Select all in vim

Note: This will only work within vim, copying to the clipboard or when using putty is a different story...

Using tabs in vim

Starting with vim 7 you can use tabs, which is especially handy if you're a developer. The tabs are displayed in the first line (requires to have more than one tab open), highlighting the active tab. A + marks the tab as having unsaved changes.

Some useful commands:

I wish I would have known these a few years back, I guess I should have RTFM ;-)

Know thy vim!

Real short post! If you use vim, check this out:

Using VIM color schemes with putty

My eyes are always grateful if I can spare them terrible color schemes. The other day I stumbled on what seemed to be a really nice color scheme called wombat, so I decided to allot five minutes of my time to quickly change the color scheme...or so I thought ;-)

Turns out that when using putty, not all colors are available, and most good looking vim color schemes will not work. After googling, I found that someone has converted the theme for 88 and 256 color xterms. So I downloaded that one too. Surely, now it would work, right?

Well, almost, after some more googling, I finally found the solution. In your vimrc file, simply add the following line

and presto, now you can use the wombat256 theme ;-)