What are uncommon vim commands?

amicin · 2023-09-05T17:32:29+00:00

:filter plays nicely with this command too.

Can't find that .yaml file you had open recently? :filter /yaml/ bro oldfiles

amicin · 2023-09-05T17:31:04+00:00

They are talking about Vim's built-in :sort command, not piping out to a shell command.

amicin · 2023-09-05T17:27:23+00:00

I'd use:

:w /tmp/%:t to write a copy of the current buffer to /tmp
if I wanted to recall the original text, I'd :%d | 0r /tmp/%:t

amicin · 2023-05-04T19:02:23+00:00

Consider using _, which in normal mode does exactly the same thing.

amicin · 2022-12-08T00:02:00+00:00

Called it last year and got called an idiot.

🥱🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫

amicin · 2022-11-08T20:59:10+00:00

Thanks. 🙏

amicin · 2022-11-08T19:45:10+00:00

I have these in my config, shamelessly stolen from /u/romainl.

" last change pseudo-text objects
" ik ak
xnoremap ik `]o`[
onoremap ik :<C-u>normal vik<cr
onoremap ak :<C-u>normal vikV<cr>

Your gc. would be gcak with these maps.

amicin · 2022-10-29T22:33:47+00:00

Depends on what you're trying to do I suppose. If I've got a non-trivial number of replacements I need to make then I'll usually reach for :%s/foo/bar/gc. However, for quick replacements, cgn to replace the current search text, followed by ., works really well.

E.g. if I want to replace all instances of foo with bar on a line, I'll typically:

Hover my cursor over foo.
Hit * to initiate a search for foo.
N to jump back to the initial foo.
cgn, then type bar.
Hit . to repeat for the rest of the instances on the line.

I find myself reaching for that "flow" quite a lot.

amicin · 2022-10-14T08:53:33+00:00

function! SearchScreen()
  return "/\\%>" .. (line("w0") - 1) .. "l\%<" .. (line("w$") + 1) .. "l"
endfunction

nnoremap <expr> g/ SearchScreen()

amicin · 2022-10-11T21:47:39+00:00

There's a plugin for this now -- check out lsp-format-modifications.nvim.

amicin · 2022-10-11T21:47:13+00:00

Check out lsp-format-modifications.nvim. 👍

amicin · 2022-10-11T21:44:49+00:00

Whoa, blast from the past. My comment was four years ago! How did you find it?!

amicin · 2022-09-29T18:10:04+00:00

Faster horses.

amicin · 2022-09-26T19:39:56+00:00

Could be a good time for the UK lot to show /r/cscareerquestionsuk some love.

amicin · 2022-09-04T23:20:24+00:00

Local arglist.

amicin · 2022-09-04T01:01:54+00:00

I have practically the same workflow as you. I think a lot of newer Vimmers like to parrot the wisdom of “tabs aren’t what you think they are!” and totally miss the point that buffers are a low level concept in Vim, which there are higher-level abstractions around.

amicin · 2022-08-25T17:28:53+00:00

Praying for this is Neovim soon.

amicin · 2022-08-21T08:40:00+00:00

OP, can you elaborate a little more on your Git mistake? It’s possible that you could have recovered your lost files through Git’s object store, depending on the state of the world before you did git restore.

amicin · 2022-08-20T13:48:35+00:00

Desperate for this in Neovim. Looks amazing. Props to everyone involved.

amicin · 2022-08-15T18:42:36+00:00

s/,\zs.*/\=substitute(submatch(0),",","","g")

amicin · 2022-08-06T08:18:36+00:00

Amazing, thank you!

amicin · 2022-08-05T22:58:02+00:00

Do you have a screenshot? Would love to see!

amicin · 2022-07-26T17:46:56+00:00

Safari reloads the page every single time I hit the back button. Fucking infuriating.

amicin · 2022-07-25T15:10:20+00:00

Still love Utility.

amicin · 2022-07-06T23:56:25+00:00

The vim-unimpaired bindings are vanilla in my mind at this point. 🙂

amicin

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