In Eclipse, there is the nice feature of deleting the word until the next capital letter when you press Ctrl+Backspace. For example:
ThisIsSomeText
If you press Ctrl+Backspace, only "Text" will be deleted, where as in VS all the "ThisIsSomeText" will be deleted.
Is there anyway to implement the same in VIM?
If yes, is there similar method for Ctrl-Del also? That as, pressing Ctrl-Del at the beginning of the previous example will only delete "This", rather than all the "ThisIsSomeText".
I don't think it's a native vim feature, but I think this script might help (note: I haven't actually used it myself): http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1356&rating=life_changing
Update:
Another script: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1905
This might do what you want:
nnoremap <C-BS> d?[A-Z]
There may be some fiddliness with the last character in the word. Also, you didn't mention whether you wanted it for Normal mode or Insert mode.
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I fairly often find myself in a situation like this:
I'd like to start typing on the line on which my cursor is currently. However, in order to get to the correct indentation level, I'd have to press TAB several times.
Usually I'd press ddO (delete current line and insert a new one above the cursor), which resets my indentation position to the right place:
But that seems like an odd way to go about adding the correct amount of whitespace.
Is there a better way that I'm overlooking?
When in normal mode, you can use cc or its synonym S. If you are already in insert mode, Ctrlf is the default key for this, but that can be changed by altering cinkeys (see :h cink for details).
See also this answer on the Vi/Vim stack
Kevin mentioned some shortcuts, but another method is <C-i> (indent) and <C-d> (dedent) in insert mode.
I frequently use the combination c-a-w to change a word in Vim.
Are there any similar means by which one can quickly also change all other occurrences of said word in the specific file?
Use gn option for this purpose, in my case, I have a slightly different version of it
" allows me to use a smarter cgn
nnoremap c* *<c-o>cgn
nnoremap c# #<C-o>cgn
Now when you have to change a word many times, as long as you have not so many of it, because in this case, a classical substitution would be better, just press c* and then press "dot --> ." to change the next occurrencies of it.
If you want to see how awesomeness gn can give us have a look at: Operating on search matches using gn (vimcasts)
You could try:
%s/<CTRL-R><CTRL-W>/NewWord/g
<CTRL-R><CTRL-W> means keep control key pressed and hit R and W.
This copies the word under the cursor to the command line.
See :help c_CTRL-R_CTRL-W.
The main command for replacement of all occurrences is :substitute. Unfortunately, being an Ex command, it doesn't integrate too well with the single-word replacement (e.g. caw) in normal mode: Though you can insert the previously replaced word into the command-line with <C-R>", you still have to enclose it in \<...\> to enforce a whole word match, and also escape any special characters inside the word.
That said, there are plugins that offer help in that area. One of them is my ChangeGlobally plugin, which offers a gc{motion} alternative to c{motion} that then applies the change (or deletion) to other matches in the same line or entire buffer. (The plugin page has links to alternative plugins.)
Sorry for a noob question, but i find it struggling to just put a ";" at the end of line after writing a function. For example, I am coding in C and many time i need to write things like:
f(a);
what i usually type is (from normal mode, using bracket autopair-like feature):
if(a<ESC><SHIFT-a>;
and it need changing mode twice! Comparing to normal editor (sublime):
f(a<right>;
does anyone have more efficient way do do those typing? thanks for any help.
I think you have some "auto-close" plugin installed.
I have that kind of plugin too, and I don't press arrow keys either, since I don't have them on my keyboard. I have this:
" moving cursor out of (right of ) autoClosed brackets
inoremap <c-l> <esc>%%a
So with your example: it would be (assume already in INSERT mode)
f(a<ctrl-l>;
Thus, your fingers never leave the home row.
If you're a vim user, you can hit Shift-a.
Shift-a takes you from normal mode to insert mode, and starts your cursor at the end of the line.
(If you want to be an efficient vim user, you should remap esc to something like caps-lock.)
Comparing to normal editor (sublime):
f(a<right>;
Well… that's exactly how you would do it in Vim if you use Delimitmate or some other "autoclosing" plugin. Why do you insist on making things more complicated than they are?
Recently when I tried to use the ctrl+n or ctrl+p to auto-complete, when there are multiple alternatives, tapping the enter button will insert a new line instead choose the alternative I want.
This did not happen before, maybe because I installed too many plugins and caused the conflicts. It would be horrible to check all these plugins' shot cuts and find out the source. So mapping the built-in auto-complete to some other keys could be a solution, but I don't know how to do that.
This is not a big problem but really made coding not "smooth". Anybody has met this situation before and how did you deal with it.
Short answer: You don't need to use <cr> to accept a match.
Snippet from the vim help :h popupmenu-keys
The behavior of the <Enter> key depends on the state you are in:
first state: Use the text as it is and insert a line break.
second state: Insert the currently selected match.
third state: Use the text as it is and insert a line break.
In other words: If you used the cursor keys to select another entry in the
list of matches then the <Enter> key inserts that match. If you typed
something else then <Enter> inserts a line break.
I would suggest you use <c-n> and <c-p> to switch to the correct mapping and then continue on with your typing. Typically this means I type a space or some other punctuation key and the menu closes. I never use <cr> to select a menu item. If however you really want to accept a match use <c-y>. Think "yes" to the selected menu item.
I just fixed a very similar problem caused by the vim-autoclose plugin by replacing it with the Auto-Pairs plugin. I doubt that yours is exactly the same culprit but it's actually not too bad hunting down the guilty party if you use pathogen for your plugins - just move half of your plugins from ~/.vim/bundle (or wherever they are) into a different folder, restart vim and test the autocompletion. If it works as expected, you know that one of the plugins you have moved out is responsible, so you can do the same again until you have narrowed it down.
Before that, you can also try running vim -u NONE which ignores your .vimrc file - it may be that you've snuck something in yourself and this is the fastest way to rule it out.
Good luck anyway. This took me about ten minutes and after probably a year of occasional annoyance I wish I had taken the time earlier.
I've been using vim for somewhat longer than a year now and during this time I have never feel really comfortable with the way vim works with yanking and pasting text (or maybe it is just me not using it in the most efficient way)
For example, I have the word "World" yanked onto a register, and I want to paste it after "Hello". (Note that there are no spaces on either of the words). So, what I would do is
Hello
|
Place cursor here, and press "p". Then, what I will end up with is
HelloWorld
So, in order to avoid this, I have always to swith into insert mode, insert a espace, and go back into normal mode (or either make sure that the yanked word has a space before it). Be as it may, this is quite annoying behaviour I can't think of a solution for... Am I missing something here?
Suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks
option zero
just live with what you have now.
option one
create a mapping for your workflow. for example
nnoremap <leader>p i<space><esc>p
option two
:set ve=all
then you could move your cursor to anywhere and paste
option three
you could in insert mode use <c-o> do normal mode stuff or <c-r> to get register values
I recommend option zero
You can use the Smartput : Adjust spaces and commas when putting text plugin for that. It modifies the p / P commands (this can be toggled on / off).