Timestamps: 0:24 - Relative line numbers 2:26 - Mapping Esc to Caps Lock 3:22 - :norm 4:41 - C-v (similar to :norm A & I) 6:04 - in(de)crement numbers with C-a / C-x 8:36 - using o to change visual select direction 9:24 - % for jump to matching pair: ({[ 11:04 - i / a (inside / outisde) 13:55 - W vs w 15:51 - Invoking external scripts/binaries 19:08 - Creating (dynamic) snippets 20:25 - Using netrw/fzf/search
highly recommend placing some segments and timestamps on these videos, as you rarely have everything being new for Vim users. That way we can easily click to those points that might apply.
Great video, nicely done. Didn't know about o for adjusting the visual selection. I've always cancelled and started from scratch when I screwed up. No longer!
One very helpful keybinding in vim, is Ctrl+R in insert mode, when pressing it you are able to paste directly from some register. I was finding my self a lot of the times, just pressing escape to go into normal mode, and press p (to paste) and i again to move to insert mode. It is very helpful...
Something else really cool you can do in this vein is Ctrl + o while in insert mode. It will take you to normal mode for a single command then jump you right back to insert mode. I use "Ctrl + o, p" all the time.
Yep! Gamechanger!... And here I was q-macro record such things and then @q all the lines or do some fancy recursive things. This makes things so much more easy!
Ooh! I like the snippets, piping to a command, and :norm. Something cool I learned recently was the jumplist. Ctrl+o goes to the cursor's previous position, ctrl+i goes to the next. Some commands, like moving a certain number of lines ("3k"), don't get added to the jumplist, so this incentivises using other movement & search commands.
Set environment variable "EDITOR=vim" or whatever you like Write some command in your bash terminal and press (CTRL + X & CTRL + E) This allows you to modify the command you want to write by opening up the command in your "$EDITOR" Especially useful when writing commands that you want to split over multiple lines, but still be executed as if it was all in one command. Or just want to get some syntax highlighting in your favorite text editor. Most people might already know this... but if you don't, you're welcome.
Vertical visual mode with the multi cursor was the only thing I saw an emacs user have that I wanted, and vim turns out to have it too. It's such a nice experience using that. Absolute chad developers.
(use-package multiple-cursors :ensure t) (global-set-key (kbd "C-c m c") 'mc/edit-lines) ; Add cursor to each line in the region (global-set-key (kbd "C-c m n") 'mc/mark-next-like-this) ; Add a cursor to the next occurrence (global-set-key (kbd "C-c m p") 'mc/mark-previous-like-this) ; Add a cursor to the previous occurrence (global-set-key (kbd "C-c m a") 'mc/mark-all-like-this) ; Add cursors to all occurrences To create a vertical selection or multiple cursors on consecutive lines: Highlight the region vertically (using C-SPC and moving the cursor down). Run mc/edit-lines (bound to C-c m c above), which places a cursor on each selected line. After activating multiple cursors, any edits you make will apply to all cursors simultaneously.
Im watching this by myself in my car and you had me yelling "WHAT?!" and dropping my jaw like half a dozen times. Fantastic stuff absolutely taking some notes on this
Nice tips, subscribed! One suggestion for such videos: you need to code in the memory of these things otherwise anyone will forget them 5 minutes after watching! The way I remember these is how the creators of vim motions intended it: by looking at the meaning of the letters, such [o] for [O]ther end of highlighted text, and [a] for [A]round.
2:59 Mapping escape to caps lock is pretty easy on every major operating system. Under MacOS its under Settings/Keyboard/Modifier Keys and under Windows you can install PowerToys by Microsoft and do it under Keyboard manager/Remap a key. I highly recommend doing this.
Been using vi/vim/neovim since 1992 and still learn new things from this kind of video, o especially. What are you using for the markdown headings to be shown at the top of your screen as you scroll down? This was in the section about relative line numbers.
@@SebastianDaschnerIT for whatever reason I was able to install 'wellle/context.vim' (Lazy) but couldn't get it working with an example Markdown file (such as you demonstrated). Stumbled across 'nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter-context' and installed that instead. All sorted now.
