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":edit!" or just ":e!"
2023-07-01 · 1 year ago
🚀 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.
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