Practical Vim

• The Vim Way
  • Tip1: Meet the Dot Command
  • Tip 2: Don't Repeat Yourself
  • Tip 3: Take One Step Back, Then Three Forward
  • Tip 4: Act, Repeat, Reverse
  • Tip 5: Find and Replace by Hand
  • Tip 6: Meet the Dot Formula
• Part-I: Modes
  • Normal Mode
    • Tip 7: Pause with Your Brush Off the Page
    • Tip 8: Chunk Your Undos
    • Tip 9: Compose Repeatable Changes
    • Tip 10: Use Counts to Do Simple Arithmetic
    • Tip 11: Don't Count If You Can Repeat
    • Tip 12: Combine and Conquer
  • Insert Mode
    • Tip 13: Make Corrections Instantly from Insert Mode
    • Tip 14: Get Back to Normal Mode
    • Tip 15: Paste From a Register Without Leaving Insert Mode
    • Tip 16: Do Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations in Place
    • Tip 17: Insert Unusual Characters by Character Code
    • Tip 18: Insert Unusual Characters by Digraph
    • Tip 19: Overwrite Existing Text with Replace Mode
  • Visual Mode
    • Tip 20: Grok Visual Mode
    • Tip 21: Define a Visual Selection
    • Tip 22: Repeat Line-Wise Visual Commands
    • Tip 23: Prefer Operators to Visual Commands Where Possible
    • Tip 24: Edit Tabular Data with Visual-Block Mode
    • Tip 25: Change Columns of Text
    • Tip 26: Append after a Ragged Visual Block
  • Command-Line Mode
    • Tip 27: Meet Vim's Command Line
    • Tip 28: Execute a Command on One or More Consecutive Lines
    • Tip 29: Duplicate or Move Lines Using :t and :m Commnads
    • Tip 30: Run Normal Mode Commands Across a Range
    • Tip 31: Repeat the Last Ex Command
    • Tip 32: Tab-Complete Your Ex Commands
    • Tip 33: Insert the Current Word at the Command Prompt
    • Tip 34: Recall Commands from History
    • Tip 35: Run Command in the Shell
• Part-II: Files
  • Manage Multiple Files
    • Tip 36: Track Open Files with the Buffer List
    • Tip 37: Group Buffers into a Collection with the Argument List
    • Tip 38: Manage Hidden Files
    • Tip 39: Divide Your Workspace into Split Window
    • Tip 40: Organize Your Window Layouts with Tab Pages
  • Open Files and Save Them to Disk
    • Tip 41: Open a File by Its Filepath Using :edit
    • Tip 42: Open a File by Its Filename Using :find
    • Tip 43: Expore the File System with netrw
    • Tip 44: Save Files to Nonexistent Directories
    • Tip 45: Save a File as the Super User
• Part-III: Getting Around Faster
  • Navigate Inside Files with Motions
    • Tip 46: Keep Your Fingers on the Home Row
    • Tip 47: Distinguish Between Real Lines and Display Lines
    • Tip 48: Move Word-Wise
    • Tip 49: Find by Character
    • Tip 50: Search to Navigate
    • Tip 51: Trace Your Selection with Precision Text Objects
    • Tip 52: Delete Around, or Change Inside
    • Tip 53: Mark Your Place and Snap Back to It
    • Tip 54: Jump Between Matching Parentheses
  • Navigate Between Files with Jumps
    • Tip 55: Traverse the Jump List
    • Tip 56: Traverse the Change List
    • Tip 57: Jump to the Filename Under the Cursor
    • Tip 58: Snap Between Files Using Global Marks
• Part-IV: Registers
  • Copy and Paste
    • Tip 59: Delete, Yank, and Put with Vim's Unnamed Register
    • Tip 60: Grok Vim's Registers
    • Tip 61: Replace a Visual Selection with a Register
    • Tip 62: Replace a Visual Selection with a Register
    • Tip 63: Interact with the System Clipboard
  • Macros
    • Tip 64: Record and Execute a Macro
    • Tip 65: Notmalize, Strike, Abort
    • Tip 66: Play Back with a Count
    • Tip 67: Repeart a Change on Contiguous Lines
    • Tip 68: Append Commands to a Macro
    • Tip 69: Act Upon a Collection of Files
    • Tip 70: Evaluate an Iteractor to Number Items in a List
    • Tip 71: Edit the Contents of a Macro
• Part-V: Patterns
  • Matching Patterns and Literals
    • Tip 72: Tune the Case Sensitivity of Search Patterns
    • Tip 73: Use the v Pattern Switch for Regex Search
    • Tip 74: Use the V Literal Switch for Verbatim Search
    • Tip 75: Use Parentheses to Capture Submatches
    • Tip 76: Stake the Boundaries of a Word
    • Tip 77: Stake the Boundaries of a Match
    • Tip 78: Escape Problem Characters
  • Search
    • Tip 79: Meet the Search Command
    • Tip 80: Highlight Search Matches
    • Tip 81: Preview the First Match Before Execution
    • Tip 82: Count the Matches for the Current Pattern
    • Tip 83: Offset the Cursor to the End of a Search Match
    • Tip 84: Operate on a Complete Search Match
    • Tip 85: Create Complex Patterns by Iterating upon Search History
    • Tip 86: Search for the Current Visual Selection
  • Substitution
    • Tip 87: Meet the Substitute Command
    • Tip 88: Find and Replace Every Match in a File
    • Tip 89: Eyeball Each Substitution
    • Tip 90: Reuse the Last Search Pattern
    • Tip 91: Replace with the Contents of a Register
    • Tip 92: Repeat the Previous Substitute Command
    • Tip 93: Rearrange CSV Fields Using Submatches
    • Tip 94: Perform Arithmetic on the Replacement
    • Tip 95: Swap Two or More Words
    • Tip 96: Find and Replace Across Multiple Files
  • Global Commands
    • Tip 97: Meet the Global Command
    • Tip 98: Delete Lines Containing a Pattern
    • Tip 99: Collect TODO Items in a Register
    • Tip 100: Alphabetize the Properties of Each Rule in a CSS File
• Part-VI: Tools
  • Index and Navigate Source Code with ctags
    • Tip 101: Meet ctags
    • Tip 102: Configure Vim to Work with ctags
    • Tip 103: Navigate Keyword Definitions with Vim's Tag Navigation Commands
  • Compile Code and Navigate Errors with the Quickfix List
    • Tip 104: Compile Code Without Leaving Vim
    • Tip 105: Browse the Quick List
    • Tip 106: Recall Results from a Previous Quickfix List
    • Tip 107: Customize the External Compiler
  • Search Project-Wide with grep, vimgrep, and Others
    • Tip 108: Call grep Without Leaving Vim
    • Tip 109: Customize the grep Program
    • Tip 110: Grep with Vim's Internal Search Engine
  • Dial X for Autocompletion
    • Tip 111: Meet Vim's Keyword Autocompletion
    • Tip 112: Work with the Autocomplete Pop-Up Menu
    • Tip 113: Understand the Source of Keywords
    • Tip 114: Autocomplete Words from the Dictionary
    • Tip 115: Autocomplete Entire Lines
    • Tip 116: Autocomplete Filenames
    • Tip 117: Autocomplete with Context Awareness
  • Find and Fix Typos with Vim's Spell Checker
    • Tip 118: Spell Check Your Work
    • Tip 119: Use Alternate Spelling Dictionaries
    • Tip 120: Add Words to the Spell File
    • Tip 121: Fix Spelling Errors from Insert Mode