I like automatic session saving, that's the big one I've learned recently. Didn't get into it until it was automatic in some neovim config I was using. It always saves your session on exit, and when starting vim there's an *option* to resume the session by pressing a keybinding - and it knows which session based on which directory you are in.
One of my favourites has to be a way to "encase" text in quotes/braces/etc: replace the text either after selecting in visual or with motions, i.e. cw {" " "} --- the " after ctrl+r pastes the text you just cut from the " register.
Function, class, conditional and other programming specific objects require treesitter or something similar. But you can get away with { or B, and ( or b in vim. Quite helpful. See :help objects
I've know almost all of them for a while, but these are some great tips! For me, I had to turn off relative numbers because it was not great for pair programming with a colleague when they had to point out at what line should a change go, etc, but overall is a nice feature that I like One thing I learned from this was the `o` in visual mode, that's actually pretty neat I think I might start using that instead of thinking about where to start the highlighting from and to, everyday you learn something new in vim 😅
@@inertia_dagger That I know but not what I meant. For example, when I'm pair programming with someone and they want to suggest a change at a particular line. With relativenumber enabled, they won't be able to tell me which line in the code to go to and might get confused by the numbering (that I would understand). It was just easier to keep relativenumber disabled for the session or entirely so that my colleagues can better direct me 😅
Around 2:06 timestamp -- is that folding, based on markdown H1, H2, H3 elements? That looks much nicer than it is on my system. I'm curious, what's in your .vimrc to get it to look like that. Using "o" to change where the cursor is in a visual selection -- that's so cool! I didn't know that.
How do you lock lines at the top and have their line number stay relative to bottom window?. If I use split then both windows' line number stay relative to their windows.
also a nice tip about relative number configure you vimrc so when you are in insert mode it switches to relative number and when you are in normal mode switch to numbers this will help
I've been using vim for years and knew I knew about invoking with ! from command mode but the fact that you can replace the contents in place with the output blew my mind.
Nice video, for fuzzy finding I personally use fzf-lua and Telescope, I have a script that spawns fzf-lua if I'm in my home directory (since way faster) and Telescope otherwise (with the smart-open extension that gives you a mix of old opened files, ones from the current directory etc, all of that weighted). But I recently discovered that you can have a whole "real" (like ranger or vifm) file manager inside of neovim, I'm thus now also using the yazi file manager inside of neovim, you can do everything from within it, cd, use zoxide, fzf, searching, and ofc copy/paste/cut/rename etc, it can even preview images. But I'm using neovim as an "IDE", so it's pretty much essential to have convenient navigation.
Nice setup. Yes, that's also what I found, when you use Vim as an IDE, you're well-advised to use Neovim with such plugins, esp. good navigation. For me, my (simpler) Vim setup works well
the thing that I use in vim is that, in KDE you can download certain keyboard layouts that have 3rd and 4th layer, and then in keyboard settings select "use caps lock for the third layer" now if I press caps l I get ľ, caps j gives ± and so on this allows for a lot of new potential keybindings, ď for emmet ľ for esc ± and ł for scrolling by line [C-Y and C-E] so now i can move cursor with j k and move screen with caps j k (every press moves the screen by 1 line) also š for :w i only have these right now, but I can add more in the future [oh and also, in kde settings you can make caps mode go on from both shifts being tapped at the same time]
I never liked relative line numbers. I prefer to know what the real line number is and you can do (line number)G anyway, which also works with other phrases like c58G will delete all lines between the current line and line 58 both inclusive and put you in edit mode.
I have relative and absolute numbers, so when I share my screen my team mates can point to the line they want me to go naturally (or in a way they are familiar with).
all is cool thank you but sometime it is hard to see what you pressed. it would be great if pressed combination scrolled up and stay on screen at least 5 last command.
