Vim for programmers

some usefull vim commands

I won’t try to demonstrate why Vim is an excellent editor. But here are some features useful when programming.

commands	description
gg=G	indent file
==	indent line
=a{	indent block
u	undo
r	redo
:	go line number
g	go end of file
:cwin	print error messages if some
:clist	print compiler messages
:cn	move next error
:cp	move previous error
:tag	go tag
]	go tag (for windows $)
w]	open new tab and go tag under cursor
T	go back from tag
gd	make search with current word under the cursor
m	put a mark name under the cursor
'	go the mark
:mak	do make
:mak clean all	do make clean all
:ls	show current buffer
:b[n]	go buffer number [n]
:sp	split window and open
w[hjkl]	move window to left, down, up or right
u	go half page up
d	go half page down
:diffsplit	diff current buffer &
:diffupdate	update diff buffers
:DirDiff	diff directory ( &) see DirDiff plugin
F11	run VimCommander - see VimCommander plugin
:grep bonjour %	search bonjour on current buffer (put results in error buffer)
:grepadd hello *.c	search hello in all *c file
:cwin	show error buffer
:cn	go next entry in the error buffer
q	start record
q	stop current record
@	repeat record
@@	repeat previous record
:he	go help for
zfap	create paragraphe fold
zc	close fold
zo	open fold
zm	make fold
zr	reduce fold
zi	z more or z reduce
:set foldmethod=indent	fold according to the file indentation
:set foldlevel=3	fold more than third indent
:set foldcolumn=4	show a margin with folding indications
:stag ou w ]	split window and go tag
:tselect /config_*	show all tag references that match config_* in error buffer
:vsplit functions	open buffer with the function list
:set ignorecase	casse independant search
:set smartcase	like ignorecase if the exression is lowercase
x	completion (insert mode)
o	completion (insert mode)
:tabe	open file in a new tab
:tabc	close current tab
:tab	run in a new tab
gt	go next tab
	go next tab
	go previous tab
:set makeprg=gmake	under windows, the Gnu Collection Compiler
:map :wa:make	shortcut (F9 == save all and 'make')
:map :wa:make clean all	shortcut (F10 == save all and 'make clean all')
:argdo %s///ge ""|""w	replace by in all buffers
:cs find s	show reference in source database
:cs reset	reset cscope database connexion
:cs show	show cscope database connexion

  # cscope -R
  leave : Ctrl-D
  launch vim
  :cs add cscope.out
  :cs kill 0
  :!cscope -R
  :cs add cscope.out
  :cs show

example that update cscope database