#VIM COMMAND E VS E CODE#

Far too many to cover here, but some of the values are buffer to complete buffer names, dir to complete directory names, help to complete help topic name and file to complete file and directory names. There are over thirty different values that this can be set to. This argument lets Vim know what kind of tab completion is available for the command. Īnother argument that will be used in these commands will be -complete=. Second, if you need to make sure the arguments are properly escaped for use in an expression you can use. First, just using somewhere in the actions part of the command. You can access the arguments in a number of ways. The commands I want to build will take a single argument, the path to the reference file to open, so I'll be using -nargs=1. ?: The command take zero or one argument.+: The command takes one or more arguments.*: The command takes zero or more arguments.: The command takes the specified number of arguments.This is the default, so it can be omitted entirely. The possible values it can be set to are:

This lets Vim know if the command takes any arguments. The most important of these is the -nargs= argument. The :command command takes zero or more optional arguments. When creating a user command :command takes the following form: It is handy if you ever forget a command name you created or one you loaded from a plugin. You can use :command on its own in Vim to get a list of user defined commands. That's right, the Vim command to create user defined commands is :command. One to open a reference file in a vertical window to the right and leave the current window active, and a horizontal version of the same command that opens the reference file in the bottom window.Īlong the way I will describe the Vim :command command and its options so you can create your own Vim commands if you need to. I'll actually create two commands in this post. What I really want is to open the CSS file in a window on the right and continue editing the HTML file. Using :vsplit opens the CSS file in a new Vim window, makes it the active window and moves the HTML file I'm editing to the right. This is easy enough to do in Vim, simply :vsplit and the CSS file is available in a split window.Īhh, but there is a problem. I want to open the CSS file in a split window so I can see it, but I don't need to edit it. I'm working on a bit of code, say an HTML page, and I need to add a class name that is defined in one of the project's CSS files.

#VIM COMMAND E VS E CODE#

There is a particular code editing situation that I find myself in very often. I find it much easier to learn things if there is something I want to build, so this is the command that will be built. I'll show you the basics here, and where to look for more information. You might think it is hard to create a new Vim command, but it isn't. Many Vim plugins add their own Ex commands as part of the plugin. You can make your own Ex commands as well. There are Ex commands available to do pretty much anything that can be done in Vim. Hell, you use an Ex command to exit Vim :quit, or just :q. If you have used Vim for any length of time you have run across Ex commands.

Vim command e vs e