Any line numbers look absolutely ghastly to me. The relative ones even more so. I just have 'set ruler' on so the line/column number is shown only once at the bottom. Having said that, as a user of vi/ex from about 1993,there were surprisingly many good tips in here (albeit more vim features). The increment and selection direction swap especially
Not sure about the name; in oh-my-zsh I'm using the ZSH_THEME="afowler" (but I think with some modifications). I think Vim mainly adopts these. You can check out my Dotfiles, it's all there: github.com/sdaschner/dotfiles
You mean the lines inbetween the example titles that I created to show the contexts? That was just a high number (I think 100 or so), and o for creating a lot of newlines. Or do you mean this context-aware plugin in general? That'd be wellle/vim-context
Windows users - reading the friendly manual: "Since CTRL-V is used to paste, you can't use it to start a blockwise Visual selection. You can use CTRL-Q instead."
I use WSL2 and disable CTRL-V pasting in the terminal window for that exact reason. If you can get in the habit of setting paste to CTRL-SHIFT-V, then I can highly recommend it.
I strongly recommend against remapping of Caps Lock to Escape. When you do eventually switch computers, maybe trying to repair someone elses. Any keyboard remapping is going to make life difficult.
That's right, but thinking in this limitation will sadly prevent you from a lot of optimizations that you can do on your system (starting with the keyboard mapping, over shortcuts, to shell setup). But yes, if portability is important to you, fair enough
@@SebastianDaschnerIT My reality is that I eventually had to physically remove my Caps Lock key after removing the remap in order to stop trying to use it as an Escape key.
still missing things: * multi-cursor * change case of word/letter * how to specify case insensitive search (with / or ?) * paste as replace mode * :z to scroll current line to top is not working at times * sending neovim to background to run some command etc (no, i dont want to use ! exclamation) * move past the last character i.e. at the line end newline char (this often helps with `db`)
Timestamps:
0:24 - Relative line numbers
2:26 - Mapping Esc to Caps Lock
3:22 - :norm
4:41 - C-v (similar to :norm A & I)
6:04 - in(de)crement numbers with C-a / C-x
8:36 - using o to change visual select direction
9:24 - % for jump to matching pair: ({[
11:04 - i / a (inside / outisde)
13:55 - W vs w
15:51 - Invoking external scripts/binaries
19:08 - Creating (dynamic) snippets
20:25 - Using netrw/fzf/search
do the timestamps in the description to the vid and your video would be nicely divided into navigable chapters
@@pypypy4228 The man needs watch-time... ;)
highly recommend placing some segments and timestamps on these videos, as you rarely have everything being new for Vim users. That way we can easily click to those points that might apply.
Has to be the most underrated piece of software ever. I'll never go back.
You think vim is underrated???
i'm sorry
@@flflflflflfl By people who prefer nano.
@@pldvs ok but that's that's like, 7 people
@@flflflflflfl I think you'd be surprised.
Great video, nicely done. Didn't know about o for adjusting the visual selection. I've always cancelled and started from scratch when I screwed up. No longer!
One very helpful keybinding in vim, is Ctrl+R in insert mode, when pressing it you are able to paste directly from some register.
I was finding my self a lot of the times, just pressing escape to go into normal mode, and press p (to paste) and i again to move to insert mode.
It is very helpful...
thanks if it works. will try it next time i get my hands on nvim.
Nice, I like ctrl-o to go back to the last place you jumped from. It's a lot easier than moving from buffer to buffer or setting marks.
thank you!
u is undo ctr+r is redo,
"+p pastes from the clipboard
Something else really cool you can do in this vein is Ctrl + o while in insert mode. It will take you to normal mode for a single command then jump you right back to insert mode. I use "Ctrl + o, p" all the time.
Dude I've been using vim for almost 2 years and you're the first person that's actually taught me something new past the first month of this endeavor.
I've been using vim for 15 years and I learned something new from the video
What the...! I absolutely love that :norm command! I didn't knew it was that easy! Thanks a lot Sebastian.
Yep! Gamechanger!... And here I was q-macro record such things and then @q all the lines or do some fancy recursive things. This makes things so much more easy!
