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Category: Tips and Tricks

September 5, 2022

Vim Move Split 3.4 (533)

Move a Vim split with these built-in shortcuts. Your current split can be moved in Vim with ctrl-w and a letter movement: H J K L.

Andy Libby
Andy Libby
August 29, 2022

Vim Search Visual Selection 4.4 (84)

You can search a visual selection in Vim by using one of the built in Vim regular expression features called atoms.

Andy Libby
Andy Libby
August 8, 2022

Vim Line Length Marker 4.7 (46)

Vim’s line length marker capability, called colorcolumn, allows you to visually highlight a certain text width.

Colin Bartlett
Colin Bartlett
July 25, 2022

Vim Autocomplete HTML Tags 4.3 (38)

Vim autocompletes HTML tags with a simple configuration option. Find out how to enable this useful auto complete option in Vim.

Colin Bartlett
Colin Bartlett
July 11, 2022

Vim Checkbox Toggle 3.5 (38)

The Vim Checkbox plugin allows you to toggle checkboxes in Markdown written in Vim.

Colin Bartlett
Colin Bartlett
June 27, 2022

Vim text alignment 4.4 (101)

There are several commands in Vim to help align text to the left, center, or right.

Andy Libby
Andy Libby
June 12, 2022

Edit multiple lines at once in Vim 3.9 (101)

Use the vim-visual-multi plugin to edit multiple lines at once in Vim.

Colin Bartlett
Colin Bartlett
May 23, 2022

Get the current file path 4.2 (61)

Create a mapping to copy the present file path to your clipboard.

Colin Bartlett
Colin Bartlett
May 9, 2022

Closing hidden buffers 4.4 (45)

Delete all hidden buffers in Vim to speed up and clean up.

Colin Bartlett
Colin Bartlett
April 25, 2022

Making small changes 4.2 (73)

Use r to replace a single character in Vim.

Andy Libby
Andy Libby

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