Category: A Vimlike Fluency

[In tribute to Bram Moolenaar, 1961 – 3 August 2023, creator of Vim. The undo tree was one of the […]

Acknowledgements The original recipient of these tips was Ariana Promessi, who also edited and contributed to the final versions on […]

Having returned from that one-dimensional land of Ex, we now know that it is another way of looking at our […]

Imagine if you had to edit a document that you couldn’t see. All you could do was ask specific questions […]

They say that names are the beginning of abstraction. Giving something a name allows us to hold it in our […]

As we speak the Vim language, we come to have a renewed appreciation for the great diversity of things that […]

The signature of Vim-style editing is operating in terms of high-level abstractions in the world of text like words, paragraphs […]

We’ve learned to describe, navigate, and manipulate text with simple combinations of verbs, nouns, and quantifiers. Now let’s take it […]

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. […]