♡-w/-vim

love your vim♡ ! Notes & .vimrc from session on love with vim! Session notes avail at http://kesavan.info/books.pl. Search for love vim pdf

Demo

Installation - Gnu/Linux - Terminal mode

1. Copy this .vimrc to your $HOME on the GNU/Linux
2. mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload ~/.vim/tmp ~/.vim/undo-dir
3. cd ~/.vim/autoload
4. Install Git: sudo apt install git
5. wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim (Or) curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim
6. Open vim : vim - from terminal
7. Execute the command :PlugInstall from command mode to install all plugins
8. Restart vim & Enjoy :)

Installation - Windows - Graphical mode

1. Copy this .vimrc to your %userprofile% on the Windows [ex: C:\Users\einstein]
2. Install Git: winget install --id Git.Git -e --source winget
3. Goto vim's autoload folder and get the plug.vim as mentioned above. (or)
4. In PowerShell execute, iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim |ni $HOME/vimfiles/autoload/plug.vim -Force
5. Also create $HOME/.vim/tmp $HOME/.vim/undo-dir
6. Open gVim
7. Execute the command :PlugInstall from command mode to install all plugins
8. Restart gvim & Enjoy :)

Tips

• Refer tips installing plug.vim here
• Use a friendly mono font: Droid Sans Mono Nerd Font Complete or DejaVuSansMono NerdFontMono
• Have fzf, git pre installed & $PATH config done. Refer the .vimrc
• Also have alternative tools avail for enriched experience - Tabby on Windows

Commands

• For gaming : :VimGame...
• Rest - follow the exercise & notes from the above pdf

summary - basic

#	area	purpose/action	command	short-form	short-cut key combination
1	basic	display line numbers	:set number	:se nu
2	basic	display off numbers	:set nonumber	:se nonu

summary - windows

#	area	purpose/action	command	short-form	short-cut key comb
1	window	new window horiz	:new	-	CTRL-w n
2	window	new window vertical	:vnew	-	-
3	window	split window horiz	:split <file>	:sp <file>	CTRL-w s
4	window	split window vertical	:vsplit <file>	:vs <file>	CTRL-w v
5	window	close current window	:close	:clo	CTRL-w c
6	window	quit current window	:quit	:q	CTRL-w q
7	window	quit all window	:quitall	:qa
8	window	write & quit current window	:wquit	:wq	CTRL-w q
9	window	quit all window	:quitall	:wqa	CTRL-w q N

summary - buffers

#	area	purpose/action	command	short-form	short-cut key com
1	buffers	open next buffer	:bnext	:bn
2	buffers	open previous buffer	:bprevious	:bp
3	buffers	goto first/last buffer	:bfirst :blast	:bl :bf
4	buffers	open 5th buffer	:b5
5	buffers	open Nth buffer	:bN
6	buffers	*open buffer xyz.php	:b xy
7	buffers	^delete buffer - safer way	:bdelete	:bd
8	buffers	^wipe[out] buffer - dangerous way	:bwipeout :bwipe	:bw

* smart-case, open closest matching file into buffer
^ delete just unload buffer from buffer-list, but wipe will completely remove all settings, [book]marks related to the file

summary - session

#	area	purpose/action	command	short-form	short-cut key com
1	session	make a new session	:mksession <path>	:mks <path>
2	session	load the session	:source <path>	:so <path>

session commands will you help organize a project and keep project level settings

summary - clips/registers

#	area	purpose/action	mode	command	short-form	short-cut key com
1	registers	show register aka clipboard contents	normal	:registers	:reg	"
2	registers	yank (copy) into register named T	normal	" T y		" T y
3	registers	paste from register named T	normal	" T p		" T p