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Enable spell-checking in Vim and customize default behavior

vdanen — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:43:20 +0000

Last week’s techmail was Enable spell-checking in Vim and customize default behavior which talks about how to get spell checking enabled in vim. I actually wasn’t even aware that vim could do spell checking natively until a little while ago, and it sure makes for my use of it with mutt so much nicer. On the other hand, having spell checking enabled all the time isn’t ideal because doing any programming in vim will have the spell check highlighting off the charts, so this tip shows how to enable it for certain file types, and leave it off for others, so it is enabled only when you want it, and it’s out of the way when you don’t.

Hacking Vim covers the basics and reveals tips for power users

vdanen — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:02:16 +0000

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.

Use tabs to open multiple files in vim

vdanen — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:12:29 +0000

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

vdanen — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:41:51 +0000

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.