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🚀 stack [mod]

2023-07-01 · 3 years ago

5 Comments ↓

☕️ johan · 2023-07-01 at 14:44:

Two basic features I love in vim are Ctrl-V/Shift-V for block/linewise visual mode, and also running shell commands on that selection with :! vim plays so well with the unix philosophy.

🚀 stack [OP/mod] · 2023-07-01 at 18:21:

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":edit!" or just ":e!"

🚀 totroptof · 2023-07-01 at 19:01:

I was thinking about saying this as a joke, but in thinking about it I realised it was a tip that I received that was actually genuinely useful to me. My best Vim tip is: use Emacs with EVIL instead. As a long-time Vim user EVIL is a good enough emulation for me to feel comfortable whilst getting the benefits of Emacs’ better programming models/APIs and all the excellent features people have written for it.

🚀 stack [OP/mod] · 2023-07-16 at 21:42:

r!date

🚀 stack [OP/mod] · 2023-07-25 at 22:41:

From: 👻 simul8

My favorites are:

gq - autoformat/wrap lines

di( or di{ or di< or di[ - deletes everything between braces

. - performs last editing action (macro)

q - sets macro

visual-mode - great for commenting out a block of code

And the best key sequence that I wish vim tutorials would cover is....

ctrl-c - It's the touch-typist friendly equivalent to esc.