In every programmers life comes a moment when they need to deal with Vim somehow - some people just need to close it once accidentally opened, some people need to start using it for work. For a long while I could get away without using it but then I had to start editing scripts and a simple notepad did not seem to be too useful to do that. Ancient roots Vim was released 21 years ago so most of us can argue that is is an ancient editor. An editor from an era where even Java wasn't invented (it was released in 1995).

This reason alone could invalidate its usage as so many things changed since then. Well, the thing may not be that different. We are still using some kind of text editors to write source code and the problems around code writing are roughly the same: quickly edit and reformat specially formatted texts. From the first look Vim is an editor that does not even support mouse and even deleting a line is troublesome - not to mention exiting the editor. However (given that we are willing to sacrifice couple of hours to learn the basics) Vim is a very-very capable and customizable editor. Most of the very fundamental features that helps code writing are there: autocompletion, autoformatting indents, jumping between functions, syntax highlighting and so on. It's true that default settings of the editor help to hide the interesting features, so let's have a look how to make Vim not suck.

: set noswapfile ' Don't use swap/temp files For basic code editing these settings are sufficient. Videos for: mac dre 4 much. However, for more serious coding it makes sense to enable code autocompletion. Introducing neocomplcache Vim by default supports autocompletion but it requires to press funny key combinations like - to list the suggestions (this will bring up the OmniComplete dialog).

However, it can be a bit inconvenient to use, so adding a plugin that automatically opens the completion dialog on typing is much easier. There are a lot of different plugins that help with this, one of them is neocomplcache. To install, add this line to.vimrc: let g:neocomplcacheenableatstartup = 1 And.

Make a directory under home called.vim and copy the content of the downloaded source into it. To verify that the plugin is loaded after startup, check it using the:scriptnames If everything is set up properly when editing a code or text file the purple autocomplete popup should show when it finds a chunk of word that was mentioned before in this or other currently opened file. Alternatively there is another plugin called which is a bit heavier but very popular autocomplete. It worth giving it a try. Running external programs on current file Vim may fail on you if you want to have fancy code formatting so in some cases the easiest solution is to rely on external code formatters (note: if you are lucky enough, someone created these as Vim plugins as well). To dump the current file to a programs standard input and replace the current file with the program's standard output, simply create a mapping for a specific file type like this: autocmd FileType javascript nnoremap ff:%!/temp/js-beautify/js-beautify -t -i. Learning new tricks With Vim the learning process is pretty much never finished, we just get to a point that is enough for us.

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However, once in a while it worth to make sure we are not missing something obvious. Of course, a can come handy too. Love it, hate it? Give it a go - there is always room to turn back! Updates Speed up HTML creation It's quite typical that we need to create a complex HTML tree structure when editing a document but it can be a bit time consuming. Creating the following takes an effort: Contact us Copyright. Vim by default does not recognize the new HTML5 tags like footer or video.

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