14 Jul 2010 Indent/format an entire file using vim

You can format/indent an entire file using the vim editor and the gg=G command.

    gg - Goto the beginning of the file
    =  - apply indentation
    G  - till end of file

If you decide not to indent your file, just press u to undo the last operation.

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17 Oct 2007 Switch off annoying bell/beep in xterm

My colleagues don’t like all the bell/beep sounds I make when I’m working in a xterm through my putty ssh client.

To please them I’ve added this line to /etc/inputrc to disable bell on tab-completion.

set bell-style none

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Put this line in your ~/.vimrc

set esckeys

Another alternative is to install vim

aptitude install vim

And do the necessary changes on the settings file /etc/vim/vimrc

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Different ways of replacing text etc.

Replace every occurrence of pattern1 (pat1) with pat2

:g/pat1/s//pat2/g

Replace every occurence of pattern1 (pat1) with a newline

:g/pat1/s//\r/g

In practice this inserts a newline after every occurence of pat1.

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This command have to be performed in the vim editor:

:%s/hardware ethernet 0:/hardware ethernet 00:/

Tags: DHCP, vim

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