@@pldcanfly I did exactly the same!
true, that :norm blow my mind
Ooh! I like the snippets, piping to a command, and :norm. Something cool I learned recently was the jumplist. Ctrl+o goes to the cursor's previous position, ctrl+i goes to the next. Some commands, like moving a certain number of lines ("3k"), don't get added to the jumplist, so this incentivises using other movement & search commands.
Set environment variable "EDITOR=vim" or whatever you like
Write some command in your bash terminal and press (CTRL + X & CTRL + E)
This allows you to modify the command you want to write by opening up the command in your "$EDITOR"
Especially useful when writing commands that you want to split over multiple lines, but still be executed as if it was all in one command. Or just want to get some syntax highlighting in your favorite text editor.
Most people might already know this... but if you don't, you're welcome.
Yes, been using that in my zsh/vi-mode setup, very helpful!
Got a typo in your previous command (or just want to edit it and run the new command)? Try `fc` to “fix command” using your $FCEDIT editor.
Vertical visual mode with the multi cursor was the only thing I saw an emacs user have that I wanted, and vim turns out to have it too. It's such a nice experience using that. Absolute chad developers.
how multiple cursor?
@@yash1152 how english?
@@levonschaftin3676 not matters for me. u do u. ppl dont respect my-lang, i won't respect theirs. simple-that.
> _"how english?"_
how mad?
(use-package multiple-cursors
:ensure t)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c m c") 'mc/edit-lines) ; Add cursor to each line in the region
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c m n") 'mc/mark-next-like-this) ; Add a cursor to the next occurrence
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c m p") 'mc/mark-previous-like-this) ; Add a cursor to the previous occurrence
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c m a") 'mc/mark-all-like-this) ; Add cursors to all occurrences
To create a vertical selection or multiple cursors on consecutive lines:
Highlight the region vertically (using C-SPC and moving the cursor down).
Run mc/edit-lines (bound to C-c m c above), which places a cursor on each selected line.
After activating multiple cursors, any edits you make will apply to all cursors simultaneously.
Im watching this by myself in my car and you had me yelling "WHAT?!" and dropping my jaw like half a dozen times. Fantastic stuff absolutely taking some notes on this
I’ve been using Vim for the past few weeks, and you’ve saved me months or even years of learning. Thank you, Sebastian!
Nice tips, subscribed! One suggestion for such videos: you need to code in the memory of these things otherwise anyone will forget them 5 minutes after watching! The way I remember these is how the creators of vim motions intended it: by looking at the meaning of the letters, such [o] for [O]ther end of highlighted text, and [a] for [A]round.
2:59 Mapping escape to caps lock is pretty easy on every major operating system. Under MacOS its under Settings/Keyboard/Modifier Keys and under Windows you can install PowerToys by Microsoft and do it under Keyboard manager/Remap a key. I highly recommend doing this.
Also on Linux I recommend evremap, it's a great piece of software and is really easy to configure.
Long time vim user and I learned a couple new tricks. Great video. Subbed. Look forward to seeing more of your videos.
Another nice one with some of the text-objects (i.e. va", vi
Oh nice, thanks!
Been using vi/vim/neovim since 1992 and still learn new things from this kind of video, o especially.
What are you using for the markdown headings to be shown at the top of your screen as you scroll down? This was in the section about relative line numbers.
That's the 'wellle/context.vim' plugin
@@SebastianDaschnerIT for whatever reason I was able to install 'wellle/context.vim' (Lazy) but couldn't get it working with an example Markdown file (such as you demonstrated).
Stumbled across 'nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter-context' and installed that instead. All sorted now.
I like automatic session saving, that's the big one I've learned recently. Didn't get into it until it was automatic in some neovim config I was using. It always saves your session on exit, and when starting vim there's an *option* to resume the session by pressing a keybinding - and it knows which session based on which directory you are in.
Didn't know about o for switching direction of selection
Really cool tips and some I haven’t seen before but also very practical for common use, thanks!
I really like having it set so that relative line numbers turns off in insert mode, and back on in edit mode.
