vim tip-o-rama

[will trillich <will@serensoft.com>]

On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:01:11AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:27:19AM -0400, MaD dUCK (madduck@madduck.net) wrote:
> > also sprach mdevin (on Sat, 05 May 2001 09:20:15PM +1000):
> > > How do you stop this from happening?
> > 
> > actually, set noautoindent won't cut it if you have smartindent or
> > cindent set. however, vim has a feature:
> > 
> > :set paste
> > 
> > then paste your text, then
> > 
> > :set nopaste
> 
> Cool!  That I did not know.
> 
> ...now, what's a useful key to bind that to....

opportunity missed! the one tip i could have given to karsten,
and come off looking like i was knowledgeable, and it's all under
the bridge now... dang!

:}

hmm... maybe there's others you've not seen -- how about

	:opt

to change or view vim settings?

then there's modelines, where you can include some vim settings
INSIDE your source file:

	#!/usr/bin/perl
	# vim:ts=6 ft=html
	use strict;
	...

which you can learn about via

	:help modeline

how about that? hmm?  okay, i'm sure there's something... wait,
then there's

	gqip

to reformat any paragraph, INCLUDING correctly interpreting
quoted email chunks like

	> here you said
	> > someone else quoth
	> > > dontcha hate those poorly-wrapped lines from
	> > > forwarded
	> > > emails where the slob who forwards it doesn't
	> > > care
	> > > how stupid it makes her look?
	> >
	> > you betcha by golly, i sure
	> > do
	>
	> well okay then

edit this message and try 'gqip' there, you'll like it (a lot)...

ah. then say you're editing a perl script that's loaded with tops
of sql -- you can change the syntax highlighting to sql via

	:set ft=sql

or when you resume editing a message in mutt -- the filename of a
resumed message doesn't match the 'email' pattern vim looks for
so the syntax highlighting is gaflooey... you can fix it via

	:set ft=mail

didja know that?

hmm. i'm sure there's SOMETHING i could impart, waitaminit...

-- 
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #15 from Will Trillich <will@serensoft.com> 
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contributes a monthly sample, explaining line-by-line what his
code does, and why. (Look under "Programming with Perl" in the
archives.)

Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...