Comments on: Vim Intermediate Tutorial Videos

By: Derek Wyatt

Derek Wyatt — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:34:41 +0000

I'm not crazy; my mother had me tested. I do use macvim. The only way to use gvim on the mac is to use X11, and I'm not doing that :) As for searching files, check out ":help grep". I tend to do something like ":vimgrep /pattern/ **/*" which will do a recursive search for /pattern/ in the current directory (and all subdirs). You can then bring up the list of matches using ":cwin". You might also think about using the ":FufQuickfix" command from the FuzzyFinder plugin. As for sorting by occurrence... that I don't know.

By: nach

nach — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:48:02 +0000

Hi Derek,
You seem very crazy but your videos are awesome. Thanks.
I wanted to ask you if there is a reason why you don’t use macvim and use gvim instead.
I am now convinced to swicth to vimfrom netbeans thanks to your videos. But I am struggling with something that I used to do very good in netbeans. Searching occurences in all the files in a folder(and subfolders), is there a way to do this and get the nice results maybe sorted by file/occurence ?

By: Derek Wyatt

Derek Wyatt — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:26:00 +0000

Sounds like work for a shell script:

#!/bin/bash
cat - > /tmp/t.$$
fname=$(head -1 /tmp/t.$$ | awk '{print $1}')
mv /tmp/t.$$ $fname
gvim --remote-silent $fname

That's gonna need a fair bit of tweaking but it'll get you started.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:37:15 +0000

Great videos Derek!

I want to have macvim read from stdin with the – flag (i.e. mvim -) but also send it to the vim server via –remote-silent. However, it seems like the remote flags require files. I’d love for something like ‘echo test | mvim –remote-silent -’ to send a buffer with the word “test” to my macvim window and buffer list that’s already open. Do you have suggestions on how to do this?

By: MightyUhu

MightyUhu — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:42:46 +0000

Haha nice i like the World War 3-Part :)

By: Cliff

Cliff — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:12:42 +0000

Had been battling with trying to get –remote-silent working until I did :version and discovered that all of my installs are -clientserver… Why is this not a standard install? Will install it locally. But, I need to install it on a shared hosting server that I don’t control. I wish this were installable as a plugin.

By: Derek Wyatt

Derek Wyatt — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:18:26 +0000

You can run :version to see if it’s got +clientserver. As for what you can do with it, the ‘:help clientserver’ should really tell you everything you need to know.

By: Rylie

Rylie — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:03:02 +0000

Hi again, Derek. Just finished watching your “One Vim… Just One” video. This whole notion of a clientserver Vim sounds wicked cool, but I’m still trying to wrap my head around how it actually works and how to use it correctly. The help page says: “When compiled with the |+clientserver| option, Vim can act as a command server.” I use MacVim. My first question is- how can you tell if your vim binary was compiled with the +clientserver option (or any other option, like python, for that matter)? Second question- how do you invoke Vim as a command server as opposed to a client? I mean, is there a different command line incantation for invoking Vim as a server vs. invoking it as a client (gvim –remote-silent)?

By: Derek Wyatt

Derek Wyatt — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:23:25 +0000

See :help ‘formatoptions’

Specifically, I set formatoptions=crq and textwidth=80

Now, I don’t wrap code at 120, instead I use a warning marker to let me know when I go over the limit. You can get this easier with Vim 7.3 by using cursorcolumn (see :help ‘cursorcolumn’) but I do it with a syntax highlight. You can check my C++ vimrc settings to get the gist of that.

By: Rylie

Rylie — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:34:05 +0000

In your “Insert Mode” video @ time 3:59, you mention that you have your text width for comments set to 80 and your text width for code set to 140. Um, how do you do that? I mean, there’s only one textwidth property- how do you distinguish comments textwidth from code textwidth in order to set one to 80 and the other to 140? Thanks!