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Alexander González Fertel · 2021-06-12T19:53:30.405Z

This is neither an in-depth article about advanced vim features nor is it an ideology-inducing primer on why the oh-so-powerful god of editors is such a great monarch. This is just my experience discovering vim after using several different code edit...

Thank you 👍 for such article. This has boosted my confidence to start it again.

What a great, detailed, and thorough post here. I agree 100% with the title. Big props Alexander González Fertel

I've used Vim a couple of times before but last month I decided to pick it back up and start using less and less VSCode long with it.

PS: You can have those 2 features that you mention from VSCode with some configs in your .vimrc file. Although file manipulation in netrw is even better with tpope plugin 'vim-vinegar'

And for multicursors, this is what I use...

nnoremap <silent> s* :let @/='\<'.expand('<cword>').'\>'<CR>cgn
xnoremap <silent> s* "sy:let @/=@s<CR>cgn

Thank you very much! I'll try them out!

You should try Onivim2! It’s a full vim with support for VSC extensions. It is fully compiled code that runs really fast! I mostly use Onivim2, but I do use neovim with SpaceVim configuration. Works great for me!

As an alternative for multiple cursor, I will do "*" on the word, 'N' to go back, then 'cgn' to change the first occurrence. Then dot dot dot to repeat the change to next occurrence. (You can skip the go back by 'haya14busa/vim-asterisk')

I should definitely give it a try, especially right now when I'm spending a couple of hours each day in Linux, working with scripts and doing text edits.

Tahnks a 100 times. Vim deserves articles like yours.

Vim, the most productive IDE on the planet. Once you start using vim there is no going back and you would NOT want to go back.

Check out Neovim 0.5 which is not on the stable branch yet but it's quite stable. It has built-in lsp support and other cool and productive features.

Seriously, start using vim and you would not want to go back to any other IDE.

Vim was always worth it, using it since I first figured out how :wq it.

Nice of you to share this! Tip: The grouping and sorting can be accomplished even easier (albeit making it less of a vim feature showcase) by simply running :sort with no visual selection - it will sort the entire buffer, including grouping by prefix.

Yeap, thank you, that makes sense :)

Great article! While I wasn't aware of the lovely feature where you apply a macro to lines selected with a regular expression, I can't help but point out that just sorting would have been enough for your usecase ;)

Thanks! Yeap, you're right, I didn't notice :)

Wow, you are really courageous. 👏 I recently gave up and switched from the default vim to vscode for git rebase but perhaps I should stick a bit longer.

Great, in-depth article!

Hi Alexander González Fertel

I remember VIM from the university as well... I didn't really like it and I was always avoiding it. After your article, I'll maybe give it another shot. I definitely wasn't aware of all the capabilities you mentioned.

Thanks.

I'm glad that you're trying it! I think you won't regret it! Cheers!

Great read! Now I just need to find the time to git gud at touch typing and vim :')

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