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Jun 4, 2020Liked by Colin Bartlett

How about some VIM videos?

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Jun 9, 2020Liked by Colin Bartlett

Consider adding help link e.g. https://vimhelp.org/options.txt.html#%27incsearch%27 in articles

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Jun 4, 2020Liked by Colin Bartlett

Just a suggestion. I'd put up a "this is all you need to remember to use VIM 99% of the time" for first timers. Honestly, it took me awhile to learn to worship at the alter of VIM the all powerful. I really had no choice because I got these jobs doing admin on a variety of unix boxes and vi was it... or ed... or "cat > filename <<EOF". Then I used other editors that were certainly prettier... but I'd get to these WTF moments where I had to go back to VIM or spend an eternity in a bozo editor or maybe I'd write a script before I figured out it was trivial in VIM. Anyway, great stuff here. There is ALWAYS something new to learn in VIM. Woot!

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Jun 4, 2020Liked by Colin Bartlett

Your latest tidbit on non-printable characters is extremely useful. I have used it many times to clean up files over the years... although typically to fix the newline problem I reach for whatever sed, perl, ruby script pops up in my head first. Sometimes doing this in VIM is exactly the right thing, however, as I look for whatever funky character is causing problems. Note: This might be a perfect segue into how to use vim as a hex editor... or just how easy it is to call external tools for data manipulation. VIM is one of those rabbit holes that just keeps going and going and going...

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Jun 4, 2020Liked by Colin Bartlett

Would want to see more plugins usage

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Lightweight plugins are also good to know

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Would prefer to see non-extension related vim tricks

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I would love to know how to post comments with code properly formated, I have tried <pre> but it did not work. I think everybody could benefit from it. Thank you guys for you amazing job!

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