In vimwiki, I can input a link like this:
[[link]]
When I put cursor on the line, [[]] is visible:
>[[http://www.google.com/]]<
When the cursor is moved away, [[]] is invisible:
>http://www.google.com/<
I notice this behavior in vim's help manual(:help vim): *vim:*(*s are invisible until I type V).
I cannot figure out how it works. Thanks for your help.
This is a feature called "conceal" that was added in vim 7.3 (if I recall correctly). For a simple example, try this.
Open a buffer and type three lines, the middle one being "foobarbaz". Then enter the following ex commands:
set conceallevel=2
syntax match Todo /bar/ conceal
When your cursor is on the "foobarbaz" line, "bar" will be visible (and highlighted with the Todo highlight group if you have syntax highlighting on). Once you move off the line, "bar" will disappear.
For more information see :help conceal and :help conceallevel.
I think that hiding text can be a very helpful feature. Think about text folding or readability of links.
To hide text Vim 7.3 has introduced the "conceal" argument. Hiding text is a well defined Vim feature. It is not a dirty trick.
See
:help :syn-conceal
:help 'conceallevel'
:help 'concealcursor'
Please note that conceal works only for syntax regions, not for matches.
I have no experience with conceal, so I can't provide an example out of the box.
Habi
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In vim, I have to change someText.someTextAfterDot string to someText.somethingDifferent. The cursor is at the t in After. What should be the most efficient way to do this?
If I use 'cw' command then that removes the complete someText.someTextAfterDot including someText which I don't think is efficient because now I have to type the someText again.
Normally, I use 'F.ce' (find the last . and edit till end of current word) command and then type somethingDifferent. This seems like a lot of work as in other editors (like WebStorm or Sublime) a simple double click on someTextAfterDot can do the trick.
Is there any other more efficient way to do this in vim?
First of all cw should only go forward so only remove terDot. If cw is doing anything more then I assume you have some bad mappings.
The "inner" word text object, iw, is what you need. e.g. ciw. However if you have added . to 'iskeyword' then word's will include . and the behavior of ciw will be incorrect.
To find out where 'iskeyword' is last set use the following command:
:verbose set iskeyword?
For more help see:
:h 'iskeyword'
:h iw
:h w
:h cw
:h :verbose
My intuition would be to type bdeisomethingDifferent. I dunno that it's a great improvement, but it at least doesn't make you type the . again the way F.ce does.
I normally use change inner word for that. You simply have to type
ciwsomethingDifferent
Check the documentation for text object selection too.
In emacs, as you type, it will show you the matching parentheses, but there is a separate setting to highlight matching parentheses that the cursor is on. Is there something I can write in .vimrc to make this happen? Everything I've found completely turns off parenthesis matching, which is not quite what I want.
Thanks for any help!
EDIT: Addressing the comment about a possible duplicate, that answer explains how to turn on what I want to turn off. I want paren matching as I type, but I don't want highlighting when my cursor is on a parenthesis. Thanks!
" Briefly jump to the matching bracket when typing
set showmatch
" Turn off the default matchparen plugin (on demand):
NoMatchParen
" Alternatively (in your .vimrc, to completely disable the plugin):
let loaded_matchparen = 1
Is there any way to configure Omnicompletion for / searches? So searching for /be would suggest other words in the text such as:
/be<tab>
Beatles
beer
Beethoven
personally, I think after typing / you can type a regex, auto-completion doesn't make much sense here... vim doesn't know what you want to have, how can it give suggestions? It is not like in Insert mode.
However there is way to achieve it.
you type /
you type Ctrl-F
you type i (go into insert mode)
you type beTAB
now you see the popup menu.
this works not only for /, but also for : (cmd mode)
Ctrl-F is handy when we write long commands
detail:
:h cedit
You can use the CmdlineComplete plugin.
It will be triggered with <C-n> / <C-p>, and won't show a completion menu (but you can cycle through candidates by repeating the trigger).
You can use a combination of 'incsearch' and command-line completion with CtrlR CtrlW (:h c_CTRL-R_CTRL-W) to achieve something quite close to what you want:
:set incsearch.
Start typing your search pattern, e.g. /Be. The cursor moves to the next potential match as you type.
As soon as the cursor lands on the word you want to complete, hit CtrlR CtrlW. This pulls the word down into your search prompt: it effectively "completes" your search pattern.
At stage 3 you could also use these variants instead:
CtrlR CtrlA (:h c_CTRL-R_CTRL-A) pulls down the WORD instead of the word.
CtrlL (:h c_CTRL-L) completes character by character.
I used the aforementioned CmdLineComplete plugin until I learned about
set incsearch
As a programmer by heart, if not by profession, I increasingly rely on, nay live in VIM for most editing-related tasks. What tips can you offer for using (almost) everyone's favorite editor for editing general-purpose text, say, an article? I mean plain text, with minimal markup using Markdown or RST; I'm not looking for support for LaTeX or for entering mathematical formulae.
I enable soft-wrapping when I'm editing most text files:
:set wrap
If you decide to do the same, then you'll want to know about gj and gk in normal mode, to move by screen lines instead of physical lines. I use them so often I remapped the up and down arrow keys to them instead of k and j.
Whether you're editing hard- or soft-wrapped files, you'll get a lot of mileage out of gqap (or its cousin gwap) to re-wrap a single paragraph with hard newlines, and vipJ to join all the lines of a hard-wrapped paragraph back into a single line.
You might also want to consider including a in formatoptions, to enable automatic paragraph formatting:
:set formatoptions+=a
When you're doing all this wrapping and unwrapping, it's nice to keep Vim from mangling numbered lists:
:set formatoptions+=n
In fact, I'd suggest reviewing all the formatoptions and adjusting them to your particular preferences:
:help fo-table
More info:
:help gj
:help gk
:help gqap
:help auto-format
:help formatoptions
Spell checking:
:setlocal spell spelllang=en_us
" ]s moves to the next mispelled word
" [s moves to the previous mispelled word
Set a thesuarus for Vim
Use par to format text
It's not very well maintained, but the Vim-Outliner project makes Vim into a killer outliner for plain text writing. You can download v0.34 here (there's a more recent version, I think, but I'm not sure where to get it):
http://www.vimoutliner.org/postnuke-phoenix-0.7.2.3/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=viewdownload&cid=4
I really enjoyed this blogpost about writing better with latex. You could use vim-latex :) It's more about writing better, than just editing english text though.
http://matt.might.net/articles/shell-scripts-for-passive-voice-weasel-words-duplicates/
Use insert abbreviations:
iabbr teh the
iabbr i I
iabbr definately definitely
Edit, another tip:
set wrap nolist linebreak
This tells vim to wrap lines that are too long with "visual" newlines rather than adding an actual newline character to the file. The 'list' option must be off because it automatically disables the 'linebreak' option.
Can standard mouse input be customized in vim (in my case gvim)? Plugins are acceptable options too.
I'm specifically interested in "overriding" a double-click on a word, so that instead of just highlighting the word, gvim does a search and thus highlights all instances of this word in the file. I've seen this functionality in other editors and found it very useful.
See :help double-click. It should have everything you need. For example from the help page:
An example, for using a double click to jump to the tag under the cursor:
:map <2-LeftMouse> :exe "tag ". expand("<cword>")<CR>
I don't regarding mouse, but you can press */# to search word under cursor forward/backward.