C editing with Vim HOWTO

2 moving around

2.1 w, e, b keystrokes

2.2 {, }, [[, ]] keystrokes

2.3 % keystroke

3 jumping to random positions in C files

3.1 ctags

ctrl-] ctrl-t

3.2 marks

mj 'j

mA 'A upper-case register could span files

3.3 gd stroke

gd means Goto Declaration.

gD will take you to the global declaration of the variable under the cursor.

4. Auto-completing words

ctrl-p ctrl-n

if you want to include foo.h, you can type

#include "f ctrl-x ctrl-f"

:set dictionary=file

ctrl-x ctrl-k

5. Formatting automatically

5.2 Automatically indent code

:set cindent

6. multi-file editing

$vim file1 file2

:n :N

:e# //jump back,toggle between two files

:split :vs ctrl-w ctrl-w

7. Quickfix

:make :cn :cN

:set makeprg=gcc/ test.c