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---
title: "Vim Tips 2015-03-17"
description: "First Vim tip post of a series of unknown size"
tags:
- "Vim"
- "Tips and Tricks"
- "Editors"
date: "2015-03-17"
categories:
- "Development"
- "Editors"
- "Tools"
slug: "vim-tips-2015-03-17"
---
This is the start of a series of posts about better Vim usage. It's yet to be
determined how often and how frequent this will run, but expect more than just
this first post.
## Folds ##
When using manual folding, creating a fold in Vim is as easy as one command:
In normal mode, `zf<movement>`.
For example, while in Java code and on a Method opening curly brace, type
`zf%`.
And a fold is now created around that method. You can toggle it open and closed
with `za`, you can also open it with `zo` and you can close it with `zc`.
Similarly, to remove a fold created by `zf`, use `zd<movement>` to remove
folds.
From the above example, while in normal mode, typing `zd%` will remove the fold
for the method's block.
For more information about folding and the other modes, visit the [Vim wiki
page][2] on folding.
## Substitution Range ##
Here are some more explicit examples of the range options provided when doing
substitutions:
To substitute the first occurrence of the pattern in the current line:
:s/foo/bar
All occurrences:
:s/foo/bar/g
Entire file, first occurrence:
:%s/foo/bar/
Entire file, all occurrences:
:%s/foo/bar/g
Now for something completely different, specific ranges:
:<starting line>,<ending line>s/foo/bar[/g]
End today's kicker: changing from a line to the end of the file:
:<start>,$s/foo/bar[/g]
Visit [Vim Ranges][3] to view more information about the ranges available in
Vim.
## References ##
[1]: http://zzapper.co.uk/vimtips.html
* [Vim Tips][1]
[2]: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Folding
* [Vim Wikia: Folding][2]
[3]: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Ranges
* [Vim Wikia: Ranges][3]
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