Month: January 2021

We recently learned about position-based ways to navigate and reason about text. While these coordinate motions are a broad way […]

[Note: “Alternative” Vim users (e.g. Emacs/Evil users), skip to the bottom] Today we’re going to do something a little different. […]

Although you can do a lot just with verbs like c, d, and y combined with the various nouns, you […]

We saw that common Vim navigations are based on structure, while others are based on search. Still others are based […]

While words, lines and paragraphs give us a way to refer to text in general, often, these “linguistic” nouns aren’t […]

Usually, Vim’s linguistic commands operate on a context inferred from the position of the cursor. But sometimes you may want […]

Nouns commonly refer to objects (“cat”, “house”), but Vim nouns typically indicate navigations in connection with some object and aren’t […]

While many editors have “hotkeys” that do specific things (like C-c to copy, C-f for find), in Vim you typically […]

i / I — insert before cursor / before beginning of linea / A — insert or “append” after cursor […]

Just as English and Japanese are languages to describe the rich world we live in, so is Vim a language […]