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Aug 29, 2018
• Andrew Libby
While pairing a coworker remarked that I’m able to jump around in vim quite
quickly. While I use a number of techniques to jump around, including
gf,
rails-vim A, R and their family. I
came up with a variation on the ever handy *. Using the star
will jump to the next occurrence of the word under the cursor. This jump
jump is limited to the current file. I thought it might be handy to
have a leader command to quickly be able to
Ggrep for <cword> (the word
under the cursor).
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May 31, 2018
• Andrew Libby
How I search for patterns in VIM just improved a bit today. Generally I’d
search like so:
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Apr 13, 2018
• Andrew Libby
I recently began freelancing again, which means working on many different
projects. Diverse projects bring diverse needs with respect to vim
configuration. For example commands to fire off tests can vary based on
testing framework or file system layout.
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Jun 12, 2017
• Colin Bartlett
If you’ve ever diffed a file in Vim or otherwise had two corresponding splits,
you may have wished for a way to scroll them together. Vim can do just that
with scrollbind.
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Jun 11, 2017
• Colin Bartlett
Many operations in Vim can be executed over a given number of lines. For
example, d3j will delete the current line, plus the 3 below it. You may
find yourself reading the line numbers and then subtracting two numbers
in your head to decide how many lines to execute a command over. But
there is a better way.
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