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…
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 [http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/] with Python development. The if statement makes this work for older vims as well as more recent versions which is…
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…
Occasionally you'll log into a remote server and find that the cursor keys echo characters when you are in insert mode using vim [http://www.vim.org/]. Here's how to resolve it by modifying your vimrc configuration file: 1. vim ~/.vimrc 2. i (Enter insert mode)…