less command and syntax highlighting
I need to use the less command with the syntax highlighting of the vim command for python, C, bash and other languages.
vi
xargs and vi – “Input is not from a terminal”
I have about 10 php.ini files on my system, located all over the place, and I wanted to quickly browse through them. I tried this command:
Commenting out multiple lines of code, specified by line numbers, using vi or vim
I have learned from this Stack Overflow question that it is possible to use vi/vim to comment out a specified range of line numbers. For example, suppose I have the following bash script:
Vi vs vim, or, is there any reason why I would ever want to use vi?
I know a bit about *NIX text editors (currently migrating from nano to vim), and, after looking around a bit on the Unix & Linux SE, have noticed that vi is used instead of ‘vim’ in a fair number of questions. I know that ‘vim’ stands for ‘Vi IMproved’, and, with that in mind, am wondering why anyone would rather use vi instead of vim. Does vi have any significant advantage over vim?
Advantages of using set -o vi
I have seen many developers using this command to set the option to vi. I never understood the real use of this?
How to automatically strip trailing spaces on save in Vi and Vim?
Is there a .vimrc setting to automatically remove trailing whitespace when saving a file?