Vim Splits – Move Faster and More Naturally

Same here, I can quickly have all the functions, data, and docs visible, that I need for the particular code that I'm currently writing. Having to switch back and forth would only confuse me. Usually, the biggest problem I have with other IDEs is that they don't allow me to split as freely as vim / emacs do. XCode is shockingly stupid about it, for example.

As someone who's been using vim for about 20 years, here are the problems I have with any vi/vim emulation modes in emacs:

* Configuring emacs still requires learning a lot about emacs (which takes a lot of time).

* These vi/vim emulation modes doen't touch SLIME's keybindings, afaik. So, to make them less finger-twisting will require manual rebinding (which takes yet more time).

* Most emacs tutorials assume you're using the standard key bindings. So you still have to learn them.

All of the above make the various vi/vim emulation modes fine for people who already know emacs, or who are willing to sink a ton of time in learning it and reconfiguring it. But they are far less attractive to vim users who already have a nice environment set up in vim and feel comfortable in it.

I guess they're still better than nothing. If I had to use emacs, I'd certainly use something like evil mode. But evil mode alone is not enough to make a vim veteran feel comfortable in emacs.

+1 For evil-mode. I'm still using MacVim and Emacs+Evil side by side because many things that my vim does (via plugins etc) my emacs/evil doesn't do yet and I lack the time to research it all. But having elisp for extension is such a joy to use. I've dabbled a bit with evil, too, and I really like how easy it is to extend it.

I already have a fixed set of tabs open for different use cases, and switch between them frequently. Adding a new tab to that temporarily would probably confuse me. I may try the tabedit / tabclose solution nevertheless though, I hadn't thought about doing it that way. The advantage being that I'd have one plugin less :)

Splits are not tabs.

Edit re below: OK, good point. But I would still prefer the plugin (and plan to install it) because I just don't use tabs, preferring to stick with splits.

A single mapping instead of two.

Can you point me to docs on in file searching? Those symbols are predictably hard to google. Based on a little messing around, it appears that * is what I expect from bash, and can also include directory separators.

Thanks for this, I was searching for this exact thing the other day and couldn't find it.

If you like 'set autochdir', then you should try this plugin https://github.com/amiorin/vim-project

You can even drop the p (and spaces if you are using arguments) So to open a vertical split containing a file browser in the current dir:

    :vs.

I'm using the following to expand "%%" in command mode to the full path of the current open file's directory:

  cabbr <expr> %% expand('%:p:h')

I use:

    map <leader>e :e <C-r>=expand("%:p:h") . "/" <cr>

    map <leader>v :vs <C-r>=expand("%:p:h") . "/" <cr>

I think I solved that problem quite elegantly :) However I still have a small TODO regarding printing from cygwin:

    set encoding=utf-8
    " TODO check if printing of utf-8 chars works with 'set fileencoding=utf-8'
    set fileencoding=utf-8


    " {{{ Diacritic characters: <Leader>char (keyboard switching doesn't work in cygwin)
    " Use the same keys as on a keyboard
    inoremap <Leader>; ö
    inoremap <Leader>: ö
    inoremap <Leader>' ä
    inoremap <Leader>" Ä
    inoremap <Leader>[ ü
    inoremap <Leader>{ Ü
    inoremap <Leader>- ß

    " Comment/Uncoment following as you need:
    "inoremap <Leader>`A Á
    "inoremap <Leader>`Ae Ä
    "inoremap <Leader>`C Č
    "inoremap <Leader>`D Ď
    "inoremap <Leader>`E É
    "inoremap <Leader>`I Í
    "inoremap <Leader>`Ll Ĺ
    "inoremap <Leader>`L Ľ
    "inoremap <Leader>`N Ň
    "inoremap <Leader>`O Ó
    "inoremap <Leader>`Ou Ô
    "inoremap <Leader>`R Ŕ
    "inoremap <Leader>`S Š
    "inoremap <Leader>`T Ť
    "inoremap <Leader>`U Ú
    "inoremap <Leader>`Y Ý
    "inoremap <Leader>`Z Ž
    "inoremap <Leader>`a á
    ""inoremap <Leader>` ä " defined already
    "inoremap <Leader>`c č
    "inoremap <Leader>`z ž
    "inoremap <Leader>`e é
    "inoremap <Leader>`i í
    "inoremap <Leader>`l ľ
    "inoremap <Leader>`n ň
    "inoremap <Leader>`o ó
    "inoremap <Leader>`ou ô
    "inoremap <Leader>`r ŕ
    "inoremap <Leader>`s š
    "inoremap <Leader>`t ť
    "inoremap <Leader>`u ú
    "inoremap <Leader>`y ý
    "inoremap <Leader>`z ž
    " }}}

"Vim is pretty dumb about utf-8."

It might not work the way you prefer using your favorite input method, but vim allows you to enter any utf-8 character, and even has mnemonic digraphs for many you are most likely to want. To get è, for example, in input mode just type <ctl>-k`e.

I code on a Macbook, and I actually use say... Option+i, e in order to get ê. That works inside Vim, too, I just found out.

Obviously not very helpful to people not on a Mac, but I don't have to go through Alt mappings at all.