Category: Tips and Tricks

Closing hidden buffers 4.4 (45)

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

Making small changes 4.3 (69)

Use r to replace a single character in Vim.

Changing regex delimiters 4.7 (91)

Use any delimiter in your regular expression to avoid escaping slashes.

January 31, 2022

Splitting to a specific size 4.6 (32)

Open Vim splits to a specific height or width by prepending a number to the command.

January 3, 2022

Clear search highlight 4.6 (38)

Clear the annoying persistent search highlight in Vim with any of these methods.

November 29, 2021

Toggle Vim boolean options 4.8 (32)

Vim allows toggling any boolean option with this one quick trick.

November 7, 2021

Open splits more naturally 4.8 (63)

Open Vim splits to the right and below for a more natural movement.

October 25, 2021

Filtering through an external command 4.6 (30)

Filter content through an external command to manipulate it with other programs.

September 6, 2021

Maximize the current split 4.6 (34)

Use the vim-maximizer plugin to get a closer look at a single split.

August 16, 2021

Print substitutions 4.8 (36)

Use Vim’s global command to print substitutions when replacing.