Visual select the text, then U for uppercase or u for lowercase. To swap all casing in a visual selection, press ~ (tilde). Without using a visual selection, gU<motion> will make the characters in motion uppercase, or use gu<motion> for lowercase. For more of these, see Section 3 in Vim’s change.txt help file.
By closing the console without exiting Vim first, the Vim process got killed, and Vim didn’t have a chance to properly shut down. Vim uses swap files to store the last unpersisted changes to a buffer to avoid data loss in case of a crash; you can read the whole story at :help E325. In your case, as … Read more
remap is an option that makes mappings work recursively. By default it is on and I’d recommend you leave it that way. The rest are mapping commands, described below: :map and :noremap are recursive and non-recursive versions of the various mapping commands. For example, if we run: Then: j will be mapped to gg. Q will also be mapped to gg, because j will be expanded for the recursive mapping. W will be mapped to j (and … Read more
Try this, after editing your file, quit with this command: wq!. the ! means force the process, and when you combine it with wq that means force to save and quit.
To turn off highlighting until the next search: Or turn off highlighting completely: Or, to toggle it:
I have a Ruby code file open in vi, there are lines commented out with #: Say I want to uncomment all the lines in the first def … end section. What’s an efficient way to do that in Vim? In general, I’m looking for an easy and fluid way to comment and uncomment lines. … Read more
When the separator character (/ in your case) between {pattern} and {string} is contained in one of those, it must be escaped with a \. A trick to avoid that is to use a different separator character, e.g. #: PS: If it should do what I think it should do, your pattern is wrong; see … Read more
You can use the \c escape sequence anywhere in the pattern. For example: /\ccopyright or /copyright\c or even /copyri\cght To do the inverse (case sensitive matching), use \C (capital C) instead
Personally I can’t convince myself to litter my code with the markers. I’ve become pretty used to (and efficient) at using indent-folding. Together with my mapping of space bar (see below) to open/close folds and the zR and zM commands, I’m right at home. Perfect for Python!
MacVim is just Vim. Anything you are used to do in Vim will work exactly the same way in MacVim. MacVim is more integrated in the whole OS than Vim in the Terminal or even GVim in Linux, it follows a lot of Mac OS X’s conventions. If you work mainly with GUI apps (YummyFTP … Read more