Best of Vim Tips

Re:Best of Vim Tips by dllthomas on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @12:37PM (#7945064)

Generally in vim, if you're pressing a key over and over, that's a smell that there's room for improvement there.

In addition to counting motions, other great options for getting around include:

    % jump to the matching brace/bracket/paren
    ( jump back a "sentence"
    ) jump forward a "sentence"
    { jump back a "paragraph"
    } jump forward a "paragraph"

Also, getting around by searching can be hugely worthwhile.

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Re:Best of Vim Tips by rbonvall on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @05:07PM (#7946758)

Also:

    n jump to the next occurrence of the last search
    N  "   "   "  previous   "   "   "   "   "   "
    * jump to the next occurrence of the word under cursor
    #  "   "   "  previous   "   "   "   "   "   "

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Re:Best of Vim Tips by dllthomas on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @05:13PM (#7946798)

Yes! Also, ^R^W (ctrl-r, ctrl-w) when you're at the : prompt will drop in the current word under the cursor. Which is also quite useful in keybindings.

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Re:Best of Vim Tips by Anthony-G on Thursday June 26, 2014 @05:03AM (#7948673)

Thanks. That's a great tip. I've always yanked the word that I wanted and then used Ctrl-R" to paste it on Vim's command line. This is much better.

I'm now off to read "cmdline.txt" (:help Command-line).

BTW, I just accidentally closed my browser tab (latest version of Firefox) by hitting Ctrl-W when I wanted to delete the previous word in this textbox. That used to drive me mad but when Firefox restored the tab, it also restored the text I'd typed. :)

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