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Thursday August 22, 2002
08:07 AM

advanced gvim

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In the last week, I've learned a few more gvim commands to make me more productive. There are so many damned commands, I wonder if anyone actually knows all of them.

Anyway, the new ones I learned were the ">" and "<" keys to indent or unindent a block of highlighted code. I also learned that you can do code folding and unfolding with zf and zo, respectively. Not the prettiest, but cool.


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  • I kind of like Vim's indenting, although I also find it useful to use perltidy as a pipe, to really clean things up properly.

    Useful commands:

    • =} - Indent to next blank line.
    • =aB - Indent this "block".
    • ^T - (insert mode) Move to next indent.
    • ^D - (insert mode) Move to previous indent.
    • !}perltidy -q - Filter paragraph through perltidy.
    • !aBperltidy -q - Filter block through perltidy.

    Actually, the commands beginning with '=' there are only in Vim 6.1 and higher. I have this in my ~/.vimrc to enabl

    • Also, for those using vim, not gvim, shift-V starts a line block, and ctrl-V does a column block. I use it constantly.

      I also like to justify my (non-code) text fairly often, so I do plenty of :!fmt on those blocks.

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      xoa

      • I tend to use gqap rather than fmt these days. fmt is a little inflexible...

        Of course, if I were a real fanatic, I'd be using DCONWAY's Text::AutoFormat [cpan.org].

        -Dom

        • I tend to use gqap rather than fmt these days. fmt is a little inflexible...

          I didn't know about :gqap. Thanks for the pointer.

          Of course, if I were a real fanatic, I'd be using DCONWAY's Text::AutoFormat.

          Don't think I didn't consider it... :-)

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          xoa

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