Not that I fun of all the GUI niceties, but some people cannot live without mouse and think :b#/:bn/:bp are bore. So vim7 has added a way for mouse fans (*) to work with multiple files.
For tab fans, Linux.com published intro into vim7' tabs: Vim tips: Using tabs.
(*) How people edit text files with mouse is beyond me. Do they use charmap or what? [/sarcasm]
Here we go.:%s/[a-z]/\u&/gSubstitute in all lines (the range defined by '%') all lower case latin letters ('[a-z]') with upper case letters ('[A-Z]'). Substitute in all lines (the range defined by '%') every lower case latin letter ('[a-z]') with upper-case letter ('\u&', see for more info :h s/\u).:<'>' w new_file_from_selection.txt
Write ('w') all selected lines ("<'>'") into new_file_from_selection.txt. (You do not need to type that "<'>'" thing. Select lines in visual mode (entered by Shift-V) and then press ':' - vim will put the <'>' in prompt line for you):5,+99 w new_file.txt
Write ('w') to the file "new_file.txt" lines: 5th and next 99 ones included, total of 100 lines. (Provided that the actual file has minimum 1054 lines).:0,$ ! tac
Filter ('!') all lines ('%' is simple shortcut for '0,$') through the external application 'tac'. The filter command would then replace all affected lines with the output of the application - in that case the lines would reappear in inverse order, thanks to the 'tac' command. ('tac' is of course opposite of 'cat'. man tac.).:<'>' ! wc -l
That would replace all selected (in visual mode) lines with the count of selected lines, as counted by 'wc -l'.
And to conclude, the most useless (unless you're vim scripting addict) range example::.=
Print current line (range '.') number (command '=').
Edit1 Fix the uppercase command, as per anon comment. It should have been some real weird booze I had that day. N.B. more optimal is of course this: :%s/.\+/\U&/.
ZQ
User identification
$ tla my-id "John Doe <user@aol.com>"
$ tla my-id # to print currently set id
Create Archive
$ mkdir ~/{archives}
$ tla make-archive user@aol.com--2006-quickref ~/{archives}/2006-quickref
Find Archives
$ tla archives # to print all available archives
$ tla whereis-archive user@aol.com--2006-quickref
Default Archive
$ tla my-default-archive user@aol.com--2006-quickref
$ tla my-default-archive # to print it
$ tla my-default-archive -d # to delete the preference
Provisioning Archive Space
$ tla archive-setup hello-world--mainline--1.0
$ tla categories # prints hello-world
$ tla branches hello-world # prints hello-world--mainline
$ tla versions hello-world--mainline # prints hello-world--mainline--1.0
Initializing before Import
$ cd ~/wd/hello-world
$ tla init-tree hello-world--mainline--1.0
$ tla tree-root # prints /home/jdoe/wd/hello-world
$ tla tree-version # prints user@aol.com--2006-quickref/hello-world--mainline--1.0
$ tla log-versions # prints user@aol.com--2006-quickref/hello-world--mainline--1.0
$ tla set-tree-version [new-version-name]
$ tla add-log-version [new-log-name]
$ tla remove-log-version [existing-log-name]
Checking Inventory
$ tla inventory --names --source # to see what arch classifies as sources
$ tla inventory --source --ids # to see ids given by arch to sources
$ tla inventory --names --backups # to see what arch classifies as backups
$ tla inventory --junk | xargs rm # remove all what arch think is junk
Adding/Removing Files
$ tla add hw.c main.c
$ tla delete hw.c
$ mv hw.c hello.c
$ tla move hw.c hello.c
$ tla tree-lint # to see if all clean, tla won't import/ci from unclean directory
Import (Initial check in)
$ tla make-log # create log file and print its name
$ vim `tla make-log` # edit log in vim
$ tla import # copy working copy into archive
$ tla revisions hello-world--mainline--1.0 # prints base-0
$ tla revisions --summary --creator --date hello-world--mainline--1.0
$ tla log-revisions
$ tla logs hello-world--mainline--0.1 # prints base-0
$ tla logs --summary --creator --date hello-world--mainline--1.0
