Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi? (2007)

Re:Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi? (2007) by rgoulter on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @02:01AM (#29469762)

Vim's keymap has a wide variety of 'text objects'.

Reiterating point 3 from the article: e.g. if the cursor is at | in:

  printf("Hello |World\n");

With vim, you could manipulate the text in different ways by using different motions, e.g.:

`db` would give `printf("World\n");` (b for backwards),

`de` would give `printf("Hello \n");` (e for end-of-word),

`di"` would give `printf("");` (inside `"`),

`di(` would give `printf();` (inside `(`),

or instead of deleting, some actions could be useful, like changing to uppercase: e.g.

`gUi"` would give `printf("HELLO WORLD\n");`

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Re:Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi? (2007) by szszrk on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @08:04AM (#29471981)

Didn't realize I could do `di"`... that's so neat.

I always at least whip through such articles about vim as there may be something I don't use daily, but could. There always is such a thing.

I love to use all the zero-configuration things that are already present in Vi/Vim at work. IDE's are cool for devs or people who do everything from a stable workstation. I rarely have such comfort, jumping from one server to another, from one image to another. And Vi or Vim are always there. Thanks for all those hints.

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Re:Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi? (2007) by WithinReason on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @08:16AM (#29472121)

For VSCode users:

ctrl+backspace: `printf("World\n");`

ctrl+delete: `printf("Hello \n");`

alt+shift+right, alt+shift+right, delete: `printf();`

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Re:Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi? (2007) by totony on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @08:32PM (#29492778)

Or install the vim emulator plugin. It's not perfect but it does a lot

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