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2023-07-01 ยท 11 months ago
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.
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":edit!" or just ":e!"
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 Emacsโ better programming models/APIs and all the excellent features people have written for it.
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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.
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