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Buyer: xiujuan lu (luxiujuan@gmail.com)<br />

Transaction ID: 85W16630AD8515549<br />

Vim <strong>101</strong> Hacks<br />

www.thegeekstuff.com<br />

$ <strong>vim</strong> /home/jsmith/mythesaurus.txt<br />

important,valuable,substantial,significant<br />

Step 2: Specify Thesaurus File Location in ~/.<strong>vim</strong>rc<br />

Add the following line to .<strong>vim</strong>rc specifying the location of thesaurus file.<br />

$ <strong>vim</strong> ~/.<strong>vim</strong>rc<br />

set thesaurus+=/home/jsmith/mythesaurus.txt<br />

Step 3: Use Thesaurus While Editing Document Using CTRL-X CTRL-T<br />

From <strong>vim</strong>, if you want to use an alternative word, press CTRL x + CTRL t in<br />

the insert mode.<br />

For example, when you’ve typed the word “important”, press CTRL-X and<br />

CTRL-T, which will show a popup with the alternate words “valuable”,<br />

“substantial” and “significant” as shown below from your<br />

/home/jsmith/mythesaurus.txt file.<br />

CTRL-X CTRL-T<br />

Fig: Launch Thesaurus from Vim using CTRL-X and CTRL-T<br />

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