Philosophical note taking nerd with ADHD. Urgently passionate about saving what remains of earth from global warming, and becoming multi-planetary. He/him.
Macros definitely rock. I only tend to use them when operating on similar patterns of text multiple times in a row.
My preference for movement is to use one of these:
I - insert before first character in current line A - insert after last character in current line 0 - go to first character in current line $ - go to last character in current line [ - move a paragraph up ] - move a paragraph down
I also really enjoy doingf. and then ; afterwards, to move from period to period in a block of (non code) text. The rarely used , is nice to move to the previous result too. Love it!
Vim is a beautiful "language"! Always cool to see more posts on the topic.
I'm not aware of ; or , commands, I dont think (sometimes when I get to a keyboard I'll realize I actually do use the shortcut without knowing it.
I'll have to check them out!
Another problem I have to solve for switching to VIM full time is dropping multiple cursors. For example, a thing I commonly do in other editors is to drop multiple cursors where there is a similar pattern, like ', after each array or list element in many languages.
I suspect macros may be the answer to that problem as well.
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Macros definitely rock. I only tend to use them when operating on similar patterns of text multiple times in a row.
My preference for movement is to use one of these:
I- insert before first character in current lineA- insert after last character in current line0- go to first character in current line$- go to last character in current line[- move a paragraph up]- move a paragraph downI also really enjoy doing
f.and then;afterwards, to move from period to period in a block of (non code) text. The rarely used,is nice to move to the previous result too. Love it!Vim is a beautiful "language"! Always cool to see more posts on the topic.
Thanks for sharing!
I'm not aware of
;or,commands, I dont think (sometimes when I get to a keyboard I'll realize I actually do use the shortcut without knowing it.I'll have to check them out!
Another problem I have to solve for switching to VIM full time is dropping multiple cursors. For example, a thing I commonly do in other editors is to drop multiple cursors where there is a similar pattern, like
',after each array or list element in many languages.I suspect macros may be the answer to that problem as well.