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Vim ​

The best text editing experience you will ever get. It is worth learning it as you will start thinking about text editing differently.

I use VSCode with vim bindings as my main code editor. I also use vim bindings for any apps that deals with texts like Obsidan or Sublime Text. Vim bindings often mean modal bindings, i.e. I use Vimari to move inside Safari browser faster.

Neovim is modern version of vim and my vimrc can be found here. And here are all the plugins I have setup with it.

It switches between Ayu Light and Ayu Mirage themes as I change between macOS appearances.

Ayu Light

Ayu Mirage

I also use a little trick where I change the cursor from thin block in insert mode to underline when in normal mode. This lets me quickly know which mode I am in. I do same in VSCode as that's my main editor to write code in. I do look into new vim plugins for inspiration for plugins to build in VSCode.

This & this are nice overviews of how you can build your vimrc from scratch.

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Code ​

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" Insert text in the end of each line
" s/ - substitute.
" $ - the end of the line.
" / - change it to.
" , - a comma.
:%s/$/,
" Insert text in the end of each line
" s/ - substitute.
" $ - the end of the line.
" / - change it to.
" , - a comma.
:%s/$/,
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" Lowercase line
Vu
" Lowercase line
Vu
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" Find char backwards
F<char>
" Find char backwards
F<char>
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" Delete backwards until char
dT<char>
" Delete backwards until char
dT<char>
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" Visually select until char
v/<char><return>
" Visually select until char
v/<char><return>
viml
" Delete all lines in file
:%d
" Delete all lines in file
:%d
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" Yank two inner words
" Yanks first and second words (with the trailing space) in the unnamed register
y2aw
" Yank two inner words
" Yanks first and second words (with the trailing space) in the unnamed register
y2aw
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" Delete until start of line
d0
" Delete until start of line
d0
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" Yank entire file
:%y+
" Yank entire file
:%y+
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" Select entire block
Vat
" Select entire block
Vat
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" Visually select until end of line
v$
" Visually select until end of line
v$
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" Visually select paragraph or function
V}
" Visually select paragraph or function
V}
viml
" See whats in a buffer
" See insides of q buffer
:echo @q
" See whats in a buffer
" See insides of q buffer
:echo @q
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" See registers
:registers
" See registers
:registers
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" Delete until end of file
VGx
" Delete until end of file
VGx
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" Visually select block
V%
" Visually select block
V%
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" Start recording macro
" Record to register d
qd
" Start recording macro
" Record to register d
qd
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" Delete char under cursor
x
" Delete char under cursor
x
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" Yank inside tag. Can yank an XML tag for example
yat
" Yank inside tag. Can yank an XML tag for example
yat
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" Make multi line search. https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Search_across_multiple_lines
" Will carry over to new line
\_s
" Make multi line search. https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Search_across_multiple_lines
" Will carry over to new line
\_s
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" Inclusive search
/foo/e
" Inclusive search
/foo/e
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" Delete until searched string. Won't delete string itself.
d/string
" Delete until searched string. Won't delete string itself.
d/string
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" Search and replace
:%s/<search>/<replace>/g
" Search and replace
:%s/<search>/<replace>/g
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" Run command on startup
" Run ':Goyo' on startup. Put it in .vimrc
autocmd VimEnter * Goyo"
" Run command on startup
" Run ':Goyo' on startup. Put it in .vimrc
autocmd VimEnter * Goyo"
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" Insert text at start of each line in file
" Insert // at start of each line in file
:%s!^!//!
" Insert text at start of each line in file
" Insert // at start of each line in file
:%s!^!//!
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" Replay last macro
@@
" Replay last macro
@@
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" Delete until character
df<char>
" Delete until character
df<char>
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" Centre current line
zz
" Centre current line
zz
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" Put results of command into a register
" In normal mode, will put results of d$ command into _ (black hole register)
"_d$
" Put results of command into a register
" In normal mode, will put results of d$ command into _ (black hole register)
"_d$
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" Run macro on whole file
:%normal @x " will run macro x
" Run macro on whole file
:%normal @x " will run macro x