Comments on: 7 Relatively Unknown But Very Powerful Vim Features

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Live from Yokohama » Blog Archive » links for 2007-01-16 — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 04:08:22 +0000

[...] 7 Relatively Unknown But Very Powerful Vim Features Who knew Vim had so many interesting features? (tags: vim vi) [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:39:58 +0000

better text for #7 here:

if has("syntax) syntax on endif

Keeps you from getting a warning if your copy of vim doesn't have syntax highlighting turned on.

I also like to set my tabstop/shiftwidth to 4 (because 8 gets really messy when you nest enough if statements). Also, if you set one and not the other, I've found that some freaky stuff happens:

set tabstop=4 set shiftwidth=4

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:39:00 +0000

better text for #7 here:

if has("syntax) syntax on endif

Keeps you from getting a warning if your copy of vim doesn't have syntax highlighting turned on.

I also like to set my tabstop/shiftwidth to 4 (because 8 gets really messy when you nest enough if statements). Also, if you set one and not the other, I've found that some freaky stuff happens:

set tabstop=4 set shiftwidth=4

By: Some practical Vim tips.

Some practical Vim tips. — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:03:53 +0000

[...] So today I was pleased when I read an article giving some helpful Vim tips. It’s a great resource for those who are new to Vim, and want to access some very powerful features. For instance, editing two files at once is often a very useful thing to be able to do, even if you’re just viewing one of the files and editing the other. The ctrl-n word autocomplete functionality is another gem. And the enabling of syntax highlighting via a single line in one’s ~/.vimrc file is something most developers will want to be doing. I do suggest reading the article, especially if you are just coming over to Vim. You’ll learn about many new features in very little time. [...]