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January 26, 2021January 29, 2021

Vim Tip of the Day: Search

A Vimlike Fluency by sid2 comments

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

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January 24, 2021February 8, 2021

Vim Tip of the Day: Quantifiers

A Vimlike Fluency by sid2 comments

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

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January 23, 2021March 10, 2023

Vim Tip of the Day: The Truth About Nouns

A Vimlike Fluency by sid6 comments

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

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January 22, 2021February 5, 2021

Vim Tip of the Day: Actually Doing Things (Verbs)

A Vimlike Fluency by sid1 comment

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

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January 21, 2021February 25, 2021

Vim Tip of the Day: Writing Things

A Vimlike Fluency by sid5 comments

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

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January 21, 2021December 9, 2021

Vim Tip of the Day: Introducing the Nouns

A Vimlike Fluency by sid2 comments

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

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January 21, 2021August 8, 2023

A Vimlike Fluency: Daily Tips for Learning Vim

A Vimlike Fluency by sid8 comments

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one does not simply learn Vim. Vim’s learning curve is notoriously steep, reputedly […]

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December 27, 2020July 23, 2024

Turn your .emacs.d Into an Emacs Distribution (with Straight.el)

Emacs by sid2 comments

[TL;DR: skip to the steps] I finally decided to follow the recent trend towards using straight.el for package management instead […]

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December 7, 2020September 7, 2024

Clutter-free Projectile Search

Emacs by sid0 comments

If you’re like me, you’ve been patiently enduring cluttered projectile search results for a long time. Results from HTML files […]

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