One of my favourites has to be a way to "encase" text in quotes/braces/etc: replace the text either after selecting in visual or with motions, i.e. cw {" " "} --- the " after ctrl+r pastes the text you just cut from the " register.
...noice 😮
Couldn't you just use "p" to paste the text instead as by default it pasted from the " register?
@@SlothWindGod You can, but you have to exit insert mode and navigate back two characters before pressing "p". About the same.
@@ElPikacupacabra ctrl + o to perform a command from insert mode means you don't have to navigate out of it
@@SlothWindGod You're not in the correct position I think 🤔. But many ways to skin a cat
Had no idea about o or using ex mode with . on a visual selection.
You can use i/a with a lot of stuff:
f = function
p = paragraph
t = HTML tag
And probably a ton I don't know about
f requires treesitter and neovim- I think?
@@nahblueyes
Function, class, conditional and other programming specific objects require treesitter or something similar.
But you can get away with { or B, and ( or b in vim. Quite helpful. See :help objects
Very nice advanced level tips. Thanks a lot for sharing!
I didn't know about increments. Great tip, thank you!
I've know almost all of them for a while, but these are some great tips!
For me, I had to turn off relative numbers because it was not great for pair programming with a colleague when they had to point out at what line should a change go, etc, but overall is a nice feature that I like
One thing I learned from this was the `o` in visual mode, that's actually pretty neat I think I might start using that instead of thinking about where to start the highlighting from and to, everyday you learn something new in vim 😅
you can execute your line number in ex mode, for example
:141
would go to line 141
You can also type `141G` :)
@@inertia_dagger That I know but not what I meant. For example, when I'm pair programming with someone and they want to suggest a change at a particular line. With relativenumber enabled, they won't be able to tell me which line in the code to go to and might get confused by the numbering (that I would understand).
It was just easier to keep relativenumber disabled for the session or entirely so that my colleagues can better direct me 😅
@@creativenull hmm, you could disable relative line numbers in pair programming with :set nornu
@@inertia_dagger yup exactly!
sessions and copy-paste to/from clipboard (I don't have clipboard support) has been my newest tools for vim
Fantastic video, Sebastian! Really interesting with some great tips!
Loved this! Thank you Sebastian, awesome content
Around 2:06 timestamp -- is that folding, based on markdown H1, H2, H3 elements? That looks much nicer than it is on my system. I'm curious, what's in your .vimrc to get it to look like that.
Using "o" to change where the cursor is in a visual selection -- that's so cool! I didn't know that.
That *W* is a replacement of my *t*
Tysm mate, gotta use it more often
17:16 neovim already comes with a ":sort' command, in case you didn't already know.
How do you lock lines at the top and have their line number stay relative to bottom window?. If I use split then both windows' line number stay relative to their windows.
norm is a pretty new to me, this is really great to put in to my arsenal
Nice video! I recently learned about the ctrl+f trick in command mode, its usefull
also a nice tip about relative number configure you vimrc so when you are in insert mode it switches to relative number and when you are in normal mode switch to numbers this will help
What plugin do you use for the 'sticky scroll' feature ?
You can use W in ciw as well it does the same thing as cW when youre at the beginning of
I needed these tips, thanks for sharing!
Ctrl-f in command mode allows re-use and editing of previous commands.
I've been using vim for years and knew I knew about invoking with ! from command mode but the fact that you can replace the contents in place with the output blew my mind.
Nice video, for fuzzy finding I personally use fzf-lua and Telescope, I have a script that spawns fzf-lua if I'm in my home directory (since way faster) and Telescope otherwise (with the smart-open extension that gives you a mix of old opened files, ones from the current directory etc, all of that weighted).
But I recently discovered that you can have a whole "real" (like ranger or vifm) file manager inside of neovim, I'm thus now also using the yazi file manager inside of neovim, you can do everything from within it, cd, use zoxide, fzf, searching, and ofc copy/paste/cut/rename etc, it can even preview images.
