Vim 101: Registers

It’s possible to use Vim without learning about registers, but to be really productive it’s worth spending some time to understand how actions and commands use them.

There are several groups of registers. Typing help :registers will display these. To see all of the…

Vim 101: Movement in Command-line Mode

Vim’s command-line mode doesn’t receive much attention, but it’s useful to learn some of the more efficient ways to navigate text when it’s active. Command-line mode is used to enter commands prefixed with a :, search patterns, and filter commands.

Alternative Ways to Learn Vim

Vim has excellent documentation, and the interactive vimtutor isn't bad either. However, I don't blame anyone who seeks alternative ways to learn Vim.

Plugin Roundup: Vim and tmux

I live inside tmux and Vim, but I’m always interested in discovering new ways to make them work together more efficiently. I noticed that Vitality and vimux were released recently, and both aim to help those of us who use tmux and Vim regularly.