How to Vim: Proper Ways to Escape
ESC (Escape) is one of the most central key in the world of Vim. It takes you from Insert mode to Normal mode and it also serves to interrupt operations in p...
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How to Vim: Reloading File Buffers
In Vim (and many other editors) we interact with the contents of files via the “file buffer” abstraction. Basically, that’s the in-memory representation of a...
How to Vim: Jump Around
One of the most important aspects of effective editing is to be able to quickly move where you want to go in a buffer - e.g. to a specific line, paragraph, c...
How to Vim: Toggle Comments
One if the things that had initially frustrated me about Vim is that out-of-the-box there’s no way to toggle comments on and off in programming languages. Th...
How to Vim: Format Lines & Paragraphs
When writing long code comments or prose (e.g. in Markdown) I like to have lines and paragraphs neatly formatted to fit the textwidth setting.1 There are two...