Vim Tips

I post daily tips related to using the vim text editor

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2024-09-19 21:46:42

Here's a vim tip,
A lot of these tips come from https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Best_Vim_Tips. Check out the wiki site for many more tips!

2024-09-18 21:46:42

Vim tip of the day!
Using vim to type up professional documents? You can get vim to spellcheck by typing ':set spell'. You can also permanently enable spellcheck by adding that to your .vimrc file.

2024-09-17 21:46:42

Vim is super useful! Try this?
Press 'v' from NORMAL mode to enable VISUAL selection mode. Use arrow keys to then make your selection and enter a hotkey like y or d to yank (copy) or delete the selection, respectively.

2024-09-16 14:19:34

Use Shift+5 (the percent sign on en-US keyboard layouts) to skip to the matching bracket, brace, or parenthesis pair

2024-09-15 14:19:34

This vim tip may be useful
From COMMAND mode, to switch between opened tabs type tabprevious and tabnext respectively

2024-09-14 14:19:36

Vim is super useful! Try this?
Use 'i' or 'a' to enter INSERT mode, placing the cursor before or after the NORMAL mode cursor, respectively. Use 'I' or 'A' to enter INSERT mode, moving the cursor to the start or end of the current line, respectively.

2024-09-13 14:19:36

2024-09-12 14:19:36

Vim can be configured out the wazoo, try this
Use x to create a new line

2024-09-11 14:19:36

Did you know this?
From NORMAL mode, to undo type u, to redo press Ctrl + r

2024-09-10 14:19:36

:Ni!

2024-09-09 14:19:36

Tip of the day
:help UserGettingBored

2024-09-07 20:29:57

Vim is super useful! Try this?
From COMMAND mode, to open a new horizontal split type split <optional file>

2024-09-06 20:30:00

In vim:
:help bar

2024-09-05 20:29:57

This vim tip may be useful
From NORMAL mode, to correct a word (regardless of the cursor position) type ciw

2024-09-03 20:29:57

Quit vim by typing ESC, :q, ENTER. Also, try this:
From NORMAL mode, type 'guu' or 'gUU' to make the entire current line lowercase or uppercase, respectively.

2024-09-02 20:29:57

Try this in vim
To enable syntax highlighting in vim (based on the file's extension like .py or .html), type the command ':syntax on'. Add ':syntax on' to your .vimrc to set it permanently.

2024-09-01 20:29:57

In vim:
Use u in vim to undo the last operation

2024-08-30 20:29:57

Vim is super useful! Try this?
Vim can do word completion! If there's a word that you use often in your document but can't remember how to spell it, start the word and press Ctrl+P to give suggestions based on previous usage of the word.

2024-08-29 20:29:57

Vim is super useful! Try this?
From NORMAL mode, to move to the beginning and end of the line type 0 and $ respectively

2024-08-26 20:30:01

From NORMAL mode, to move to the beginning and end of the line type 0 and $ respectively