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Re: "Configuration tricks, tips, etc."
@Addison: I am in the habit of swapping CapsLock and Ctrl, from my Emacs days. jk is a pretty good compromise, although I can see that getting out of insert mode is needed much more often than some ctrl combo...
Jul 05 · 6 months ago
🔭 TheSpoonCarver · Jul 06 at 20:07:
I'm trying to weed myself off of the plugins like easymotion that allow you to jump to any character on screen in just a few taps. Instead, I've been trying to use search offsets more, so /foo/1 goes to the line after foo, or /foo/e+5 goes to 5 characters to the right of foo
🐦 Arkaeriit · Jul 06 at 22:20:
@TheSpoonCarver Thanks for the tip. I didn't knew such a feature existed. I will check it out.
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.
Configuration tricks, tips, etc.