Archive - VimTricks

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Dec 8, 2020 •

November 2020

VimTrick: Editing visual selections

Increase your control over visual selections

Nov 26, 2020 •

VimTrick: Swap Arguments

Swap arguments or list items with this powerful plugin

Nov 23, 2020 •

VimTrick: Extract lines to file

After selecting some lines, use w to write them elsewhere

Nov 19, 2020 •

VimTricks: Help Powerup

Improve how you use Vim's help systsem

Nov 16, 2020 •

VimTrick: Insert matched pattern

Use this trick for swift find and replace

Nov 12, 2020 •

VimTrick: Operate until pattern

Change, edit, or yank all the text until a pattern

Nov 9, 2020 •

VimTrick: Edit files sequentially

Write and move the next file in the args list

Nov 5, 2020 •

VimTrick: Ignore case when searching

These two Vim settings will improve your pattern matching

Nov 2, 2020 •

October 2020

VimTrick: Split to a Line

Jump right to a specific line when opening splits

Oct 29, 2020 •

VimTrick: Viewing Zip files

Navigate through Zip files in Vim with a native plugin

Oct 26, 2020 •

VimTrick: Remove lines matching pattern

Skip grep and use Vim's built-in method of filtering lines

Oct 22, 2020 •

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