Do you still remember QEdit? In my opinion one of the best editors for DOS. I was using QEdit a lot and later TSE, The SemWare Editor, an even more enhanced rewrite of QEdit. One of the feature I used a lot was a function to copy the character from the line above to the […]
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In undo – redo I’ve described how to undo and redo changes in a file. By default, the undo stack is deleted when you close a file. However, this can be changed and also the size of the undo stack can be controlled.
When writing scripts, I prefer to have my comments aligned with the code. However, as I use smartindent, vim always moves me to the first column whenever I start a line with hash. Annoying.
When editing certain files, I want to move to the next paragraph quickly, or I want to delete the remainder of the current paragraph in one go. Luckily there is a move command for this:
The most basic commands to move up and down in vim are j and k. They are fine if you want to move line by line, but not if you want to