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Vim Commands Cheat Sheet PDF version

Add to ~/.vimrc:

:syntax enable

Tested on Ubuntu.

echo :colorscheme desert >> /etc/vim/vimrc.local

Tested on Ubuntu.

echo :set ls=2 >> /etc/vim/vimrc.local

SourceThe UNIX and Linux Forums - Continuously display the file name in vim

To UNIX:

:set ff=unix

To DOS:

:set ff=dos

Source: stack overflow - Convert DOS line endings to Linux line endings in vim

Type:

:s/Ctrl+VCtrl+M/\r/g

The replace will then look like this:

:s/^M/\r/g

Source:Tech Recipes - Remove ^M characters at end of lines in vi

To replace from the current line to the end (,$):

:,$s/[Ctrl+vu201cCtrl+vu201d]/"/g

Ctrl+vu201c means: hit Ctrl+V, enter u201c.

So that it looks like:

:,$s/[“”]/"/g

Source:stack overflow - In Vim how do I efficiently search and replace “ and ” with normal double quotes "

:sort

Sort case-insensitive:

:sort i

Source: Stack Exchange - How to sort case-insensitive?

Sort and keep unique values:

:sort u

Source: stack overflow - Removing duplicate rows in vi?

The cf.vim with syntax highlighting supplied with Vim (on OpenBSD) does not highlight cfscript files.
To update, replace the highlighting with the cf-utils.vim from GitHub.

1. Download the last version from GitHub - davejlong/cf-utils.vim via the “Download ZIP/TAR.GZ” button on the right.
2. Unpack the archive.
3. Copy the contents of the cf-utils.vim-<hash> directory to ~/.vim/:

   mkdir ~/.vim/ && cp -R cf-utils.vim-15088cfad92f0e01d8d6c62e8804828f5adf8bd6/* ~/.vim/

4. Start vim and open a .cfm file from ~/.vim/examples/ to test.
5. The code should be highlighted in colors.

Tested on Debian 9 with VIM 8.0 with included patches: 1-197, 322, 377-378, 550.

Disable mouse support so you can copy and paste the way I'm used to by commenting the “if has ('mouse')” statement in /usr/share/vim/vim80/defaults.vim.

Unified diff patch to do this:

--- /usr/share/vim/vim80/defaults.vim.original  2017-04-23 14:10:29.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/share/vim/vim80/defaults.vim   2017-07-25 09:57:42.009742204 +0200
@@ -66,9 +66,9 @@

 " In many terminal emulators the mouse works just fine.  By enabling it you
 " can position the cursor, Visually select and scroll with the mouse.
-if has('mouse')
-  set mouse=a
-endif
+"if has('mouse')
+"  set mouse=a
+"endif

 " Switch syntax highlighting on when the terminal has colors or when using the
 " GUI (which always has colors).

Source: Stack Exchange - Unix & Linux - vim cut&paste not working in Stretch / Debian 9

Or just do the following which is simpler and less invasive:

echo :set mouse= >> ~/.vimrc

Start recording:

q+LETTER

End recording:

q

To disable recording add the following to .vimrc:

map q <Nop>

Source:stackoverflow - What is Vim recording and how can it be disabled?