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Vim for C Programmers

Issue 138

From Issue #138
October 2005

Oct 01, 2005  By Girish Venkatachalam
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You don't have to move to an integrated development environment to get luxury coding features. From variable autocompletions all the way up to integration with ctags and make, Vim makes a C programmer's life easier and more productive.
Conclusion

Vim comes with rich help documentation. Type :help from inside of Vim to browse it. To go to a particular topic, press Ctrl-] on the turquoise-colored text. Vim's help documentation uses the navigation mechanism we saw using tags.

Resources for this article: www.linuxjournal.com/article/8455.

Girish Venkatachalam loves to play with open-source operating systems, such as OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Debian GNU/Linux. He also likes to go cycling when not hacking. He can be contacted at girish1729@gmail.com.

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neo_nuggets's picture
Submitted by neo_nuggets (not verified) on Thu, 10/21/2010 - 08:50.

Hello sirs,
I have Vim and Code Blocks and am very much new to Vim and would like to know how does one build and run a script? (Yes...I am a newbie).

Nice article, concise and

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 09:44.

Nice article, concise and useful.

Seems like the author was trying to educate newcomers without trying to impress readers with unix-speak. I hope I can find more of his articles.

(windows programmer).

Try c.vimYou can get this

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Submitted by Shankar (not verified) on Thu, 09/07/2006 - 04:44.

Try c.vim
You can get this from vim.org
An amazing plugin for working with C files in gvim.

Editing between marks

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Submitted by Gary T (not verified) on Thu, 08/31/2006 - 09:00.

Excellent article, here's another little tip for marks and replacing.

Mark two points in the file with say ma and mb, you can then replace between the marks with

:'a,'bs/foo/bar/

or a single mark and then you can do current position to the mark with

:.,'as/foo/bar/

I find this incredibly useful, hopefully you will to.

Adding a small note

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Submitted by jagadeeshbp on Thu, 12/15/2005 - 23:04.

The article was quite marvellous and useful.

I just wanted to add, for those who are new to vim, that most of the settings like "se nu" can be made to persist across logins by just putting that setting in .vimrc file in the user's home directory.

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