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Commands tagged vim

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vim -p file1 file2 ...
2009-02-27 16:43:59
User: haivu
Functions: vim
Tags: vim
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VIM version 7: edit in tabs

Edit the files, each in a separate tab. use gT and gt to move to the left- and right-tab, respectively. to add another tab while editing, type ':tabe filename'

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:mksession! <filename>
2009-02-26 05:03:07
User: neutral
Tags: vim
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Save your sessions in vim to resume later

Creates a full snapshot of your current vim session, including tabs, open buffers, cursor positions, everything. Can be resumed with vim -S . Useful for those times when you HAVE to close vim, but you don't want to lose all your hard-opened buffers and windows. The ! will cause vim to overwrite the file if it already exists. It is not necessary, but useful if you frequently save to the same file (like session.vim or something).

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:split <file>
2009-02-25 23:41:22
User: raphink
Tags: Text Processing vim
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Load another file in vim

You can then switch from a file to another with ^W^W

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:r !command
2009-02-25 15:49:08
User: sud0er
Tags: vim
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Read the output of a command into the buffer in vim

This will append the output of "command" to whatever file you're currently editing in vim. Who else has good vim tricks? :)

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tail -1000 /some/file | vim -
2009-02-25 11:43:27
User: root
Functions: tail vim
Tags: Text Processing vim
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Pipe STDOUT to vim

The hyphen tells vim to open from STDOUT - saves having to create temporary files.

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