of "pseudo", here. Conceptually, text object are "special" motions but there is no proper mechanism dedicated to creating text objects, specifically. We are left with the generic mechanism succinctly described under the easy-to-miss :help omap-info.

Writing one's own pseudo-text objects and motions is a great way to extend Vim without perverting its nature ;-).

My Vim-related gists.

	hi u0 ctermbg=red
	hi u1 ctermbg=yellow
	hi u2 ctermbg=cyan
	hi u3 ctermbg=darkgreen
	hi u4 ctermbg=magenta
	hi u5 ctermbg=darkred

	let all_nicks = []

	function! IsolateNicks(key, val)

	" Use a bunch of standard UNIX commands for quick an dirty
	" whitespace-based alignment
	function! Align()
	'<,'>!column -t\|sed 's/ \(\S\)/ \1/g'
	normal gv=
	endfunction

	xnoremap <silent> <key> :<C-u>silent call Align()<CR>

	" MIT License

	" Copyright (c) 2017 romain Lafourcade

	" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	" of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	" in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
	" to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
	" copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
	" furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

	" Mac OS X (requires curl)
	" ------------------------
	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