Hacking Vim 7.2 Table Of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Vim
Chapter 2: Personalizing Vim
Chapter 3: Better Navigation
Chapter 4: Production Boosters
Chapter 5: Advanced Formatting
Chapter 6: Basic Vim Scripting
Chapter 7: Extended Vim Scripting
Appendix A: Vim Can Do Everything
Appendix B: Vim Configuration Alternatives
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Vim
  • Getting Vim
  • vi, Vim, and friends
    • vi
    • STEVIE
    • Elvis
    • nvi
    • Vim
    • Vile
    • Compatibility
  • Vim is charityware
  • Common terminology
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Personalizing Vim
  • Where are the configuration files?
  • Changing the fonts
  • Changing color scheme
    • Personal highlighting
      • Example 1: Mark color characters after a certain column
      • Example 2: Mark tabs not used for indentation in code
      • Example 3: Preventing errors caused by IP addresses
  • A more informative status line
  • Toggle menu and toolbar
  • Adding your own menu and toolbar buttons
    • Adding a menu
    • Adding toolbar icons
  • Modifying tabs
  • Work area personalization
    • Adding a more visual cursor
    • Adding line numbers
    • Spell checking your language
    • Adding helpful tool tips
    • Using abbreviations
      • Example 1: Using abbreviations for quick address insertion
    • Modifying key bindings
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Better Navigation
  • Faster navigation in a file
    • Context-aware navigation
      • Moving around within a code file
      • Moving in a code file
    • Navigating long lines
  • Faster navigation in Vim help
    • Faster navigation in multiple buffers
    • Open referenced files faster
  • Search and you will find
    • Search the current file
      • Example 1: Find the next occurrence of a word
      • Example 2: Search for a word under the cursor
    • Search in multiple files
    • Search the help system
  • X marks the spot
    • Visible markers—using signs
    • Hidden markers—using marks
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: Production Boosters
  • Using templates
    • Using template files
    • Abbreviations as templates
    • Snippets with the snipMate script
  • Using tag lists
    • Easier taglist navigation
    • Other usages of taglists
  • Using autocompletion
    • Autocompletion with known words
    • Autocompletion using dictionary lookup
    • Omnicompletion
    • All-in-one completion
  • Using macro recording
  • Using sessions
    • Simple session usage
      • Satisfy your own session needs
    • Sessions as a project manager
  • Registers and undo branching
    • Using registers
      • The unnamed register
      • The small delete register
      • The numbered registers
      • The named registers
      • The read-only registers
      • The selection and drop registers
      • The black hole register
      • Search pattern register
      • The expression register
  • Using undo branching
  • Folding
    • Simple text file outlining
    • Using vimdiff to track the changes
    • Navigation in vimdiff
    • Using diff to track changes
  • Open files anywhere
    • Faster remote file editing
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Advanced Formatting
  • Formatting text
    • Putting text into paragraphs
    • Aligning text
    • Marking headlines
    • Creating lists
  • Formatting code
    • Autoindent
    • Smartindent
    • Cindent
    • Indentexpr
    • Fast code-block formatting
    • Auto format pasted code
  • Using external formatting tools
    • Indent
    • Berkeley Par
    • Tidy
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Basic Vim Scripting
  • Syntax-color schemes
    • Your first syntax-color file
  • Syntax regions
    • Color scheme and syntax coloring
  • Using scripts
    • Script types
    • Installing scripts
      • Uninstalling scripts
  • Script development
    • Script writing basics
      • Types
      • Variables
      • Conditions
      • Working with lists and dictionaries
      • Loops
      • Creating functions
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: Extended Vim Scripting
  • Script structure
    • Script header
    • Script-loaded check
    • Script configuration
    • Key mappings
    • Functions
    • Putting it all together
  • Scripting tips
    • Gvim or Vim?
    • Which operating system?
    • Which version of Vim?
    • Printing longer lines
  • Debugging Vim scripts
  • Distributing Vim scripts
    • Making Vimballs
  • Remember the documentation
  • Using external interpreters
    • Vim scripting in Perl
    • Vim scripting in Python
    • Vim scripting in Ruby
  • Summary

• Appendix A: Vim Can Do Everything
  • Vim games
    • Game of Life
    • Nibbles
    • Rubik's cube
    • Tic-Tac-Toe
    • Mines
    • Sokoban
    • Tetris
  • Programmers IDE
  • Mail program
  • Chat with Vim
  • Using Vim as a Twitter client

• Appendix B: Vim Configuration Alternatives
  • Tips for keeping your vimrc file clean
  • A vimrc setup system
  • Storing vimrc online

• Index