Vim

Vim Fugitive. :Glog - show a commit author

TL;DR

let g:fugitive_summary_format = "%<(16,trunc)%an || %s"

The path of figuring that line out

Vim-Fugitive is a great package. Recently I started to use :Glog command a lot to look at range of changes added to a branch after git pull.

:Glog <hash>..<another hash>

By default the command only shows a commit hash and its subject.

I really wanted to see how can I show a commit author name as well.

Vim save file without AutoCmd

Vim’s autocmd is very powerful feature.

In my workflow I have many of them including autocmd for BufWrite.

There are rare cases when I want to save file and ignore any autocmd.

To do this you can just save it by:

:noa w

Of course there can be any command after :noa.

Check :h noa for more details.

Vim folding

Hi, I didn’t use folding functionality previously at all in any other editors, but after I watched this awesome video by Greg Hurrell I found this Vim feature super useful.

So to start getting all benefits from Vim folding just add this to your .vimrc:

set foldmethod=indent
set foldlevelstart=1

What these lines do is:

• set foldmethod - setting the folding method. indent is actually works mostly for all programming languages. There are other options though (see :h fold-methods)

  Vim, dumb-jump

  hi everyone,

  I’m currently using Vim in my day to day work, and if you don’t know I migrated from another perfect editor called Emacs.

  It was pretty easy to migrate since I used evil-mode in Emacs but the only library/plugin I miss is dumb-jump which is brilliant because allows you to jump to definition without any CTAGS/GTAGS.

  There is brilliant guy Chris Paul who made dim-jump plugin which does the same as dumb-jump.

  Vim, project specific settings

  Hey, I’ve just been looking for a good plugin that can help me to configure some VIM variables per project.

  For example I want set shiftwidth=2 for my JavaScript project and set shiftwidth=4 for PHP one.

  Turned out no plugin needed.

  Just put this to your .vimrc:

  silent! so .vimlocal
  

  Now if you put .vimlocal file to your project root, it will be sourced and “executed”.

  silent! is using to supress warnings when there is no .vimlocal file in a directory.

  vim-easygrep

  I’m currently trying to use Vim instead of Emacs and one of important workflow I’ve used to is grepping things in a project.

  There are few options:

  • use :vimgrep something **/*. It’s pretty long to type so I don’t really like it.
  • bind that vimgrep command to a key sequence. Which is better but still not ideal.
  • EasyGrep. The tool I chose.

  My config looks like this:

  let g:EasyGrepCommand="grep"
  let g:EasyGrepRoot="repository"
  let g:EasyGrepRecursive = 1
  let g:EasyGrepFilesToExclude = "vendor,docker,node_modules"
  

  By default EasyGrep use vimgrep which is not able to ignore folders as far as I got.