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Re:Vim GIFs by macromaniac on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @08:41PM (#12126055)
>I think I can edit and navigate through text as fast as Vim users, using the native OS text editing hotkeys.

I had to add 200 textboxes to a wpf form two weeks ago. Took me 60 seconds to generate the boilerplate with vim. If you can do it in under 5 minutes in notepad I'd be impressed, here's something similar to the data I was given: http://pastebin.com/Y7hyi2by

note: a) you can do this in excel with stringconcat, and b) the project could have been better designed to prevent the boilerplate but that was outside of my control

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Re:Vim GIFs by Veedrac on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @11:05PM (#12126587)
FYI, took me like 20 in Sublime Text.

1. Select lines. Shift-Ctrl-End, Alt-l, Home.

2. Type up to the first quote.

3. Move 3 words along. Ctrl-Right, Ctrl-Right, Ctrl-Right.

4. Second quote, comma.

5. Go to start of next word. Ctrl-Right, Ctrl-Left. It's also easy to normalize spacing at this point if you just hold shift then press space.

6. Type "StatusType."

7. Press End, type ");".

Most of the time was spent in point 2.

Admittedly Alt-l isn't OS-native, but multiple cursors are so useful that you kind'a learn to assume them.

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