Tag Archives: Vim
Vim Tip: using "paste" to avoid the staircase effect
If you're working in Vim and paste something into the terminal, sometimes you'll get a "staircase" effect where each line is progressively spaced farther outward, like so:
line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4
Obviously, this isn't usually desirable.
To correct this, you can enable paste to prevent the staircase effect. In command mode, [...]
Vim 401: Extending Vim and More
Now that you've learned your way around Vim, I wanted to focus the last piece in the series on extending Vim with scripts and plugins, and some other features that users should be aware of.
If you've been following this series so far, you know how to move around in Vim, setting up mappings and abbreviations, [...]
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Vim 301: Getting Adept at Vim
If you've read and worked with the previous two tutorials on Vim, you're probably getting reasonably comfortable with the editor. At this point, you should be able to get around very nicely. This time around, I'd like to look at some more advanced features and demonstrate briefly how to set up a Vim configuration file, [...]
/usr/bin/links -date="Friday, November 27"
Hope all the folks in the U.S. had a great holiday, and the rest of the Internet enjoyed a break from all of us in the U.S. while we were away from the computers having entirely too much food. Some good links today on technology, politics, and productivity.
Ymacs — an in-browser implementation of Emacs. Aside [...]
Posted in Browsers, Linkage, Open Source Also tagged emacs, firefox, legislation, mutt, Politics, productivity, thunderbird Leave a comment
Vim 201: An Intermediate Guide to Vim
Ready to boost your Vim skills? Many use Vim, but don't make use of nearly all the features. In this guide, we'll take a look at some of the intermediate features offered by Vim, including abbreviations, word completion, and editing multiple documents in the same Vim session.
In the previous installment I took a look at [...]
Vim 101: A Beginner's Guide to Vim
Ever wanted to learn Vim, but weren't sure how to start? No problem. We have you covered! This will be the first of a four-part (possibly longer) series covering how to use Vim and where to start using the world's best text editor.
Note that this is an article explicitly for beginners new to Vim. If [...]
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