But I'm using neovim as an "IDE", so it's pretty much essential to have convenient navigation.
Nice setup. Yes, that's also what I found, when you use Vim as an IDE, you're well-advised to use Neovim with such plugins, esp. good navigation. For me, my (simpler) Vim setup works well
Interesting, I'm just using netrw as my file manager in vim.
There is a plugin `fm-nvim` that allows to spawn any predefined program inside a new buffer - lazygit, broot or ranger
the thing that I use in vim is that, in KDE you can download certain keyboard layouts that have 3rd and 4th layer, and then in keyboard settings select "use caps lock for the third layer"
now if I press caps l I get ľ, caps j gives ± and so on
this allows for a lot of new potential keybindings, ď for emmet
ľ for esc
± and ł for scrolling by line [C-Y and C-E] so now i can move cursor with j k and move screen with caps j k (every press moves the screen by 1 line)
also š for :w
i only have these right now, but I can add more in the future [oh and also, in kde settings you can make caps mode go on from both shifts being tapped at the same time]
Interesting. Actually I use "w" and "W" constantly, it's basically one of my most used navigation ways
This was very insightful, thanks
w/W is great, but don’t sleep on b/B for going the other way. o will be a game changer for me. Thank you!
Is this some sort of plugin? I have relative line numbers enabled but don't can't get these sections/subsections stuff to work (2:04)
Yes, it's the 'wellle/context.vim' plugin
I never liked relative line numbers. I prefer to know what the real line number is and you can do (line number)G anyway, which also works with other phrases like c58G will delete all lines between the current line and line 58 both inclusive and put you in edit mode.
Would you consider making an overview of vim plugins that you find most useful in your everyday work? Or have I missed it ?
I have relative and absolute numbers, so when I share my screen my team mates can point to the line they want me to go naturally (or in a way they are familiar with).
How do I set up gvim to automatically load files that were opened when the editor was last closed each time I started it?
How do you lock lines at the top and have the relative line number refer to the bottom window?
Have a look here: github.com/sdaschner/dotfiles/blob/master/.vimrc
Great content, learnt something new
did i knew it already : YES
did i watched it again : YES
all is cool thank you but sometime it is hard to see what you pressed. it would be great if pressed combination scrolled up and stay on screen at least 5 last command.
Thank you for this video! Espanso is a great text expander to check out too!
I'm definitely gonna use that `o` visual mode trick
Nice vídeo. However, I think the dynamic snippets section should have better explanation.. I mean: how to really do it the way you just show us?
Oh ok, what part of it wasn't clear? You use a snippet plugins (I use honza/vim-snippets) and you expand them (per default I think it's )
@@SebastianDaschnerITneeding a plugin was not clear.
i have been using vim for a while but is there any simpler alternative to vscode's "ctrl shift L" command and "ctrl d"?
Basically multicursor
There is, there's multiline select (Ctrl+V), but in Vim, I'd rather go for movements plus re-do (dot . ) or macros
I learned a lot, thanks!
Control Left Bracket is key 27. I use that instead of Escape.
how you did 1:47 the line after 103 # hello this is new to me
What font are you using? it looks nice.
That's JetBrains Mono
a good tip is also have the intent of the comands:
i - inside
a - around
o - other
and so on...
Any line numbers look absolutely ghastly to me. The relative ones even more so. I just have 'set ruler' on so the line/column number is shown only once at the bottom.
Having said that, as a user of vi/ex from about 1993,there were surprisingly many good tips in here (albeit more vim features). The increment and selection direction swap especially
Sweet video dude!
Well you could also use plugins and further enhance everything you do
I map the left arrow key to ESC in insert mode and down to write the file in all modes,
Oh ok, that's an interesting one
Hi Sebastian, thanks for the tips! What is the colorscheme that you are using (is it maybe default vim? I am an nvim user after all...)
Not sure about the name; in oh-my-zsh I'm using the ZSH_THEME="afowler" (but I think with some modifications). I think Vim mainly adopts these. You can check out my Dotfiles, it's all there: github.com/sdaschner/dotfiles
After 25 years of use there are still vim tricks and commands I still don't know.
