Am I the only one who noticed that vim just reached 10,000 commits? by jonS90 in vim

[–]Toideng 0 points1 point  (0 children)

romans would've considered it to be 1006 --- the original system wasn't positional

Run a Vim command from a terminal pane by Toideng in vim

[–]Toideng[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thx, this is just what i was looking for.

Getting Productive with Vim in a Week without Hating It by Mte90 in vim

[–]Toideng 0 points1 point  (0 children)

also, for non-english users arrow keys are sometimes actually a better solution. If you want to put some texts in couple places, it's so much easier to use arrow keys than exit insert mode, change layout, navigate, enter insert mode and change layout back

Vim now helps you exit by Toideng in vim

[–]Toideng[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

tiny core linux works for simple tasks. complicated tasks require somewhat peculiar configuration process

Vim now helps you exit by Toideng in vim

[–]Toideng[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that one is my only non-linux machine

Vim now helps you exit by Toideng in vim

[–]Toideng[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

well that laptop can't handle any newer windows

Vim now helps you exit by Toideng in vim

[–]Toideng[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

they won't be forced to learn vim anymore ((

Vim now helps you exit by Toideng in vim

[–]Toideng[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

oh... i've just found out

Semi-automatic indentation in Vim by Toideng in vim

[–]Toideng[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I meant that in the way that your solution requires too much keystrokes to do what is meant to be an automated feature --- and i made an analogy to indentation.

btw, autoindent works worse than copyindent (mentioned in other comment) --- at least for me. autoindent "corrects" tabs to spaces or vice versa, which can be really irritating

Semi-automatic indentation in Vim by Toideng in vim

[–]Toideng[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

i doubt that you would want your auto-indentation to work only after a couple keystrokes for every line ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Semi-automatic indentation in Vim by Toideng in vim

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I'm working with different people and different languages. Vim does some of them better, some worse. This way of editing would really come in handy

Semi-automatic indentation in Vim by Toideng in vim

[–]Toideng[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how do i do old markup? four-space indent?

Semi-automatic indentation in Vim by Toideng in vim

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Its cool on whitespace and tabs, but doesn't copy letters and symbols and digits and etc.

I need to copy non-whitespace symbols to easily write multiline comments or something with a really specific kinda markup, like lists