VI Improved Tips :: vimrc dissected

I have tried in the past to use fold, but found them to be cumbersome and unwieldy. Most problematic of all, was that the VIM doesn't sa...

Heise.de reports (German) that VIM has got a fork. The name of the new fork is Neovim . The site at the moment has only two things: link to...

Scouting web for what's possible with git aliases, I have found a cool trick on how to combine/chain calls to several tools when the pro...

A quick hack to highlight the locking calls in a C/C++ program: :syn match cTodo '\<\i*[lL]ock\i*\>' Reuses colors of the...

Occasionally, I end up writing a simple one-file prototype for the whatever future C++ thingy I'm doing at the moment. Occasionally, the...

Couple of useful tricks for the GVIM diff mode ( ~/.gvimrc ): - Equalize the diff file window sizes when resizing the GVIM window. That is...

A little trick with regular expressions (if backtracking is supported) on how to compare two strings which might include number. The trick ...

The VIM-specific regex below matches the word under cursor. (Pasting unmodified as it is in my vimrc to also match German letters.) /[a-zA...

Alternative 1: /The\S\+les\(Themistokles\)\@<! Alternative 2: /\(Themistokles\)\@!\(\<The\S\+les\>\) Both search for any wo...

Wrap a visual selection in an HTML tag. Pretty useful function. I have only slightly modified it to take the tag as parameter and insert ...