Export syntax-highlighted pdf files from vim
If you want to export from vim to a pdf file with syntax highlighting, hardcopy does not seem to use the correct syntax highlighting file. Or rather, it uses...
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Making vim display italicised text
To make vim display italicised text, see this wonderful blog entry. Essentially, we need to manually map the escape sequences to the keywords sitm and ritm, ...
PEP8-style indentation in vim
How do you automatically get vim to do PEP8-style indentation for python code? Look up this blog post which references this vim script. It has also been adde...
modeline needs to be set for it to work
Note that in order for vim modelines to work, you must have the ‘modeline’ option set, i.e. :set modeline. Do a :help modeline for more info.
Using ASCII codes in vim
To insert characters with a certain ascii code in vim, use <C-v><code>. For example, <C-v>178 will print the squared symbol. I think only t...
Open binary files in vim
To open binary files in a readable format, use vim -b. A more complex tool is xxd. Look at this link or man xxd for more info.
Vim search register
You can substitute the last search pattern in vim either by omitting the search pattern in the :%s command, or by inserting the contents of the search regist...
Exporting to pdf from vim
Export a vim file in whole or in part to postscript using :hardcopy >file.ps. Then use ps2pdf <file.ps> to convert to pdf.
Word count in vim
Use g<C-g> to find the word count of a document. Also works in visual mode.
Vim modelines
If vim does not detect a filetype correctly, then you can add a modeline at the top of the file (first or second line, I think), which tells vim the filetype...