Vim editor tips

Split into 2 screen:

  

• split your screen in multiple files horizontal: :sp <filepath>\

• switch between splitscreens with Ctrl+W

•  :vsp or :vp is for vertical split. Then use Ctrl+W <ARROW_KEYS> to move in panes.

:n -> Move to next file
:N -> Move to previous file

Vimdiff colorscheme:

List all the installed color schemes in VIM:

Type

:colorscheme then Space followed by TAB.

or as Peter said,

:colorscheme then Space followed by CTRLd

or path: /usr/share/vim/vim74/colors/b

Load different colorscheme when using vimdiff

if &diff
    colorscheme some_other_scheme
endif

Hence the .vimrc file content:

" Set colorscheme only to Vimdiff if use from command line
" Check the colorschme for vimdiff and collected below
"      pablo -> good, slate -> ok, blue -> Very dark

if &diff
    colorscheme pablo
endif

Complete .vimrc file content:

"Indents braces
set cindent



"Indents by 4 spaces
set shiftwidth=4



"Prevents spaces from being converted to tabs
"set expandtab



"To hightligth the search word"
set hlsearch



" Red line verital mark
"set cc=80



" Once it reace 79 it will automatically come to next line
"set tw=79



" always add a space after comma
" Enable it only if you keep on forgetting space after comma
" inoremap , ,<space>

" strcpy, strncpy, strcat, strncat, sprintf, strtok, memcpy are banned APIs.
" Highlight them as Error, to prevent accidental usage.
match Error /\<strcpy\>\|\<strncpy\>\|\<strcat\>\|\<strncat\>\|\<sprintf\>\|\<strtok\>\|\<memcpy\>/

fun! VerifySyntaxError()
        highlight default link LinuxError ErrorMsg

        syn match LinuxError / \+\ze\t/     " spaces before tab
        syn match LinuxError /\%>80v[^()\{\}\[\]<>]\+/ " virtual column 81 and more

        " Highlight trailing whitespace, unless we're in insert mode and the
        " cursor's placed right after the whitespace. This prevents us from having
        " to put up with whitespace being highlighted in the middle of typing
        " something
        autocmd InsertEnter * match LinuxError /\s\+\%#\@<!$/
        autocmd InsertLeave * match LinuxError /\s\+$/
endfunction

map <F5> :call VerifySyntaxError()<CR>



" Vel Adding list :
" For ctags, to use ctrl + ] option
set cscopetag

" Set colorscheme only to Vimdiff if use from command line
" Check the colorschme for vimdiff and collected below
"      pablo -> good, slate -> ok, blue -> Very dark

if &diff
    colorscheme pablo
endif