Hidden features of your Vim plugins

We have a lot of Vim plugins from which we usually use only their main functionality. But if you read through their documentation, you may uncover secret gems that might be useful.

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1. Hidden features of
   your Vim plugins
   janko-m @jankomarohnic
   

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2. vim-commentary
   

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4. gc
   

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6. gcu
   

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8. vim-eunuch
   

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9. • :Remove
   • deletes the file
   • deletes the buffer
   • :Move
   • moves the file
   • “moves” the buffer
   • :Mkdir
   • creates current’s buffer directory
   

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10. • :SudoEdit

    :SudoWrite
    • “handy when you forgot to use sudo to invoke Vim”
    

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11. vim-fugitive
    

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12. • “A Git wrapper so awesome it should be illegal”
    • :Gstatus
    • opens an interactive `git status`window
    • :Glog
    • loads commit messages into quickfix
    • :Gblame
    • opens an interactive `git blame` window
    

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13. • :Gmerge
    • without arguments loads conflicted files into a
    quickfix
    

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14. vim-unimpaired
    

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15. • Very intuitive mappings for common actions
    • List traversal
    • [q – :cnext

    ]q – :cprevious
    • Quickfix, Buffer, Location, Tag list
    • [n – next conflict marker

    ]n – previous conflict marker
    • Option toggling
    • [ow ]ow – toggle ‘wrap’
    • [os ]os – toggle ‘spell’
    • [or ]or – toggle ‘relativenumber’
    

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16. • [x – XML (HTML) encode

    ]x – XML (HTML) decode
    • [u – URL encode

    ]u – URL decode
    • [y – C String encode

    ]y – C String decode
    

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18. [x
    

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22. [u
    

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24. vim-surround
    

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25. • Surrounds text with delimiters
    • “text”

    ‘text’

    (text)

    {text}

    [text]

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    • Create/change/delete “surroundings”
    • works with Vim’s “text objects”
    • Intuitive mappings
    • ysiw” = you surround inner word with “
    • ds” = delete surrounding “
    • csip[{ = change surrounding of inner paragraph from [ to {
    

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28. Shift-S + t
    

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31. vim-projectionist
    

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32. • Connection between files
    • Alternate (:A)
    • app/models/user.rb ⟷ spec/models/user_spec.rb
    • Related (:R)
    • app/models/user.rb ⟷ db/schema.rb
    • Assign compilers
    • :make → rspec|cucumber|bundle
    

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33. :Econtroller home
    

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34. :Emodel user
    

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35. :Eservice register_user
    

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37. :Econtroller home
    

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38. Read documentation
    It’s usually really awesome in Vim world
    

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