Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 17, 2006 08:41 PM
If you like using Vim, but have wanted to do the things you described that you like in JEdit (hiding blocks of code and tweaking your colors), you can do as much in Vim if you want. To hide blocks of code, you use what Vim calls "folding" You can either use the "<tt>zf{motion} </tt>" command to fold a range, or you can highlight a range and then type "<tt>zf</tt>" to fold the text to a single line. For more info, see Vim's online help at "<tt>:help folding</tt>"
For altering your colors, you can either choose an existing color-scheme, take an existing one and modify it, or even build your own from scratch. This is described in "<tt>:help<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:syn-default-override</tt>".
One of the things I love about Vim is that wherever you go, there's vim. I can use it on Win32, Linux, *BSD, MacOSX, etc. If you like Vim and just didn't know about these features, hopefully they'll serve you well.
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Hiding code and customizing colors in Vim
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 17, 2006 08:41 PMIf you like using Vim, but have wanted to do the things you described that you like in JEdit (hiding blocks of code and tweaking your colors), you can do as much in Vim if you want. To hide blocks of code, you use what Vim calls "folding" You can either use the "<tt>zf{motion} </tt>" command to fold a range, or you can highlight a range and then type "<tt>zf</tt>" to fold the text to a single line. For more info, see Vim's online help at "<tt>:help folding</tt>"
For altering your colors, you can either choose an existing color-scheme, take an existing one and modify it, or even build your own from scratch. This is described in "<tt>:help<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:syn-default-override</tt>".
One of the things I love about Vim is that wherever you go, there's vim. I can use it on Win32, Linux, *BSD, MacOSX, etc. If you like Vim and just didn't know about these features, hopefully they'll serve you well.
-gumnos
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