My X Vim Tips

Intro

This document is useful for using Vim (neovim) and other tools.

1. Edit the current shell command in Vim

If you env variable $EDITOR is set to vim, you can use Ctrl-x Ctrl-e to edit in vim just typed command:

Example what you can put into your .bashrc:

export EDITOR=nvim
# Enable Ctrl-x-e to edit the command line
autoload -U edit-command-line

2. Rename a few files at a time using VIM

Download vimv script:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thameera/vimv/master/vimv > /usr/local/bin/vimv && \ 
  chmod +755 /usr/local/bin/vimv

Type in terminal vinv and pattern to rename files:

vimv *.txt

it will open vim like a window where you can rename files and apply.

P.S. you need the $EDITOR env variable to be set.

3. Jump to interesting elements in your default editor:

$ git jump diff

So assume you have such a diff:

diff --git foo.c foo.c
index a655540..5a59044 100644
--- foo.c
+++ foo.c
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 int main(void) {
-  printf("hello word!\n");
+  printf("hello world!\n");
 }

$ git jump diff

Will open an $EDITOR on foo.c:3.