heh. at 6:15 in the morning, it blew my mind. it took a few seconds to register what was going on.
if anybody has any vim tips they'd like to share, i'd love to see a thread of people's favorite vim tricks. here's another one i learned just recently: 1 one 2 two 3 three 4 four 5 five 6 six 7 seven 8 eight 9 nine use line highlighting (shift v) and highlight lines 4, 5, and 6. type "zf". you've now "folded" lines 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6: 1 one +-- 5 lines: 2---------------------------------------------------- 7 seven 8 eight 9 nine now use line highlighting to to highlight the first 4 lines. type "zf" you've now folded the first four line: +-- 8 lines: 1---------------------------------------------------- 9 nine place the cursor somewhere on the fold. type "zo" to unfold: 1 one +-- 5 lines: 2---------------------------------------------------- 7 seven 8 eight 9 nine place the cursor somewhere on the fold. type "zo" to unfold again: 1 one 2 two 3 three 4 four 5 five 6 six 7 seven 8 eight 9 nine really great for programming. one of the uses is when i'm editing a function and need to see another function that's way down in the source file. i can bring them "close together" by folding. previously, i either moved the functions using block cut and copy (ick) or by using vim's marks (better, but still ick). zf: fold the highlighted selection. it can take movement commands too, like "zf}" to fold the next paragraph. zo: open a fold. the cursor must be on top of the proper fold. zc: refold the last fold. what would be nice is if we could have "named folds", like named registers or named marks. wouldn't mind hearing other people's tips.... :-) pete On Fri 02 Apr 04, 4:43 AM, Issac Trotts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 03:18:36AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > it turns out that vim knows what an URL is, and will download the file > > pointed to by that URL. another vim coolity. > > Thanks for the tip! > > -- > Issac Trotts > http://mallorn.ucdavis.edu/~ijtrotts > (w) 530-757-8789 > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
