[link] Scripting the Vim editor, Part 3: Built-in lists

Scripting the Vim editor, Part 3: Built-in lists, part of Scripting the vim editor series over at IBM's dW.

Insightful read. Though I hope I would never need to script the VIM to such extent.

[link] Vim 401: Extending Vim and More

While I was procrastinating here, the Joe Brockmeier guy is already on fourth installment of his articles dedicated to learning Vim: Vim 401: Extending Vim and More.

Do not forget to check the links (provided in article) to the previous installments.

[link] Vim 101: A Beginner's Guide to Vim

Vim 101: A Beginner's Guide to Vim by Joe Brockmeier.

Bit too vi-ish IMO, yet as beginner's guide quite complete.

[link] vi Introduction

vi Introduction. Obviously by "vi" they mean "VIM".

[link] Vim Tutorial

Vim Tutorial - with videos!

Bit too vi-compatible to my tastes. Otherwise most bases are covered.

[humor] Vim vs. Emacs

Vim vs. Emacs

[link] Customizing vim and coloring the terminal in OpenSolaris 2009.06

dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/blog » Customizing vim and coloring the terminal in OpenSolaris 2009.06.

Hehehe. Somebody tries to make some use of Solaris.... Good Luck. Piece of advice though: upgrade to Linux, it's faster that way. Do not get me wrong... ... BUT WHAT THE F***?! This is year 2009 and Solaris still can't take care of colors?

P.S. BTW, Good Luck trying to use "TERM=xterm-color" though. Last I time I tried it on Solaris only to find that it is lacking something like half keyboard.

Really. Get over it, swallow your childish pride and get the Linux. It works.

[link] Speed-Typing in Vim With Maps and Abbreviations - Better Than a Clipboard

LinuxPlanet - Tips - Speed-Typing in Vim With Maps and Abbreviations - Better Than a Clipboard.

Some nice tips on how to use VIM's abbreviations to insert some dynamic (not static!) text like e.g. current date.

[link] LinuxPlanet - Tips - Turning on Unicode Support in Vim - Unicode in Vim

LinuxPlanet - Tips - Turning on Unicode Support in Vim - Unicode in Vim.

Though article is more about how to input all those fancy characters.

C++ vs. tags

One - at times very - annoying problem I had was that jumping to tag not very C++ friendly. Namely it doesn't consider ':' (colon) to be part of word under cursor. It finally bothered me to the point of reading documentation which promptly sent me to :help star where from I was sent to :help 'iskeyword'. In less than a minute I had a fix:

au BufReadPost *.cpp set isk+=:

'isk' is shorthand for 'iskeyword' and tells VIM what symbols should be considered to be part of (key)words. 'isk' is a list (as usually comma separated) of characters/character ranges and as with any other comma-separated lists, operators '+=' and '-=' do they job as they should.

That obviously has an impact on any VIM command which works with words - '*', '#', 'w', etc. Beware.