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Make Vim Remember The Cursor’s Last Position After Exiting
So you edit a file in vim, you exit vim, and after a while you want to edit the file again. Many times it’s nice to have the cursor placed in the same position you left it. Here’s how to make this happen:
1. Add this to your ~/.vimrc file (or to /etc/vim/vimrc to enable to the feature system-wide):
if has(“autocmd”)au BufReadPost * if line(“‘\”") > 1 && line(“‘\”") <= line(“$”) | exe “normal! g`\”" | endifendif
touch ~/.viminfo
Fix Bad Indentation When Pasting Text To Vim
The problem is this:
You’re editing a buffer in vim, you copy a text (say, code snippet) from another place (say, Firefox), and you paste it inside vim (with middle mouse button / shift+insert). Most chances you won’t like what vim has just did to your text.
The problem is that vim doesn’t “know” that you’re actually pasting a text, and it thinks that you’re typing. So, if you have indentation enabled, it will re-indent your text.
The solution is simple: Whenever you want to paste text from outside vim into vim. Type this in command mode:
:set paste
So now vim knows that you’re going to paste text, and it will not touch it.
To disable the paste mode:
:set nopaste
As easy as that 
NumPad Problems When Using Vim over Tmux
I use vim as my main text editor, and I usually split the screen to edit a few buffers in parallel. To make resizing the windows faster, I mapped the numpad keys “/*-+” to resize the windows (see original vim tip here).
Recently, I started to use tmux, and opened vim, split the windows as usual, and tried to resize them. It didn’t work 
I use Ubuntu 10.04 (Don’t remember the exotic name..), and I found that the latest tmux package in their repo is 1.1-1.
Anyway, version 1.1-1 has a bug with the NumPad. The solution is to download the source of tmux 1.2 and build it. It depends on libevent so you’ll need to get it first:
this is how to make it work:
1. sudo apt-get install libevent-dev
2. Get the source tarball of tmux from here.
3. tar xzf tmux-1.2.tar.gz
4. cd tmux-1.2
5. ./configure
6. make
7. sudo make install
Done. Now your life is better. Have fun
Vim Tip – Convert Code To HTML
If you wrote some elegant code, and want to publish it as a HTML page, you can easily do that in vim:
In command mode, type this:
:TOhtml
A new buffer will be opened with the HTML source, just save it:
:wq
If the original file name was “mycode.c”, you’ll find a new file in the same directory named “mycode.c.html”. Open it with your favourite web browser.
Wow, not?
Have fun
Make Shell Scripts Executable By Default
If you use vim to write shell scripts, you might want to save the “chmod +x” command after saving the script.
By adding the following line to your vimrc file (typically, it’s located at ~/.vimrc), scripts will automatically become executable.
au BufWritePost * if getline(1) =~ “^#!” | if getline(1) =~ “/bin/” | silent !chmod a+x <afile> | endif | endif
(meaning, if the file includes #! with “/bin/” in the path, apply “chmod a+x” on this file).
via shell-fu.
Have fun
Edit The Command Line With Vim
This is a quick (and great) tip I found at Daily Vim:
Open a linux terminal, and type some (long) command.
Now type [ctrl]+[x] and then [ctrl]+[e]
The command should be moved now to a vim window.
Edit the command (fix typos, change parameters, etc..) and save.
The command will now be executed.
Enjoy
Posting to WordPress from Vim
Hi,
I just discovered a cool vim plugin called Vimpress which allows one to post directly from vim.
Actually, this post is published using Vimpress.
I think I’ll be using it for short/simple posts.
That’s it, c ya
About Me
My name is Amir Watad. I have a BSc. in biomedical engineering from The Biomedical Engineering school , Technion , Israel, and a BSc. in electrical engineering from The Electrical Engineering school , Technion , Israel.
I'm a Verification Engineer in Mellanox Technologies Ltd.
I love Linux, the Command Line and the OpenSource Community.
I used to write Poems (Arabic) when I was able to find time for this.
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