[GRLUG] Vim Group? Editors and IDEs

[Bob Kline]

Good point about v and V.  Many of
the commands have lower and upper
case versions for above-below a line,
left or right of a position, etc.  x deletes
characters to the right, X to the left.
And you can place a number before
most to get multiple instances. e.g.,
30x deletes 30 characters to the right,
20yy yanks 20 lines, and the p and P
you mention.

But still, one needs to know just a
relatively few commands, and the behavior
above, to really roar through an
ASCII file.

Registers can be handy, but quickly
get unwieldy because they are labeled
by a letter.  I rarely use them.

    -- Bob



On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 4:23 PM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org>wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 03:00:09PM -0400, Bob Kline wrote:
> > vim UG?
> >
> > I'm curious, how much of vim do most people actually use?
>
> Enough to get the job done.  :-)
>
> > I've been using vi for 30 years, and I doubt I use more than two dozen
> > commands. I'm guessing that 99% of the work gets done with maybe 5% or
> > less of the features of vi - now vim.
>
> If `v' and 'V' are two separate commands, I guess I use about 50 or so
> regularly.  That's plenty.  I frequently use more obscure (I think)
> commands such as `gqap' (paragraph reformatter).
>
> > * Open and close a file.  Maybe close it with :q! if the file has been
> > mangled.  Maybe write the file out now and then with :w
> >
> > *  yy or Nyy to yank a line or lines.
> >
> > * p to put some lines in place.
>
> Or `P' to paste above the current line.  ;-)
>
> > * a, i, A, and I to add some stuff.
> >
> > * ^ and $ to position at the beginning or end fo a line.
> >
> > * cw or Ncw to change a word or words.
> >
> > * dd, dw, D, x, X, to remove some stuff.
> >
> > * :r file to, well, read in a file at a specific place.
> >
> > * :1,$s/string1/string2/g to replace something everywhere in a file.
> >
> > * / and ?  to find something, and n to find another occurrence.
> >
> > Even that much seems to get one a long way.  On rare occasions I've
> > used buffers, edited multiple files, etc.
> >
> > What other things do people find handy?
>
> See `gqap' above.  It's useful for reformatting an email that is ten
> characters wide and 100 lines high.  ;-)  When I edit LaTeX in kile I
> use line wrapping.  That really stinks in vim, though, so when I edit
> the same file in vim I use this command to insert line breaks for ease
> of editing (it makes no difference to LaTeX, however).  If I'm doing a
> block of paragraphs the ol' `.' repeat command comes in quite handy.
>
>                           I also like `ce'.
>                          Guess what it does?
>                           (This is a hint.)
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