[ILUG] some reasons why vim rocks...

[kevin lyda]

someone mentioned tab completion the other day in vim - and the C-d bit
for choices.  in that behaviour, vim follows most shells.  however vim
also offers tab completion in insert mode.

if you're typing ~/.moz you can then press C-xC-f to "tab out" the
filename.  there's a description of what you can do next at the bottom
of the screen - C-n for the next match is the one i use most.  once you
have the match you want just go back to typing as normal.

some other random features:

    you can have vim pull up a man page by pressing K over a word.  so
    if you edit this and press K over "fopen" it will bring up the fopen
    man page.  the one downside i've seen is that it doesn't let you
    specify a section.  i rarely want to see the man page for printf(1)
    for instance - man 3 printf is usually more useful.

    it's easy to dump the contents of a command into your buffer.  a
    quick way to stick a calendar into a mail is to enter !!cal in
    command mode like so:

                              May 2004
                        Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 
                                           1
                         2  3  4  5  6  7  8
                         9 10 11 12 13 14 15
                        16 17 18 19 20 21 22
                        23 24 25 26 27 28 29
                        30 31

    you can also filter a section of text.  again in command mode you
    can do !}fmt to format a paragraph.  the } is a movement command,
    you can replace that with any movement command: 5} or { or G for
    example.

kevin

-- 
kevin at ie.suberic.net  ~  "you're either with us or against us." --dubya
iraq: vietnam again?  ~  in that simplistic world-view progressives and
a new lbj selected -  ~  liberals are "us" while bush and bin laden are
"looney bush junior"  ~  "against us."
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