Speed up your already speedy Vim development
Add these to your vimrc to add to your already epic productivity!
Instead of hitting <Esc> :w <Enter> to save when in insert mode, why not map jj to do it for you? I find ZZ awkward to type whereas jj is lightning fast!
noremap jj <Esc>:w<CR>As an added bonus to doing this, you can disable Vims auto-save feature if you haven't already as you'll be saving your work pretty much every time you exit insert mode. Nice!
If you're a PHP developer, most lines will end with ;, why not remap ;; to append a ; to the end of the line, save the file and exit insert mode?
inoremap ;; <End>;<Esc>:w<CR>Tired of wasting split seconds hitting shift every time you want to enter a command with :? Swap your ; and : around - takes about a day to get used to, but makes every command super fast.
nnoremap ; :
nnoremap : ;Changing focus of split panes can be a bit of a pain (<C-w>[direction]), let's drop the middle man!
noremap <C-j> <C-w>j
noremap <C-k> <C-w>k
noremap <C-l> <C-w>l
noremap <C-h> <C-w>hAnd here's a bonus for Python developers - remove trailing space on file save for pep8-ified goodness:
autocmd BufWritePre *.py :%s/\s\+$//eWritten by Chris McKinnel
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Some of these, and much more are here: http://amix.dk/vim/vimrc.html
Yea his stuff is cool thats what I based most of my early vim days on
nnoremap ; :
nnoremap : ;
That's nice, but you get used to it so fast that you realize that you mistype in non-vim environment. I would recommend putting
xmodmap -e "keycode 47 = colon semicolon"
to your .xinitrc to remap : and ; globally
xmodmap -e "keycode 47 = colon semicolon Cyrillic_ZHE"
is an advanced version that works if you have another layout you are switching to (cyrillic in this example)
And there are much more to dig https://github.com/search?q=vimrc
Ohhh, that's a great idea to search github for vimrc, pirj!
oryband, thanks for the comment. I didn't even know that semi-colon was mapped to anything in normal mode, thanks for the info.
How often do you use ; normally? I don't find myself using f or t very much, and when I do use them I usually prefix with a c and never need to jump to the next one on the same line.
for this one
nnoremap ; :
nnoremap : ;
i map my <space>, so you dont need to screw up your normal keymap
and another tip if you doing php ->
inoremap <C-l> ->
unless you remap your hjkl to cursor movement in input mode, which is also a nice feature, i have an ft detetion on this one, php is ->, js is var, and txt file is movement.
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