Resources in the network (1, 2, 3) claim that some key
combinations, among which Ctrl-Shift-letter, Ctrl-number,
Ctrl-i/Tab, Ctrl-m/Enter,
Esc/Ctrl-[, cannot be mapped reliably in Vim because the
terminal does not distinguish them from their unmodified counterparts (more
background in this Gilles’ answer and this ASCII table article). As
a concrete example, the maps
You should never paste from web to your terminal. Instead, you should paste to your text editor, check the command and then paste to the terminal.
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?
I have a config-file that I keep open in vim, but that sometimes gets changed on disk, without these changes being reflected on the terminal. Can I refresh the content on the screen without closing and re-opening the file? If so, how?
I find myself doing the following almost every day
My question is simple, but I am finding it hard to frame/explain it easily.
This may sound trivial but, on more than one occasion, I have found myself having forgotten which file in vim I have open (e.g. when I am looking through different log files and such) and the only way I knew how to find out was to close the file and look in the command history for the most recent command.
My terminal setup is gnome-terminal + tmux + zsh with vi bindings.