This week’s TechMail is Hacking Vim covers the basics and reveals tips for power users, which is a book review of “Hacking Vim” by Packt Publishing. If you’re a (serious/wanna-be) vim user, this is a really useful book to read. I learnt a lot of tricks from it.
Tag Archives: vim
Use tabs to open multiple files in vim
This week’s TechMail is Use tabs to open multiple files in vim which pretty much discusses how to use tabs in vim so you can have multiple files open at once. Using some nice key mapping, you can navigate tabs with simple keystrokes and have vim act like any good GUI text editor with tabs.
Create custom keybindings in vim
This week’s TechMail is Create custom keybindings in vim which goes into how to tweak vim’s keybindings to make them more familiar if you come from another editor. It’s also useful to create shortcuts for things such as moving to the end of a line. I’ve been using joe for over 10 years and while I’ve used vim 90% of the time for the last few years, it always irritated me that you had to hit “ESC” then “$” then “i” and then the right arrow to get to the true end-of-line, especially when I was used to joe’s “CTRL-E” to get me there. So making vim do the same thing was a piece of cake, and this tip shows you how to do it.
