Recap Vimfest 2015

SvenG

@guckes

• i3 window manager
• vim book from steve oualline
• buch von kurt pfeifle über PDFs
• polyglot PDF+WAV
• Sven's Minimal Vim Config
• Starter File für Tags
• notes/signatures with agrep
• mutt workshop setup file

Tim Quellmalz:

@tqmz

Tab & Trailing Whitespace

" shortcuts for replacing tabs / removing trailing whitespace
nmap <silent> <LocalLeader>ct :%s/\t/    /g<CR>:%s/\s\+$//g<CR>
nmap <silent> <LocalLeader>cs :%s/\s\+$//g<CR>

" alternative
:help retab
        

Firefox

start multiple profiles (instances) at the same time (open profiles of current topics only):

• firefox -no-remote -P %u

• iceweasel -no-remote -P %u

• FireTitle: to name windows (use Ctrl-; to name session)

• Tab-Groups + TabGroup Menu: Enable it inside preferences and drop it in the address line

• Tile Tabs: Split Tab on one screen

• Restclient: Restclient

• RSS Icon: rss icon the urlbar

Jabber

• prosody is a good Jabber-Server

Chrome

• PostMan: Restclient

Zsh

• zsh 5.0.8 ... vim-like textobjects in vi mode
• opp.zsh
• Adding Vi To Your Zsh

bindkey -v
        

• oh-my-zsh plugin pj: pass a blog, quickly find folders

Blogging

• static site generators, like jekyll
• flat filebased cms, like KirbyCMS

Markdown

• Markdown-Cheatsheet

Vim Sessions

project-wise sessions path/to/project/.vimrc:

" restore actions (tab selection, window resizing etc.)
source .vimsession
" restore buffers ... and history of commands, searches, buffers etc.
exec "set viminfo=%,'50,<1000,s100,:50,@10,/50,n" . g:proj_path . ".viminfo"
" map F10 to save & exit
exec   "nmap <silent> <F10> :mksession! " . g:proj_path .   ".vimsession<CR>:wviminfo! " . g:proj_path .   ".viminfo<CR>:qa!<CR>"
        

Vim Colors

Cursor "Fadenkreuz"
set cursorcolumn                       " highlight the current column – disturbs autocompletetion background!
set cursorline                         " highlight current line
        

BufExplorer

• BufExplorer: Plugin for Buffers

Xmodmap

~/.Xmodmap:

! map Capslock as additional Ctrl key
clear   Lock
clear   Control
keycode 66 = Control_L
add     Control = Control_L Control_R
        

• xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
• xmodmap -pke for a list of all current
• map [ and ] to other keys on German keyboard (?)

Tags

• use multiple tag files:

set tags=./tags;/,tags;/
        

Nerdtree

" Map NERDTreeToggle to convenient key
nmap <leader>n :NERDTreeToggle<cr>

" Set local mapleader
let mapleader = "_"

" a nice shortcut for ppl with french keyboard layout who don't write french
" often; use `r` (replace) to type it nonetheless
map! ç <Esc>
        

pandoc

pandoc

:autocmd FileType pdc noremap <C-M> :w!<CR>:!pandoc -s -f markdown -t latex % -o %.pdf<CR>
        

Daniel Hahler

@blueyed

• Use "Space" as leader (not for imap!):

let mapleader = ","
nmap <space> <Leader>
vmap <space> <Leader>
        

• Vim session management
• Rofi: A window switcher, run dialog and dmenu replacement
• vim-sensible
• cursorcross
• zsh-autoenv: project-based settings for your shell
• https://github.com/tpope/vim-projectionist
• vim-diminactive: dim inactive windows, w/ vader tests (tmux based)
• shuber/vim-promiscuous: #context #switch #branches
• embear/vim-localvimrc: #vimrc #base
• tpop/vim-abolish: #renaming #casevariants
  • Tim: see also repren
• Shougo/unite.vim: Unite and create user interfaces #launcher

Max

• yankstack: https://github.com/maxbrunsfeld/vim-yankstack
• See https://github.com/maxbrunsfeld/vim-yankstack#compatibility if you also use vim-sneak.
• Peek into register contents, e.g. from <C-r> in insert mode: https://github.com/junegunn/vim-peekaboo

Copy & Paste

• "+y into register clipboard/ctrl+v (+), yank (copy)
• "+p from register clipboard, paste
• "*y into register mouse middle click, yank
• "*p paste ...

set clipboard=unnamed
set clipboard=unnamedplus
vmap <c-c> "*y
        

Auto Complete (u.a. Ruby)

• ^n (ctrl+n) -> :h CTRL-N
• ctags http://ctags.sourceforge.net/

Matthias Günther

@wikimatze

Syntaxdetection

• vim-polyglot Loading language packs on demand - saves a lot of startup time.

Read the output of a Ex command and paste the output in the current

:r! (e.g. :r! ls)

Nice operating system

• http://www.voidlinux.eu/

Startuptime

Browser

• Firefox: VimFx
• Chromium: Vimium

wemux

http://martinbrochhaus.com/pair.html

Vim backups

if !isdirectory($HOME . '/.vim/backup')
  call mkdir($HOME . '/.vim/backup')
endif

set backupext=~                 " backup file extension
set backupdir=$HOME/.vim/backup " directory of backups
set backupcopy=yes              " keep attributes of the original file
set backup                      " save files after close
set writebackup                 " make a backup of the original file when writing
        

i3 beautification and setup

• http://blog.tunnelshade.in/2014/05/making-i3-beautiful.html
• https://tribaal.io/using-i3.html
• http://askubuntu.com/questions/598943/how-to-de-uglify-i3-wm

Richard

• adjust tmux status line
• tmux-vim-navigator
• vimux
• slime
• configure tmux-sessions with tmuxinator
• Richard's vimrc
• Goyo: WriteRoom, Distraction-free Writing
• shortcut for toggling status bar for tmux: bind h set-option -g status
• pandoc make under OSX, PDF-Reader: Skim)
• Space as mapleader
• git client tig

Other things

Desktop-Manager

• herbstluftwm
• awesomeWM
  • https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome
• i3 window manager
  • http://www.guckes.net/Setup/i3-config.2015-10-01

Vim: Writing

• Text Objects
• Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi.

Re-load vimrc when changing it:

au BufWritePost $MYVIMRC,~/.dotfiles/vimrc,$MYVIMRC.local nested :source $MYVIMRC