Scroll two splits simultaneously
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.
Show relative line numbers
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.
Fold a code block
Vanilla Vim allows you to easily fold up blocks of code to save screen space
with :fold.
dispatch rspec single test
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.
Continue reading »Add a line above or below
If you don’t have Tim Pope’s unimpaired.vim, you should. Unimpaired adds many useful pairs of mappings including one for adding an empty line above or below your current line.
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