In the last week, I've learned a few more gvim commands to make me more productive. There are so many damned commands, I wonder if anyone actually knows all of them.
Anyway, the new ones I learned were the ">" and "<" keys to indent or unindent a block of highlighted code. I also learned that you can do code folding and unfolding with zf and zo, respectively. Not the prettiest, but cool.
I kind of like Vim's indenting, although I also find it useful to use perltidy as a pipe, to really clean things up properly.
Useful commands:
Actually, the commands beginning with '=' there are only in Vim 6.1 and higher. I have this in my ~/.vimrc to enable them:
" Attempt to load indenting rules if possible.
if v:version >= 601
filetype indent on
endif
This provides about 99% of my needs.
-Dom
Re:Indenting in Vim
petdance on 2002-08-23T15:14:04
Also, for those using vim, not gvim, shift-V starts a line block, and ctrl-V does a column block. I use it constantly.I also like to justify my (non-code) text fairly often, so I do plenty of
:!fmt on those blocks. Re:Indenting in Vim
Dom2 on 2002-08-23T15:29:48
I tend to use gqap rather than fmt these days. fmt is a little inflexible...
Of course, if I were a real fanatic, I'd be using DCONWAY's Text::AutoFormat.
-Dom
Re:Indenting in Vim
petdance on 2002-08-23T15:47:26
I tend to use gqap rather than fmt these days. fmt is a little inflexible...I didn't know about
:gqap. Thanks for the pointer. Of course, if I were a real fanatic, I'd be using DCONWAY's Text::AutoFormat.
Don't think I didn't consider it...
:-)