$ tla cat-log hello-world--mainline--1.0--base-0
Committing Changes
$ tla changes --diffs # or (in tla 1.3) just "tla diff"
$ tla make-log # create log, required
$ tla commit # do it, creates patch-1
$ tla commit -s "Summary" -L "Log Message" # commit with log auto generated
$ tla revisions --summary hello-world--mainline--1.0 # last revision info
$ tla logs --summary hello-world--mainline--1.0 # last log entry info
Checking Out
$ tla my-default-archive # check where is default archive is
$ tla whereis-archive user@aol.com--2006-example # display local/net path
$ tla categories # lists available project in default archive "hello-world"
$ tla branches hello-world # lists available branches of the project "*--mainline"
$ tla versions hello-world--mainline # lists available version of the branch "*--0.1"
$ tla revisions hello-world--mainline--0.1 # lists available revisions base-0 & patch-1
$ tla get hello-world--mainline--0.1 hello-world # check out most recent revision of into "hello-world" directory, or
$ tla get hello-world--mainline--0.1--base-0 hello-world # check out specific revision
$ ls # should list "hello-world"
Update (Replay)
$ tla undo # back off local changes
$ tla replay # get latest patches from repository
$ tla redo # reapply local changes
$ tla update # all of three steps above with one command.
Networked Archives
$ tla register-archive lord@emf.net--2003b
http://regexps.srparish.net/{archives}/lord@emf.net--2003b # HTTP, R/O
$ tla register-archive lord@regexps.com--2002
ftp://ftp.regexps.com/{archives}/lord@regexps.com--2002 # FTP, R/W
$ tla register-archive user@aol.com--2006
sftp://random.homeunix.org/home/jdoe/{archives}/2006-quickref # SFTP, R/W
$ tla my-default-archive [archive-name] # and the rest is just like described above
Mirroring (Locally) Network Archives
$ tla register-archive lord@emf.net--2003b-SOURCE $remote_location # once
$ tla make-archive --mirror-from lord@emf.net--2003b-SOURCE $local_location # once
$ tla archive-mirror lord@emf.net--2003b # repeat to pull latest changes
Mirroring (Remotely) Local Archives
$ tla make-archive --mirror mine@somewhere.com $remote_location # once
$ tla archive-mirror mine@somewhere.com # repeat to push latest changes
Vim Cookbook by Steve Oualline. Interesting reading. Lots of little tips.
P.S. Delves a bit into ranges supported in ex commands. I still cannot get myself to write entry on vim ranges.
The fix submitted before isn't reliable. That piece of magic in .vimrc does the job:
let loaded_matchparen = 1
It tells some plug-in/script/whatever that it has already did the job. If you put that in .vimrc - it would think that way always and would not load anymore. Nice.
P.S. The Tip was found here :help pi_paren.txt. It would be all really nice if computers had a special interface to read my mind - and tell me how the devels named particular feature. That way I will not need to waste weeks to find the corresponding help entry.
New in VIM7 is file type detection. To get info whether it is present/activated try that:
:filetype
and that to turn it off:
:filetype off
File types are made to allow bulk customization for particular file type. At moment it doesn't provide any advantages over plain :au - but probably more to come in future.
P.S. :filetype off must be at top of .vimrc - it tries to manage everything so many options changed before would be reset.
P.P.S. Relevant help pages/see also: :help filetype, :help 'filetype' and :help ftplugin.
Put that line into .gvimrc:
NoMatchParen
Seems like due to serious Q&A problem that shit creeped into release of VIM7.
:help hl-MatchParen for more info on how to wear down your eye in under 5 minutes with minimum of options set. [sarcasm off]
Edit1: seems like that feature is automatically enabled only for GUI vim, in other words NoMatchParen is accepted only in .gvimrc.
Edit2: The solution is not reliable. Proper fix!