Can you please tell me, what plugin are you using for creating snippets
It's called vim-snippets: github.com/honza/vim-snippets (though I think I forked it)
Could you please move the keylogger to above you? I think it will be better there.
a in selections stands for "around'.
Use control-[ instead ecs or remap caplocks
Tap caps lock = esc
Hold = ctrl
Really nice ergo imho
Which screen key software are you using?
It's called key-mon
how did you make this split happen at 1:48?
You mean the lines inbetween the example titles that I created to show the contexts? That was just a high number (I think 100 or so), and o for creating a lot of newlines.
Or do you mean this context-aware plugin in general? That'd be wellle/vim-context
@@SebastianDaschnerIT Yes it's the plugin I was curious about! Cheers! Thanks for the tutorials, they are awesome!
Great! i'm more and more closer to know how to exit vim.
Windows users - reading the friendly manual: "Since CTRL-V is used to paste, you can't use it to start a blockwise Visual selection. You can use CTRL-Q instead."
Oh man... isn't Windows fun 🤦♂️ Thanks for pointing that out!
I use WSL2 and disable CTRL-V pasting in the terminal window for that exact reason. If you can get in the habit of setting paste to CTRL-SHIFT-V, then I can highly recommend it.
Good stuff!
Luke Smith would be proud, by far the best vim video I've seen
I still I don’t know how to use (hi syntax) and change the (cursor) and color of (cursor) I don’t like plugin
I strongly recommend against remapping of Caps Lock to Escape. When you do eventually switch computers, maybe trying to repair someone elses. Any keyboard remapping is going to make life difficult.
That's right, but thinking in this limitation will sadly prevent you from a lot of optimizations that you can do on your system (starting with the keyboard mapping, over shortcuts, to shell setup). But yes, if portability is important to you, fair enough
@@SebastianDaschnerIT My reality is that I eventually had to physically remove my Caps Lock key after removing the remap in order to stop trying to use it as an Escape key.
I just use Ctrl+[ instead.
Hello, Sebastian. Can you tell please which OS do you use?
Arch + i3wm
was kinda hoping you'd show how to create the snippets
Have a look at github.com/honza/vim-snippets , it's quite straightforward
to select inside html tag vat 😁
super cool!
Awesome!
this is a great video, but you keystrokes are way to fast
they need to linger a bit bc i can't keep up with them XD
that is all well and good... but how do you exit VIM? can someone just tell me!!!
Pull the plug out of the wall. If on a laptop, wait for 2-12 hrs afterwards.
(Please don't just power off your computer, bad things can happen...)
selection with o goated.
0:28 `set nu rnu`
17:20 vim has its own sort, no?
Oh yes, that's right. I'm just used to the Unix commands, I guess :)
@@SebastianDaschnerIT The moment you bring a pipe to the equation shell is the way to go.
7:23 I feel like I'm flying!! thank you.
for myself:
7:21
8:53
21:09
super coollllllll
I like "jk" =
That's what I had in the beginning as well, but I like having a reachable Esc on my system anyway (hence on Caps Lock)
== i didnt know yet:
* o: switch selection direction
* snippets
* fzf/explorer inside vim
== i already know & use daily/prominently
* relativenumber
* :exe & :norm
* C-v box visual mode
* i/a: in/around
* w/W
* scripts, is it talking about :! ?
== i know but disagree with:
* Mapping Esc to Caps lock
* %: jump to matching: finnicky & unpredictable
still missing things:
* multi-cursor
* change case of word/letter
* how to specify case insensitive search (with / or ?)
* paste as replace mode
* :z to scroll current line to top is not working at times
* sending neovim to background to run some command etc (no, i dont want to use ! exclamation)
* move past the last character i.e. at the line end newline char (this often helps with `db`)
How do I exit vim? 🤣
Of course I know how to exit vim... It's sudo killall vim
Please don't do that. pkill is more portable than killall. On Solaris killall really kills ALL processes, not just vim. :P