Vim Tips and Tricks

The FastSoft engineers often give presentations to bring each-other up to date on technical issues. These presentations are appropriately called “speedups” (get it? fastsoft? speedups? har har). This speedup, given by @kriskowal, is a tricks and tips discussion on his favorite editor, vim.

“Slides” for this presentation:

^w hjkl move to windows

^w HJKL move windows

^w +- horizontal resize
^w = even splits
^w10&lt;&gt; vertical resize

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:!

   /----------------------\
   |:e :e# :vs :sp ^w hjkl|
   |:e :e# :vs :sp ^w hjkl|
   |:e :e# :vs :sp ^w hjkl|
   |:e :e# :vs :sp ^w hjkl|
   \----------------------/

:n :N

Vv^V o
&gt;&gt; &lt;&lt;
=
:set et sw ts
:!expand unexpand
gq
:set ve=all
comment/uncomment
:set incsearch n N
:noh
:set tw

highlight OverLength ctermbg=red ctermfg=white guibg=red guifg=white
match OverLength '\%78v.*'

:set modeline
:set wrap lbr number
/ n .