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Dec 8, 2020 • 
Colin Bartlett

November 2020

VimTrick: Editing visual selections
Increase your control over visual selections
Nov 26, 2020 • 
Andrew Libby
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VimTrick: Swap Arguments
Swap arguments or list items with this powerful plugin
Nov 23, 2020 • 
Colin Bartlett
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VimTrick: Extract lines to file
After selecting some lines, use w to write them elsewhere
Nov 19, 2020 • 
Colin Bartlett
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VimTricks: Help Powerup
Improve how you use Vim's help systsem
Nov 16, 2020 • 
Andrew Libby
VimTrick: Insert matched pattern
Use this trick for swift find and replace
Nov 12, 2020 • 
Colin Bartlett
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VimTrick: Operate until pattern
Change, edit, or yank all the text until a pattern
Nov 9, 2020 • 
Colin Bartlett
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VimTrick: Edit files sequentially
Write and move the next file in the args list
Nov 5, 2020 • 
Colin Bartlett
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VimTrick: Ignore case when searching
These two Vim settings will improve your pattern matching
Nov 2, 2020 • 
Colin Bartlett
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October 2020

VimTrick: Split to a Line
Jump right to a specific line when opening splits
Oct 29, 2020 • 
Colin Bartlett
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VimTrick: Viewing Zip files
Navigate through Zip files in Vim with a native plugin
Oct 26, 2020 • 
Andrew Libby
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VimTrick: Remove lines matching pattern
Skip grep and use Vim's built-in method of filtering lines
Oct 22, 2020 • 
Colin Bartlett
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