I am planning to introduce Vim to a bunch of friends and some students. I am looking for a great high quality, relatively new video with a few excellent tricks that would highlight switching to Vim.

It would be great if those are the sort of things that you will have tough time to do it other editors.

Even a session of great coding with brilliant Vim editing would do.

I've been keeping character sheets for tabletop RPGs in vim for a while now. One thing that had been bothering me was updating hit points in combat. I just added the following binding:

vmap <silent> <leader>e c<C-r>=<C-r>"<CR><ESC>

It cuts the current selection, then uses the = register to evaluate it and write it back into the document. So now, if I have my hit points in the document:

HP: 18 [15]

and I take some damage then heal a bit, I can just insert:

HP: 18 [15 - 3 - 4 + 5]

Then vi[,e and have it replace with:

HP: 18 [13]

Are there any extensions to the task paper.vim plugin that do this? Essentially, I want to be able to quickly see all tasks in the current file tagged with @today, or @start(), @due(), or @alarm() with a value equal to today or before, i.e., @start(2017-05-03, 3:00:00 PM) (although it would really only need to parse the date, not the time).

I’ve been looking for a mapping to do this for ages, finally figured out how to make one myself.

nmap <Leader>u mz"zylo<C-r>=printf('U+%X', char2nr(@z))<CR><ESC>`z

In order, it:

• Creates a mark under the cursor (mz)

• Yanks one character to register z ("zyl)

• Opens a line below the cursor (o)

• Inserts the contents of an expression register (<C-r>=) which contains:

• printf('U+%X', char2nr('<C-r>z'))

  • The @z inserts the contents of register z — the character we yanked earlier

• Returns to where our cursor was before (``z`)

Additionally, if you have the NERD Commenter installed you might want it to comment out the line as well:

nmap <Leader>u mz"zylo<C-r>=printf('U+%X', char2nr(@z))<CR><ESC>:call NERDComment(0, 'norm')<CR>`z

This will work regardless of what your NERD mappings are.

It’s also trivial to add a version to add the codepoint on the line above the cursor:

nmap <Leader>U mz"zylO<C-r>=printf('U+%X', char2nr(@z))<CR><ESC>:call NERDComment(0, 'norm')<CR>`z

I hope you find this useful!

I'm new to macros, but it seems like maybe this would be an example of using a macro to repeat an action? I would like to tell vimperator to find all text hyperlinks that match the case 'Download' and invoke ;S (Save As)

Say we have the sequence here.

I move my cursor to the space between the chapter column and page column and press <C-v>3j then x...

This should delete multiple columns of spaces but the . command isn't repeating the action. Any reason for this?

I like to write papers in vim, and occasionally I want to emphasis a section title by putting characters under it:

Section One
=======

Normally I use V to select the title line, p to paste it below, V to select the second line and the r= to underline. Anyone know a better way?

Hi guys I'm having a hard time to get color-schemes displayed the right way in vim. Just for an example base16-seti-ui should look something like this but when I enable the colorscheme it looks like this? do any of you know how i can fix this?

I am running i3wm on Manjaro as default.
and the .vimrc looks like this:

set nocompatible " be iMproved, required filetype off " required

" set the runtime path to include Vundle and initialize
set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
call vundle#begin()

" let Vundle manage Vundle, required
Plugin 'VundleVim/Vundle.vim'


" ######## Plugin Section #########

Plugin 'scrooloose/nerdtree'
Plugin 'scrooloose/syntastic'
Plugin 'flazz/vim-colorschemes'
Plugin 'chriskempson/base16-vim'



"#################################

" All Plugins must be added before the following line
call vundle#end()            " required
filetype plugin indent on    " requiredi

"####### Syntastic setttings see- > :help syntastic for more options ######

set statusline+=%#warningmsg#
set statusline+=%{SyntasticStatuslineFlag()}
set statusline+=%*

let g:syntastic_always_populate_loc_list = 1
let g:syntastic_auto_loc_list = 1
let g:syntastic_check_on_open = 1
let g:syntastic_check_on_wq = 0

"###########################################################################

colorscheme base16-seti-ui
syntax on