By default vim opens .ss files with some other file format syntax highlighting. To enable HTML (actually XHTML) syntax highlighting on your .SS Silverstripe template files, create (or edit) your ~/.vim/filetype.vim file. Then enter this: au BufNewFile,BufRead *.ss setf xhtml Then open a .ss file and it’ll give you nice HTML syntax highlighting. And because it’s in your home directory, it’ll keep working even after you upgrade vim.
Strip ^M from file in vim
If there are ^M at the end of every line when you view them in vim, you can do this: :%s/^M//g To get the “^M” bit, hit ctrl-v and then ctrl-m.
Assorted Handy vim Commands, Part 1
To reverse the order of lines, eg 1-5 : 1,5 g/^/m0 For example, one two three four five becomes five four three two one To remove blank lines : %g/^$/d Delete all lines that don’t contain “string” : %v/string/d
vim: Quickly assign POST variables in PHP
You’ve got a web form with lots of fields, and you want to POST them to a PHP script. Open vim, and list the INPUT tag’s NAME attributes, one per line. <?php firstname lastname address1 address2 state postcode ?> Now with some search-and-replace magic we can save ourself a lot of boring typing. Hit ‘escape’ to get out of insert mode, type a colon (“:”) and copy-paste this: %s/^\(\S\+\)/\$\1 = \$_POST\[\’\1\’\]; I won’t bother explaining it unless someone asks. But what you should end up with is this: <?php $firstname = $_POST[‘firstname’]; $lastname = $_POST[‘lastname’]; $address1 = $_POST[‘address1’]; $address2 = …