I just googled something I’ve always wanted to know how to do in vim, and was surprised how quickly I found the answer. In vim, there are separate modes for searching and commands. This generally works well as they have separate completion buffers and since I do them a lot, it keeps my command history [...]
I find vim’s :lcd command to be quite useful. For a long time I didn’t use it, mainly because I didn’t understand how it works. First, using it is simple. It works just like :cd. You type :lcd path/to/directory in command mode. The path is relative to the current directory, so :lcd .., :lcd ~/Desktop, [...]
I like using the excellent FuzzyFinder plugin for vim. It’s usefulness is heavily dependent on keeping the current directory what I want, though, because otherwise I could do a lot of drilling. I found that I needed a better way of changing directories. What I wanted most of the time was a way to change [...]
I used to dread having to search backward in vim, because that meant scrunching my right pinky and ring finger next to each other to hit ?. So I remapped it. I used cc because I don’t use cc to change lines—I use S for that (it does the same thing). It’s much easier for [...]
In an earlier post, I said that I am no longer going to deny myself the pleasure of dabbling in different editors. It was my interpretation of the “use one editor; use it well” mantra I got from the pragmatic programmers. It was probably a misinterpretation of it. They also would recommend using the best [...]