Which term(s) do you like for describing regular Vim (not Neovim)?

“every other editor began to feel like it had a layer of padding between me and the code.”

https://caio.ca/blog/a-love-letter-to-neovim

#Vim #Neovim

y'>p works too I guess!

RE: https://pouet.chapril.org/@sroccaserra/116566214460290854

For the ex-averse, you can also do this by jumping to the start of the yanked text:

yP'<

or to the end of the putted text (which I think matches the ex-command’s behaviour more precisely):

yP']

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@djchateau/116042359765721346

As a programmer, I have never in my life found myself “SSH'd into a compromised Linux server during a penetration test”, but most of the techniques in this—excellent—article are way more broadly applicable than that specific context.

#Vimovember Day 13: Marks

Vim's uppercase marks aren't limited to being used on the fly to mark places you can jump to in the buffers you're currently working on. They can also be used as long-lived global bookmarks.

These days, whatever I'm working on, if at any time I type   `T   , then #Vim will instantly teleport me to a list I keep in a TODO.txt file, because a few years ago I dropped an uppercase mark at the top with    mT   .

Can't remember how many deletions ago the text you want to paste was? Take a rough guess using Price is Right rules (don't go over) or just paste from the "1 register by typing   "1p   . If you guessed wrong, then press   u   to remove the incorrect paste and then hit   .   to increment the register you're accessing and re-paste. Each time you hit   .
   the next register up will be used.

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#Vimovember Day 11: Registers

Whenever you delete a line or more, Vim saves the deleted text in the "1 register.

Which might not sound that exciting till you wonder what happens to what was prevously in that register. It is bumped up into the "2 register! And whatever was already in *there* is moved to the "3 register.

So your most recent 9 deletions are always available to be putted back into your buffer.

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Move your cursor to the start of Pie, and then enter insert mode and type Hot Apple. Then, without leaving insert mode, type CTRL-G j. Bam! Now you're still in insert mode, but your cursor is in the correct place to immediately type Chocolate.

Vim even helpfully breaks the undo sequence when you use it, so the additions to the two lines can be undone separately.

(CTRL-G k   does basically the same thing, but moving the cursor up instead of down. Even more niche!)
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#Vimovember Day 10: Insert Tricks (obscure) №1

The insert "special special" key sequence   CTRL-G j    is probably my least frequently used Vim command (that I do nevertheless sometimes use).

Its :help is perhaps overly terse: "cursor one line down, insert start column". So imagine instead you want to change this:

- Pie
- Cake

Into this:

- Hot Apple Pie
- Chocolate Cake

…and for some reason you want to use the least possible number of keystrokes to do so. Vim has you covered! 1/2

https://eieio.games/blog/bad-apple-with-regex-in-vim/ #Vim

** also works in a bunch of places in #Vim.

e.g.
`:vimgrep /needle/ **/*.md` will search all markdown files within the pwd on down for “needle”
`:n **/*.txt` will add all text files to the args list and open the first one.

https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/113646600470227333

If you only need the file-jumping behaviour, a handful of lines in your vimrc will suffice:

https://github.com/sedm0784/vimconfig/blob/master/vimfiles/vimrc#L621-L629

https://hachyderm.io/@VimLinks/113316840795828274

#Vim

Blogpost highlighting Vim's versatility by showcasing a couple of ways you can solve problems with its regular expressions: https://austinletson.com/posts/express_yourself_in_vim/ #regex #Vim

#Vim poll:

I wrote a new #Vim plugin over Easter. It is called Rainbow Trails and it adds a touch of MAGIC to your motions.

https://normalmo.de/posts/rainbow-trails/

#Vim macros aren't strictly speaking a programming language, so they don't have the concept of an `if` block. But does this mean you can't record one with a conditional in it?

https://normalmo.de/posts/macro_conditional/

I added an explanation of how my #Vim editing solution to #AdventOfCode Day 4 Part 2 works. It's pretty straightforward really:

https://gist.github.com/sedm0784/3648d27abb000f181f43e3893f4ea5c9#file-day-4-part-2

Not sure how much longer I'll be able to keep up with #AdventOfCode.
Although it's starting to see like all the challenges will be about text processing, and therefore well suited to solving with #Vim edit commands, they do seem to be getting a bit trickier. Not sure I can keep up!

I actually had an even more arcane and wonderful version of this that I'm pretty sure was correct, but after I left it running for several hours it became clear that it wasn't going to finish before the heat death of the universe (it's still running) so I came up with the much more sensible version above.

Incredibly, the reason the previous version was so convoluted was technical debt! It was based on an even earlier and even slower version and so did some unnecessary stuff.