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- Take advantage of the new features of open source vim 7.0
- Vim Tabs Are OKTabbed windows alone aren't as helpful in Vim, since you already have pretty good management of buffers and split windows. However, I do like the fact that each tab can have its own split windows, which effectively gives you multiple work views from the same instance. I...
- Tags: brianwisti@..., console, hardware, open source, tabs, vim, Vim Tabs
- Discussion threads 2006-10-03
- Vim (exe)
- Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is often called a 'programmer's editor', and so useful for programming that many consider it an entire IDE. It's not just for...
- Tags: Editor, Programmer, Vim, Development Tools, UNIX, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2006-04-14
- Learn these advanced vim features
- emacs equivalentnot to start a religious war, but to accomplish "folding" in emacs (where it is called "hide-show"):activate: alt-x hs-minor-modetoggle: shift + middle mouse buttonimplementation: hideshow.elfolding in both emacs & vim seems more difficult than it should be, considering how easy folding is in other graphical editors like visual studio...
- Tags: emac
- Discussion threads 2006-04-04
- Learn these advanced vim features
- Vincent Danen tells you about some handy vim features that will save you time when editing text. One extremely convenient feature of vim is its ability to fold text. With this feature, you can make parts of a text file disappear, without actually removing it. Think of...
- Tags: Vincent Danen, Linux, Web servers, OPEN SOURCE, fold, command mode, cursor, vim, Linux Tips Newsletter, Text, Internet, Operating Systems, Software
- Technical articles 2006-04-03
- Vi for programmers, part 2
- Misleading article and downloadI just downloaded the PDF and read the articles. Although the articles properly referred to Vim throughout, the titles of the articles and the PDF suggest that they are references or tutorials for standard vi, which they definitely are not. I feel that these should be labeled...
- Tags: Vim, vim
- Discussion threads 2005-03-23
- Vi for programmers, part 1
- If you're a developer working on a UNIX/Linux platform,you've already encountered vi. Vi users fall into one of two categories: thosewho hate it and continually curse its finger-twisting key combinations andhard-to-remember commands, and those who love the flexibility and power itoffers. For a long time, I was in the former...
- Tags: Scripting languages, Development tools, Programming languages, Operating systems, Guest Contributor, Vim
- Technical articles 2004-07-05
- Vi for programmers, part 2
- In part1 of this series, we introduced you to some of the power in ViM's featureset and the flexibility it offers developers on the UNIX platform. Continuingwith the theme of making ViM more programmer-friendly, this second part of theseries concludes with more tips and tricks to make vi a powerful...
- Tags: Construction, Guest Contributor, Vim, window, search string
- Technical articles 2004-07-06
Additional Resources
- Vimming With SQL*Plus
- The Vi tool, which is included in nearly every UNIX-like OS and runs on nearly 20 different platforms, is easily the world's most popular text editor, and Vim or Vi iMproved, its enhanced, extended clone, is the one of the most popular text editors among Linux sysadmins. Given the growing...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Editor, Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000, Open Source, Databases, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- White papers
- A Technical Overview of VMT's Architecture: Virtual Infrastructure Management
- Virtual Infrastructure Management VIM is the technical architecture pioneered by VMT to address the IT operations needs of small and midsize businesses. The goal of VIM is to actively monitor a company's IT infrastructure to detect not only system failures, but detect problems before they occur. The objective is simple...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Information Technology, Architecture, Virtual Management Technologies, Virtual Infrastructure Management, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-09-12
- delete CRLF?
- Does anyone know of any free software that can delete CRLF from an ASCII file?Thanks!use sed or within a editor use vimuse sed or within an editor use vim Poster rated this answer. ...
- Tags: CRLF, POSTER
- Q&A 2005-05-13
- Take advantage of the new features of open source vim 7.0
- In this tip, Vincent Danen tells you about the new features of open source text editor vim 7.0. A few months ago, the latest major version of vim, which has been in development for a few years, was released. The new vim 7.0 still retains the same...
- Tags: Linux, Vincent Danen, open source, Linux Tips Newsletter, TechRepublic Inc., File, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software
- Technical articles 2006-10-02
- DOS Carriage Return/Line Feed
- I am told that a DOS file that I am attempting to submit is missing the carriage return and line feeds. How can I verify they are missing and how can I insert them?There are two ways. But first make a copy of the file incase one of these...
- Tags: carriage return
- Q&A 2005-02-16
- Editing remote files securely with vim
- Vincent Danen demonstrates how to edit files remotely and securely using vim with SSH. Often, the life of a sysadmin consists of editing little configuration files here and there, and often on a remote system. Typically, a sysadmin will remotely log into the system, navigate to the...
- Tags: Vincent Danen, Linux, remote system, home directory, Linux Tips Newsletter, TechRepublic Inc., File, Operating Systems, Software
- Technical articles 2006-01-23
- Editing remote files securely with vim
- Works this also with a windows client?How do you get this working on a Windows client and a Linux server.I need to edit files on the Linux server but I'm mostly working on a windows client.if youhave vim and ssh client installed.probably easiest to use cywin or mingw to do...
- Tags: Editing, Linux, Linux server, mc_hendriks@..., networking, server, window, windows vim linux
- Discussion threads 2006-01-25
- Using vi key bindings in bash and zsh
- By default, most shells use emacs-style key bindings for command-line editing and modification. For users of vi or vim, however, you can instead configure shells to use vi key bindings instead. This is done by editing ~/.bashrc in the case of bash, or ~/.zshrc in zsh and adding: set...
- Tags: Shell, Vincent Danen
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Manipulate process priority with nice
- Modern operating systems are multi-user and multitasking, which means that multiple users and multiple tasks can be using the computer at any given time. Typically you'll have one person using a desktop system running any number of applications or many users using many applications on a server. ...
- Tags: Grep, Priority, Value, Renice, Linux, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Vincent Danen
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- Vimperator (xpi)
- Vimperator is a free browser add-on for Firefox, which makes it look and behave like the Vim text editor. It has similar key bindings, and you could call it a modal Web browser, as key bindings differ according to which mode you are in. This version is the first release...
- Tags: Web Browser, Martin Stubenschrott, Vimperator, Web Browsers, Internet
- Software downloads 2007-09-27
- Use vi to edit files in a UNIX environment
- text edit primerI thought it was a very good intro to vi. I printed it off as a primer for some of my users that just happen to need exactly that. glenVI user commentsI maintain some linux systems, and don't think I could live without vi. ...
- Tags: find, gvanlehn@..., SciTE, Unix
- Discussion threads 2004-10-15
- A better experience can be yours with 10 GNU/GPL programs you can't live without
- A better experience can be yours with 10 GNU/GPL programs you can't live withoutarticle rootOther open source applications?What is your favorite GNU Project application? [b]Which applications are we missing in this article/download?[/b]wellI would remove samba, as windows interoperability isn't something I need, or worry about.I would add kde, lestif,mwm, blackbox...
- Tags: program logic, software, open source, download, linux, unix, gpl, gnu, emac, Mark W. Kaelin, hardware
- Discussion threads 2005-07-13
- Configure vi for Java application development
- Most software developers encounter the vi editor at some point in their career—if not at college, on production UNIX machines when installing work they coded on their Windows desktop machines in full-blown IDEs. It's rare to find a developer except in the most Microsoft-beholden shops who doesn't have to fire...
- Tags: Programming languages, Ctags, Java application, Ryan Brase, Java
- Technical articles 2003-07-10
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