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🦋 vim

I am using vim as my primary editor at the new job, and digging it. I've used it a fair amount before but never really enough to give me incentive to become a power user. Today I discovered by accident that pressing '*' in command mode will find the next instance of the word which the cursor is currently inside -- a radically useful feature, something I have cause to do many times every hour -- it is ctrl-F3 in Visual Studio's editor. (Also I figured out that i can paste in xterm -- my lack of a middle button was stymieing me, but it turns out shift-Ins works.)

vim blurs the distinction between command mode and insertion mode a little bit, in ways that I find totally useful. I always hated not being able to move the cursor around while I was editing.

Update: Speaking of blurring the line between command mode and insertion mode, here is a line for .vimrc that I find extremely useful:

This will allow you to delete existing text (using backspace or del) while you are in insertion mode, and to backspace over line separations.

posted evening of Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

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