There were plenty of vim showoff there on the talk, but one of the neat tricks caught my eye, and today I have used it for the first time, so here it is for you all to discover and hopefully for me to remember:
Vim Macro's Surgery:
Macros are one of Vim's most famous and least used (by beginners) features. As you progress along the path of Vi/m you start using them more often to avoid repetitive chores and menial tasks.So far so good, but until now, if I was making a macro and got wrog, I had to start over and record a new one, Ben showed us better:
- Record a Macro into the 'a' register:
qa<...commands...>q - Paste it:
"ap - Correct:
<...macro editing...> - Yank it again:
0"ay$ - Use it:
@a - Or use it 42 times
42@a
On a side note, what I was doing today was edit teh configuration for a new pluging I saw at vim.org. It is called CtrlP ang gets right everything control-t and Fuffile got wrong, so I recomend you to give it a try. You might need to tweak uo the highlights, depending on your colorscheme, so I leave the relevant doc reference here for your convenience:
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CUSTOMIZATION *ctrlp-customization*
Highlighting:~
* For the CtrlP buffer:
CtrlPNoEntries : the message when no match is found (Error)
CtrlPMatch : the matched pattern (Identifier)
CtrlPLinePre : the line prefix '>' in the match window
CtrlPPrtBase : the prompt’s base (Comment)
CtrlPPrtText : the prompt’s text (|hl-Normal|)
CtrlPPrtCursor : the prompt’s cursor when moving over the text (Constant)
* In extensions:
CtrlPTabExtra : the part of each line that’s not matched against (Comment)
CtrlPBufName : the buffer name an entry belongs to (|hl-Directory|)
CtrlPTagKind : the kind of the tag in buffer-tag mode (|hl-Title|)
CtrlPqfLineCol : the line and column numbers in quickfix mode (Comment)
CtrlPUndoT : the elapsed time in undo mode (|hl-Directory|)
CtrlPUndoBr : the square brackets [] in undo mode (Comment)
CtrlPUndoNr : the undo number inside [] in undo mode (String)
CtrlPUndoSv : the point where the file was saved (Comment)
CtrlPUndoPo : the current position in the undo tree (|hl-Title|)
CtrlPBookmark : the name of the bookmark (Identifier)
Statuslines:~
* Highlight groups:
CtrlPMode1 : 'prt' or 'win', also for 'regex' (Character)
CtrlPMode2 : 'file' or 'path', also for the local working dir (|hl-LineNr|)
CtrlPStats : the scanning status (Function)
For rebuilding the statuslines, see |g:ctrlp_status_func|.
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