VIM

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Editing

Shortcuts

•  :x - Jump to line 'x' in the file
• yxy or xyy - Copy x lines to clipboard
• dxd or xdd - Cut x lines to clipboard

• Substitution

    :%s/'x'/'y'/gc             - Replace 'x' with 'y' on all lines (%) 
    :15,25s/hello/goodbye/g    - Replace 'x' with 'y' from between lines 15 and 25 inclusive
    :78s/hello/goodbye/g       - Replace 'x' with 'y' only on line 78

    Options for substitution
    g        Global -- Change every occurrence on a line, not just the first
    c        Confirm -- Ask before making each change

Configuration

Configuration file to have efficient editing.

set nocompatible      " Disables troublesome VI compatibilty
set title             " Sets the title bar to give the filename and path
set ruler             " Enables the location information in bottom right corner
set nowrap            " Disables text wrapping
set ignorecase        " Searches ignore case
set wildmenu          " Menu for autocomplete of filenames
set number            " Prints line numbers on left of screen

Color Scheme

Shortcuts

• Change the current colorscheme

:colorscheme schemename

Configuration

• This is a color scheme which I created for myself, but feel free to use it; works best on black backgrounds. ian.vim -- Screenshot -- To install, place the file in your ~/.vim/colors/ directory, (~/.vim/colors/ian.vim), and add the following line to your .vimrc or .gvimrc file

colorscheme ian

• It is possible to set any file to highlight the syntax correctly for any filetype needed, by associating the filetype with a vim syntax file.

• For Ruby Verilog, add the following line to your ~/.vimrc file. This will enable Verilog syntax highlighting in Ruby Verilog files.

au BufNewFile,BufRead *.rv set ft=verilog

• For CUDA Files, you need to do one extra step. You will need to save this CUDA syntax file to your ~/.vim/syntax/ directory, and then add the following two lines to the ~/.vimrc file.

au BufNewFile,BufRead *.cu set ft=cu
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.cuh set ft=cu