I have vim set-up to use spaces in place of tabs. Sometimes you need to use an actual tab e.g. editing a Makefile. Now whilst it's possible to change settings so that tabs are used for specific files, a quick tip to remember is to simply type in insert…
I decided the other evening that I should refresh my vim plugins to pick up any updates that have landed since the last time I updated them. The downside is that every time I want to do this, I have the pain of manually re-installing the updated files into the…
This .vimrc snippet highlights lines when you exceed 77 columns - this is especially useful if you are trying to adhere to PEP8 with Python development. The if statement makes this work for older vims as well as more recent versions which is handy if you put your .vimrc on…
If you've found a fancy colorscheme for vim and you want to try it out, once you've saved the colorscheme file to ~/.vim/colors you can enable the theme with the following in a vim session's command mode: :colorscheme fruity If you want the colorscheme to be permanent then you…
Occasionally you'll log into a remote server and find that the cursor keys echo characters when you are in insert mode using vim. Here's how to resolve it by modifying your vimrc configuration file: vim ~/.vimrc i (Enter insert mode) set t_ku= (now type Ctrl-V and press cursor up)…