Vim Tips I Wish I Knew Earlier
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- Опубліковано 19 бер 2024
- When starting out your journey with Vim, there are so many things to learn. Over time, you will see which features will stick with you and which ones are helpful in your work. In this video, I’m showing Vim tips that I'm using now, that I wish I knew earlier.
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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
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.
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.
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
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?
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
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
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!
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?
norm is a pretty new to me, this is really great to put in to my arsenal
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.
Fantastic video, Sebastian! Really interesting with some great tips!
Loved this! Thank you Sebastian, awesome content
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.
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!
Didn't know about o for switching direction of selection
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.
I needed these tips, thanks for sharing!
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
This was very insightful, thanks
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` :)
@@wetfloo 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
@@wetfloo yup exactly!
did i knew it already : YES
did i watched it again : YES
Great content, learnt something new
Nice video! I recently learned about the ctrl+f trick in command mode, its usefull
Sweet video dude!
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.
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.
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!
Another nice one with some of the text-objects (i.e. va", vi
Oh nice, thanks!
Thank you for this video! Espanso is a great text expander to check out too!
sessions and copy-paste to/from clipboard (I don't have clipboard support) has been my newest tools for vim
Had no idea about o or using ex mode with . on a visual selection.
I'm definitely gonna use that `o` visual mode trick
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.
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]
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
Interesting. Actually I use "w" and "W" constantly, it's basically one of my most used navigation ways
a in selections stands for "around'.
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
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).
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
How do I set up gvim to automatically load files that were opened when the editor was last closed each time I started it?
Use control-[ instead ecs or remap caplocks
Tap caps lock = esc
Hold = ctrl
Really nice ergo imho
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 )
to select inside html tag vat 😁
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
Hello, Sebastian. Can you tell please which OS do you use?
Arch + i3wm
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)
What font are you using? it looks nice.
That's JetBrains Mono
After 25 years of use there are still vim tricks and commands I still don't know.
Could you please move the keylogger to above you? I think it will be better there.
super coollllllll
Which screen key software are you using?
It's called key-mon
was kinda hoping you'd show how to create the snippets
Have a look at github.com/honza/vim-snippets , it's quite straightforward
Luke Smith would be proud, by far the best vim video I've seen
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
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.
0:28 `set nu rnu`
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!
7:23 I feel like I'm flying!! thank you.
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...)
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.
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
I wish I had no need to deal with VIM
Just use Nano. It's fine if that works for you.
@@NostraDavid2 both are usless, look aroud it's 2024 already
Lose the talking head.
About math, you don't need to increase/decrease number by one using or actually if you need for ex. increase number by 10, it will looks like this 10
Even better than just relative numbers: try `set nu rnu` (exactly like this, single line, one `set`, two arguments)
That's what he has though
👊 Promo_SM
the i / a I would call it: Inside / Around.
better nemonic
thx. 🙏🏼 asciidoc script I have to steal;) from u