Vim Galore – Awesome Vim

URL: https://github.com/mhinz/vim-galore#readme Category: Themed Directories
Tags: editor, vim, developer-tools

Overview

Vim Galore is an extensive, curated compendium of Vim tips, tricks, explanations, and resources. It functions as a structured reference and learning guide for Vim users of all levels, covering everything from fundamentals to advanced usage, debugging, and workflow optimization.

Features

Intro & Fundamentals

• Explanation of what Vim is and its core concepts
• Discussion of the Vim philosophy and modal editing
• First steps for new Vim users
• Example minimal vimrc configuration
• How to determine what kind of Vim you are running (build, features, variants)
• Links and references to cheatsheets for quick lookup

Basics (Core Editing Concepts)

• Buffers, windows, tabs: structure of open files and views
• Active, loaded, listed, named buffers: buffer states and management
• Argument list: working with multiple files from the command line or within Vim
• Mappings: defining custom key mappings
• mapleader: leader key concept and usage for custom shortcuts
• Registers: yanks, deletes, and named registers
• Ranges: specifying line ranges for commands
• Marks: bookmarking positions in files
• Completion: built-in completion methods and usage
• Motions, operators, text objects: composable editing commands
• Autocmds: automatic commands triggered by events
• Changelist, jumplist: navigating through editing and jump history
• Undo tree: branching undo history and how to navigate it
• Quickfix and location lists: handling search results, compiler output, and diagnostics
• Macros: recording and replaying command sequences
• Colorschemes: configuring and switching color themes
• Folding: code and text folding methods
• Sessions: saving and restoring editing sessions
• Locality: concepts and practices for localized configuration and behavior

Usage & Workflow

• Getting help offline via Vim’s built-in :help
• Alternative offline help methods
• Getting help online: useful remote documentation sources
• Autocmds in practice with:
  • User-defined events
  • Nested autocommands
• Clipboard integration:
  • Clipboard usage on Windows and macOS
  • Clipboard usage on Linux, BSD, and similar systems
• Restore cursor position automatically when reopening files
• Temporary files management:
  • Backup files
  • Swap files
  • Undo files
  • viminfo files
  • Example configurations for handling these temporary files
• Editing remote files (e.g., via netrw or other methods)
• Managing plugins: strategies and tools for plugin management
• Block insert: visual block editing techniques
• Running external programs and filters from within Vim
• Cscope integration for code navigation
• MatchIt usage for improved matching of code constructs
• True color support: enabling and using 24-bit color in Vim

Tips & Enhancements

Practical, focused tips to refine everyday editing:

• Go to the other end of selected text quickly
• Saner behavior of n and N in search navigation
• Improved command-line history handling
• Saner CTRL-L behavior
• Disable audible and visual bells
• Quickly move the current line up or down
• Quickly add empty lines around text
• Quickly edit your macros
• Quickly jump between header and source files
• Quickly change font size in GUI versions of Vim
• Change cursor style by mode (normal/insert/etc.)
• Preserve selection when shifting text sideways
• Reload a file on saving under certain workflows
• Smarter cursorline behavior
• Faster keyword completion through configuration tweaks
• Cosmetic changes to colorschemes without fully rewriting them

Commands & Scripting

• :global and :vglobal: execute commands on all lines matching (or not matching) a pattern
• :normal and :execute: combining normal-mode commands with scripting for automation
• :redir and execute(): capturing command output programmatically

Debugging & Performance

• General debugging tips for Vim configuration and runtime issues
• Verbosity settings and techniques to gain insight into what Vim is doing
• Profiling startup time to optimize .vimrc and plugin load
• Profiling at runtime to identify slow operations or scripts

Pricing

Vim Galore is an open GitHub repository and reference resource; no pricing or paid plans are indicated.