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============
It's vim!
============
Typical .vimrc
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Here's what a typical ``.vimrc`` looks like for me::
if has('syntax') && (&t_Co > 2)
syntax on
endif
set history=50
set wildmode=list:longest,full
set showmode
set showcmd
set smartcase
set shiftwidth=4
set tabstop=4
set shiftround
set expandtab
set autoindent
autocmd BufRead *.py set smartindent cinwords=if,elif,else,for,while,try,except, finally,def,class
Commands
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I search and replace globally a lot::
:%s/before/after/g
Tricks
-------------
I often want to pull a particular gnarly line or two from another file; here's
the command I use to grab three lines of context around 'phrase'::
:r!grep -A 3 'phrase' ../otherfile.txt
Pasting a lot of text with insert mode if very slow because vim redraws the
terminal for every single character entered (as you would want if you were
actually typing. To paste in the contents of the X11 clipboard you want to use::
"*P
(aka quote, star, uppercase-P) in regular mode. This also solves the
autotabbing problem without ":set paste"! You need to have "+xterm_clipboard"
in your ``vim --version`` output for this to work; the ``vim-gtk`` package on
newer Ubuntus has been compiled with this flag (?).
Sometimes you really need tab characters instead of space indendation (eg, when
editing Makefiles). To use tabs when editing a file use::
:set noexpandtab
If you accidently opened a file you can't write to, you can write out as root
using::
:w !sudo tee %
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