Vim Recipes¶

One-liners and other useful tricks for Vim.

Table of Contents¶

## Installing .vba / vimball plugins Open the file in vim and execute

:source %

This will move all of the plugins to their respective directory.

A good way of managing file specific settings is to use the filetype plugin: in short, add

filetype plugin on

to your .vimrc file. Then, configure each filetype’s settings in ~/.vim/ftplugin/. For example, a configuration for UNIX Makefiles

" ~/.vim/ftplugin/make.vim
set ts=8
set sw=8
set noexpandtab

More information in the Vim Fandom.

We can turn all words uppercase using the search-and-replace regex:

%s/\<./\u&/g

Here

\< matches the start of a word
\u is the Vim uppercase modifier, for the character in the substituted string (i.e. &, the LHS)

Useful overview is provided on Vimregex.