Tag: vim tip of the day

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 […]

In most editors, writing things is as simple as pressing the corresponding keys on your keyboard. But in Vim, pressing […]

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

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