I love vim. I mean, there are a couple of great GUI editors that I like, but when I'm working in a terminal, vim is not just my editor of choice, but I actually prefer it to a bunch of other GUI editors I could choose from. The problem is that there is SO much to know. I've got the basics down, since I've been using it for over 20 years, but I honestly haven't taken the time to learn some of the more intermediate to advanced features until recently. I thought I'd keep some notes along the way in this blog post. Enjoy!
To paste in yanked lines and have them indent with the surrounding code, use ']p' instead of just 'p'
Use '>' to indent and '5>>' to indent 5 lines
Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/235839/how-do-i-indent-multiple-lines-quickly-in-vi
Using :split to open another document is great. But you don't always want the two windows to be equally divided, you need to make some adjustments. You could do this:
ctrl-w +
but you might have to do it over and over. Instead of typing that twenty times, just do this:
20 ctrl-w +
More goodies:
http://www.oualline.com/vim-cook.html#copy_block
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