Vim🔗
General🔗
" enter current millenium
set nocompatible
" enable syntax and plugins (for netrw)
syntax enable
filetype plugin on
Finding Files🔗
" search down into subfolders
" provides tab-completion for all file-related tasks
set path+=**
" ignore different file types
set wildignore+=*.aux,*.log,*.out,*.pdf,*.o
" ignore a specific folder
set wildignore+=**/node_modules/**
" give suffixes a low priority (list at end)
set suffixes+=.pdf
" display all matching files when we tab complete
set wildmenu
" Hit tab to :find by partial match
" Use * to make it fuzzy
" :b lets you autocomplete any open buffer
Autocomplete🔗
More shortcuts can be found in |ins-completion|
" ^x^n - for just this file
" ^x^f - for filenames
" ^x^] - for tags only
" ^n - for anything by the 'complete' option
" move than with ^n and ^p in the suggestion list
Spell Checking and Word Completion🔗
" Spell-check language
set spelllang=en_us
" Automatically set by plugin vim-markdown
"" Define new filetype markdown
"autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.md set filetype=markdown
" Spell-check Markdown files
autocmd FileType markdown setlocal spell
" Spell-check Git messages
autocmd FileType gitcommit setlocal spell
" Set spellfile to location that is guaranteed to exist,
" can be symlinked to Dropbox or kept in Git
" and managed outside of thoughtbot/dotfiles using rcm.
set spellfile=$HOME/.vim/spell-en.utf-8.add
" Autocomplete with dictionary words when spell check is on
set complete+=kspell
File Browsing🔗
" tweaks for browsing
let g:netrw_banner=0 " disable annoying banner
let g:netrw_browse_split=4 " open in prior window
let g:netrw_altv=1 " open splits to the right
let g:netrw_liststyle=3 " tree view
let g:netrw_list_hide=netrw_gitignore#Hide()
let g:netrw_list_hide.=',\(^\|\s\s\)\zs\.\S\+'
" :edit a folder to open a file browser
" <CR>/v/t to open in an h-split/v-split/tab
" check |netrw-browse-maps| for more mappings
Snippets🔗
" read an empty HTML template and move cursor to title
nnoremap ,html :-1read $HOME/.vim/.skeleton.html<CR>3jwf>a
Help🔗
:help ^n " help about ctrl-n in normal mode
:help i_^n " help about ctrl-n in insert mode
:help c_^n " help about ctrl-n in command mode
" grep in help pages
:helpgrep xxx