[XCSSA] [SATLUG] RE: Tweeks Advanced "Vim" For Developers

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

About a year ago I turned into a vim monster. I use ViEmu for Visual Studio
and SSMS, Vimperator for Firefox, ViPlugin for Eclipse, and vim for
everything else. I don't really like using the mouse and these addons turn
most of my day to day computer usage into keyboard only. Vimperator for
firefox is awesome and saves me hours I'm sure. I'm definitely going to
check out the code folding articles below!

One of my favorite features of vim is buffers. "ayy to yank a line into
buffer a, and "ap to paste the line. The only thing I don't like with
standard vim is that you can't call buffers in recording mode (qa to record,
"ap to paste buffer a, q to stop recording, @a to use the macro will paste
"ap instead of the line in the buffer).

- Ben3

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 12:08 AM, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio <
xcssa at xcssa.org> wrote:

> On Saturday 29 August 2009 04:43:09 am Robert Pearson wrote:
> [...]
> > Do you have any information you can share on the configuration of the
> > "vim" you are using?
> > Is the "vim" advanced (like an IDE for Ruby) or is it just the editor
> > of choice for the project?
>
> You mean vimenhanced?  Well yea.. you want that to get all the bells and
> whistles.. Most distros don't seem to come with anything bug vim-tiny
> (Debian) vim-minimal.   But I recommend you get:
>        (in Debian/Ubuntu)
>        vim-common
>        vim-doc
>        vim-full (or vim-gnome)
>        vim-gtk (all the ruby, tcl, python context stuff)
>        vim-runtime
>        vim-scripts
>
> On RPM systems.. umm.. I think it was like:
>        vimcommon
>        vimenhanced
>        vimscripts
> or something along those lines (haven't done RHat in many moons now).
> Anyone
> RH geeks want to jump in.. please do.  Just do a "yum search vim" and have
> a
> look and install most of it and you'll be good. :)
>
> The first thing you will want to give your vim folks is the vim cheat
> sheet:
>
> http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/QRC/VIM%20Quick%20Reference%20Card.pdf
>
> If these are developers, then you'll also want to make sure that they check
> out vimdiff. Very cool for comparing code versions.  It can even compare a
> local file to a remote file (via http or ssh based with keys-auth set up)!
>
> One thing developers will also want is the ability to generate ctag files
> for
> content or projects that you're working on (install ctags or etags
> packages).
> For example.. if you DL wordpress or some such PHP code system, you can CD
> into the wordpress php/html casebase and run a "ctags -R *" to recursively
> generate a ctags file that will empower vim to hypertext jump between code
> files/functions that reference eachother (usting CTRL-] and CTRL-t for
> navigation).  VERY cool.. more info here:
>
>
> http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/04/ctags-taglist-vi-vim-editor-as-sourece-code-browser/
>        http://vimeo.com/4007386
>
>
> Also check out code folding:
>        http://vimeo.com/4020903
>
> http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/video?name=3160060&fromSeriesID=316
>
> Wow.. That vimeo.com site ROCKS! If you have devs, definately have them
> poke
> through that site to get warmed up. :)
>
> Supposedly one of the best books on really tweaking out your vim setup
> is "Hacking Vim":
>        http://www.amazon.com/dp/1847190936
>
> BTW.. just for the record.. I am NOT a "vim guru".  Most of my foo comes
> from
> the all knowing David Roth ("the vim guru" at Rackspace :)
> Most of the cool stuff I do in vim came from him at one time or another. :)
>
> Although, one web-admin trick that I DID actually show him once was vim's
> ability to process files using "vim scripts".. think of them as file based
> macros.
>
> So if I wanted to seach through an html file for ever ocurrance
> of "tweeks at example.com" and replace it with "tom at example.com", I can
> simply
> create a file called "tweeks2tom.vsh" that has this in it:
>        :%s/tweeks at example.com/tom at example.com/g
>        :w!
>        :q
>
> and then invoke it like this:
>        vim -s tweeks2tom.vsh index.html
>
> The cool thing is that conbined with find, it becomes VERY powerful:
>        find /var/www/ -name "*.html" -exec vim -s tweeks2tom.vsh {} \;
>
> and watch it fly! (it really is quite cool to watch visually!  much more
> exciting than sed ;).
>
> Anyway.. I've yammered enough..  hope some of this helped someone.
>
> Tweeks
> p.s. for the record.. vim, the best editor on the planet, was actually
> written
> on and for the Amiga platform in 1988  :)
>        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_%28text_editor%29>
> Long live Amy!
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