There are thousands and thousands of characters in unicode. There are also lots of symbols and pictographs which can be useful even if you don’t write in a foreign language.
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Time and time again people need to make the same single change in a document in multiple places. I often see people replacing things over and over again with dw i <type new word> <ESC>, spending a lot of time and making typing mistakes in the process. There is a very handy command to repeat […]
In English two space characters are used after the end of a sentence. But not in German. Usually no big deal because I type my text the way I want it. However, when I use commands to have vim reformat a paragraph for me it will insert two spaces when joining lines which start a […]
Selecting text in vim in a terminal window without mouse support may be a bit difficult if it’s not something like 3 words or 2 lines. Visual mode to the rescue!
How often have you written a script and then, during debugging, you found typos in variable names or function names?