tmux and vim

My workflow and some favorite plugins

Meir Kriheli / @mkriheli

Workflow

Home setup

Home

  • Multiple projects
  • Multiple languages and databases
  • Switching between them frequently

Work

  • Windows machine
  • Linux virtual machine
  • Single project

tmux

Terminal multiplexer, like screen only better IMO.

It's in the FAQ

tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development

This book fast tracked me into it.

tmuxinator

I'll be back

Manage tmux sessions

https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator

tmux.conf customization

  • CTRL+A for prefix
  • Vim like movement between panes
  • tmux.conf reloading
  • Status line customization

See My config.

Tips

  • Shift + Mouse for regular terminal mouse activities
  • PREFIX+[ for copy mode/navigation
    • /: search
    • SPACE + movement: select
    • ENTER: copy/exit
  • PREFIX+] for paste

vim - Old Faithful

Old Faithful

By Jon Sullivan [Public domain]

Learning - the basics

Editor learning curve http://www.thejach.com/view/2012/07/vims_learning_curve_is_wrong

Don't learn shortcuts or cheat sheets, it's a language

e.g: Learning Vim in 2014: Vim as Language

Modes

Be in normal mode as much as possible

Motions

Key Motion
^ Beginning of line
$ End of line
0 First column

Text objects

i = in, a = all (around)

Obj Text object
iw inside word
i( Inside brackets
i" Inside quotes
ip Inside paragraph

:h text-objects

More motions

Travelling Without Moving

Travelling Without Moving, Jamiroquai

More motions

Command Motion
f / F Find char to right/left
t / T Till char to right/left
; Repeat find/till
, Repeat find/till in opposite direction/till in opposite direction
% Find match

Motions and verbs can be preceded with count.

Verbs

key Verb
d Delete with motion
c Change. Delete by motion and switch to insert mode
y Yank, aka copy, with motion
= Format/filter

Combinations

Here comes the boom

Combinations

Command Result
ci( Change in ()
cit Change inside tag
c2t, Change till 2nd comma

♥

Action Result
. Repeat last change
=i{ Format inside curly brackets
(e.g: js, golang}
=it Format inside tag
ci( Change inside ()
5dd Delete 5 lines
yat Copy all tag
% Find match
gq<motion> Format to text width
CTRL-A, CTRL-X Increment/Decrement numbers
:set rnu Relative numbers

♥ completions

Action Completion
CTRL-N Simple completion from
open buffers
CTRL-X CTRL-F Filesystem completion
CTRL-X CTRL-O Omni completion

Dislike

  • Synchronous plugins
  • Console vim not refreshing when getting back to it.

Bookmarks

Action Result
m<lowercase letter> Bookmark in current buffer
m<uppercase letter> Bookmark Across buffers
`<letter> Goto bookmarked letter

Special bookmarks

Bookmark Meaning
. Move to previous edit
, Move to cursor position before jump

Customizations

binding Action
jj <Esc>
, <Leader>
<Leader>v Load .vimrc
<Leader>V Activate changes to .vimrc
<F2> Close current split (window)
<Leader>S Remove trailing whitespace
<CTRL>hjkl Window movement commands
<Leader>d Delete buffer, keep the split
-, + Resize horizontal splits
<ALT>< <ALT>> Resize vertical splits
<F9> Toggle logical (RTL) editing

Plugins

Hands on with some of my favorite ones

Caveat: Synchronous

IMO the worst part of VIM, plugins run synchronously

Vundle

plug-in manager

Was with Pathogen before

Vundle

  • :PluginInstall
  • :PluginUpdate
  • :PluginList

MiniBufExplorer

Buffer explorer

I prefer splits over tabs

fugitive.vim

Git wrapper, simply great

The Fugitive Series at VimCasts

And vim-lawrencium for mercurial

vim-dispatch

Aasynchronous commands dispatcher

When inside tmux, opens a split, runs in it and captures the output.

Fugitive will use it for :Gpush, :Gpull


                  :Dispatch ./manage.py compilemessages -l he
                  :Dispatch gulp test

surround.vim

all about "surroundings": parentheses, brackets, quotes, XML tags, and more.

Easily delete, change and add such surroundings in pairs.

ack.vim

Frontend for the ack command

Custom shortcut: g*

Syntastic

Syntax checking hacks for vim

ctrlp.vim

Fuzzy file, buffer, mru, tag, etc finder

Custom shortcut: gr for CtrlPBufTag

NERD Tree

Tree explorer

snipMate + snipmate-snippets

TextMate's snippets features in Vim

auto-pairs

Insert or delete brackets, parens, quotes in pair.

MatchIt

Extended % matching for HTML, LaTeX, and many other languages.

MatchTag, highlight maching tag

vim-multiple-cursors

Sublime Text style multiple selections for Vim

splitjoin.vim

simplifies the transition between multiline and single-line code

tcomment_vim

extensible & universal commenting vim plugin that also handles embedded filetypes

gc<motion>

Or visual selection + gc

Language specific

Python

python-mode

PyLint, Rope, Pydoc, breakpoints from box.

  • Support Python version 2.6+ and 3.2+
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Virtualenv support
  • Run python code (<leader>r)
  • Add/remove breakpoints (<leader>b)
  • Improved Python indentation
  • Python folding

python-mode

  • Python motions and operators (]], 3[[, ]]M, vaC, viM, daC, ciM, ...)
  • Code checking (pylint, pyflakes, pylama, ...) that can be run simultaneously (:PymodeLint)
  • Autofix PEP8 errors (:PymodeLintAuto)
  • Search in python documentation (K)
  • Code refactoring <rope refactoring library> (rope)
  • Strong code completion (rope)
  • Go to definition (<C-c>g for :RopeGotoDefinition)
  • And much more ...

jedi-vim

Trying it for python auto completion, navigation, etc

po.vim - Gettext support

Also for Django's translations files

\m Next untranslated string
\p Prev untranslated string
\c Copy msgid to msgstr

Go - vim-go

  • Completion
  • gofmt
  • Go to symbol, definition
  • Tags support
Head hurts

My vim setup

https://github.com/MeirKriheli/dotvim

Learn, use, fork

Thanks!

Questions ?