Text Editor Evaluation
What is the most important shortcuts?
File mangement
- Create New File
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C-x C-f <new> - V:
:tabedit- open in tab
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- Open File
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C-x C-f <file> - V:
:tabedit fileor use NerdTree
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- To File (TextMate specific)
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... - V:
C-p- The Silver Searcher
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- Open File Browser
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... - V:
:Te(open file in new tab) orC-n(NerdTree)
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- Save File
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C-x C-s - V:
:w
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- Close Buffer (Close Editor if last buffer)
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C-x C-c - V:
:q
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Moving Around
- Move to Top
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M-< - V:
gg
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- Move to Bottom
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M-> - V:
G
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- Move Char (Back/Forward)
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Lt/Rt - V:
Lt/Rt or h/l
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- Move Word (Back/Forward)
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M-b/M-f - V:
b/w
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- Move Row (Up/Down)
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Up/Dn - V:
Up/Dn or j/k
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- Move Section (Back/Forward)
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M-{/M-} - V:
{/}orC-Up/Dn
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- Move Screen (Back/Forward)
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M-v/C-v - V:
...
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- Move to End of Line (Back/Forward)
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C-a C-e - V:
0/$ or 0/9
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- Move to Symbol (TextMate specific)
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... - V:
...
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Selection
- Select + Movement
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... - V:
v (select)
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- Column Select + Movement
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... - V:
C-v
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Collapse
- Collapse Section
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... - V:
...
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- Expand Section
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... - V:
...
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Copy and Paste
- Copy
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M-w - V:
y
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- Cut
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C-w - V:
d
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- Cut Line(s)
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C-k - V:
dd
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- Paste (Cut or Copied)
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C-y - V:
p
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Completion
- Complete Command
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... - V:
...
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- Show Possible Commands
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... - V:
...
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Undo
- Undo
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C-x u - V:
u
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- Redo
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C-x u - V:
U
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- Abort command (vi/emacs specific)
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C-g - V:
Esc
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Search and Replace
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Search in File (Options: Replace, Regexp, Direction, All)
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C-s (normal), C-M-s (regexp), M-p (prev), M-n (next), RET (abort) - V:
:%s/foo/bar/gci- global, confirm and ignore case
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Search in Project (Options: Replace, Regexp, Direction, All)
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... - V:
...
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Formatting
- Intendent Selection (Back/Forward)
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... - V:
...
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- Toggle Comment on Selection
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... - V:
C-v Up/Dn I # Esci.e. column select, multi row insert, comment char and escape.
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Buffer
- Switch Buffer (Back/Forward)
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C-x 2 (split horizontally), C-x 3 (split vertically), C-x o (switch buffer), C-x 1 (close split) - V:
...
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Help
- Open Help
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C-h, C-x 1 (close help) - V:
help topic
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Vim tricks
Color schemes: Vibrant Inc, Vivid Chalk
Use Caps Lock as Escape
Make the remapping of keys in ~/.Xmodmap
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Escape
And then call this file from ~/.xinitrc
if [ -f ~/.Xmodmap ]; then
xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
fi
References
Vim
- solarized - color scheme
- Vim Color Scheme Test
- Kevin's Vim Tips and Tricks
- Vim Surround
- Fuzzy File Finder, cmd-T
- Ways to avoid ESC key
- Ultimate .vimrc
- åäö with xmodmap
- NerdTree - works with tabsabout](http://www.catonmat.net/blog/vim-plugins-surround-vim/)
- My VIM cheat sheet
- VIM introduction and tutorial
- VIM Command Ref
- 25 Vim Tutorials
- VIM tips for rails
- VIM QRef
- TextMate to VIM training wheels
- Vi complete key binding list
- molokai color scheme
- taglist
- vimgrep and cousins
- autotag, Browsing with tagsd
- vim-endwize
- A Starting Guide to VIM from Textmate
- Editors
- GMate
- Scribes
- RedCar
- Sublime Text - Developed by a Google Engineer, cross platform.
- Vim Ref Card
- ScrotWM - Tiling Window Manager
- Vim Tips - Vim Poster
- A Modern Vim Config with Pathogen
- ACME Editor - Editor/IDE developed by Rob Pike.
- HappyEdit - An editor in the Browser supporing vim editing
- Xi Editor - Editor written in Rust
- Yi Editor - Compiler for Haskell written in Haskell
- Howl - Fast and lightweight editor written in Lua