Acknowledgements The original recipient of these tips was Ariana Promessi, who also edited and contributed to the final versions on […]
Month: February 2021
Vim Tip of the Day: Aggregate Operations
Having returned from that one-dimensional land of Ex, we now know that it is another way of looking at our […]
A Mind Forever Vimming (Ex Mode)
Imagine if you had to edit a document that you couldn’t see. All you could do was ask specific questions […]
Vim Tip of the Day: Naming Things
They say that names are the beginning of abstraction. Giving something a name allows us to hold it in our […]
Vim Tip of the Day: Saying More (Macros)
As we speak the Vim language, we come to have a renewed appreciation for the great diversity of things that […]
Vim Tip of the Day: Living the High Life
The signature of Vim-style editing is operating in terms of high-level abstractions in the world of text like words, paragraphs […]
Vim Tip of the Day: Phrases
We’ve learned to describe, navigate, and manipulate text with simple combinations of verbs, nouns, and quantifiers. Now let’s take it […]