Vim

Today I discovered these two Vim flags: vim -w log.txt file vim -s log.txt file The -w flag sends all keystrokes in your session to log.txt. The -s loads Vim and replays all the keystroke back onto that file. ...

Longtime Vim users know the vimtutor program, which teaches you Vim in Vim. Vim 9.2 shipped with a new :Tutor command that improves on this. :Tutor ...

Vim-tiny is a great choice for remote server work. ...

I have a Vim normal mode mapping, and I don’t know where it comes from. My Vim config, a plugin, somewhere else? nmap shows me the mapping: :nmap gsp n gsp * 1z= And verbose nmap shows me where it comes from: :verbose nmap gsp n gsp * 1z= Last set from ~/.vimrc line 111 The setting is coming from inside the .vimrc!

In Vim Normal mode, * searches forward for the next occurrence of word. But what goes back? ...

Today, I’d like to dive deeper into a part of my practice: using a persisted text file for jotting things down. In this post, I’ll explain the ‘why’ behind this technique, and provide an updated version of it. ...

Today I’d like to share a small part of my practice: using a persisted scratchpad text file for jotting things down. ...

My development environment depends on several processes running. Here’s how I’ve scripted this setup. ...

I write each post for this blog in Vim. Writing in the terminal makes me feel like a programmer, even when I’m not specifically programming. In this post, I’ll share how I spellcheck in Vim. ...

I use Vim’s spell feature when writing blog posts. Very often, the first suggestion it makes is the one that I choose. Consider a word like ‘Rubysit.’ My dictionary contains the word ‘Rubyist’ (naturally) and that’s what Vim spell is going to suggest to me first. For transposition errors like this I’d like to skip the word picker when possible. To automatically choose the first suggestion, in normal mode put your cursor over the word and type 1z=.