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I will continue my previous post with another few Vim tips I recently found in my quest to improve my Vim experience!

1) For those of you annoyed by the auto-comment feature of Vim (the feature that automatically inserts a comment leader in front of a line after your previous line was also commented), just enter this:

:set fo-=r

2) If you are like me and like to use Ctrl+E and Ctrl+A in your command line and want to also use this in Vim, here is a simple way to map end of line and beginning of line to Ctrl+E and Ctrl+A in Vim:

” map CTRL-E to end-of-line (insert mode)
imap $i
” map CTRL-A to beginning-of-line (insert mode)
imap 0i
” map CTRL-E to end-of-line (normal mode)
nmap $
” map CTRL-A to beginning-of-line (normal mode)
nmap 0

3) This is for the lazy ones or the ones that just can not get adjusted to Vim’s shortcuts, here is a trick to map Ctrl+C to copy to clipboard, Ctrl+V to paste and Ctrl+X to cut:

” map CTRL-C to copy (visual mode)
vmap y
” map CTRL-X to cut (visual mode)
vmap x
” map CTRL-V to paste (insert mode)
imap P

Add them to your .vimrc and that’s it!

Posted on Monday, November 2nd, 2009 at 4:49 pm in Tips and Tricks | rss feed for comments| Leave a response, or trackback