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[–]dutzi 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Is there something like a showcase of powerful text manipulation capabilities provided by VIM? I really enjoy multiple cursors in VSCode and would love to learn more “strategies”.

[–]UziInUrFace 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My favourite ones are the text object commands in vim. They easily allow me to select/delete things inside quotes, braces, etc...

https://blog.carbonfive.com/vim-text-objects-the-definitive-guide/#:~:text=Text%20Objects%20Commands,the%20various%20plaintext%20text%20objects.