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.
Continue reading »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.
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.
Vanilla Vim allows you to easily fold up blocks of code to save screen space
with :fold.
If you use Tim Pope’s vim-dispatch, you likely have adopted his setup to use the F9 key to run tests. It’s not uncommon that I wish to invoke a particular test example.
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