TIPS

*tips.txt*      For IdeaVIM version 0.12.0.  Last change: 2006 Nov 12


                  IdeaVIM REFERENCE MANUAL    by Rick Maddy


Tips and ideas for using Vim                            *tips*

Don't forget to browse the user manual, it also contains lots of useful tips
|usr_toc.txt|.

Editing Java programs                           |Java-editing|

Editing Java programs                                      *Java-editing*

There are quite a few features in Vim to help you edit Java program files.  Here
is an overview with tags to jump to:

|usr_29.txt|            Moving through programs chapter in the user manual.
|usr_30.txt|            Editing programs chapter in the user manual.
|==|                    Re-indent a few lines.

|gd|                    Go to Declaration of variable under cursor.

|%|                     Go to matching (), {}, [], /* */, #if, #else, #endif.
|[(|                    Go back to unclosed '('
|])|                    Go forward to unclosed ')'
|[{|                    Go back to unclosed '{'
|]}|                    Go forward to unclosed '}'

Restoring the cursor position                           *restore-position*

Sometimes you want to write a mapping that makes a change somewhere in the
file and restores the cursor position, without scrolling the text.  For
example, to change the date mark in a file:
   :map <F2> msHmtgg/Last [cC]hange:\s*/e+1<CR>"_D"=strftime("%Y %b %d")<CR>p'tzt`s

Breaking up saving the position:
        ms      store cursor position in the 's' mark
        H       go to the first line in the window
        mt      store this position in the 't' mark

Breaking up restoring the position:
        't      go to the line previously at the top of the window
        zt      scroll to move this line to the top of the window
        `s      jump to the original position of the cursor