Hint: To make Vim behave exactly as it does in this post’s video, download mouse-vimrc and run Vim with vim -u mouse-vimrc.

Console Vim works shockingly well with the mouse. Selections can be made, windows resized — all without using gVim or MacVim. I’ve written…

Hint: To make your Vim look the same as my screenshots, download usevim-vimrc and run Vim with vim -u usevim-vimrc.

Most types of commands can be repeated in Vim. Mastering the basic ways to repeat commands is a good way of building up your skills to…

Review: Vim for iOS

Vim by Applidium (GitHub: applidium / Vim, License: Vim) is an open source Vim port for iOS. I realise that might sound…

Last week I wrote about the virtues of Visual mode in Vim 101: Visual Mode. This is the gateway to an entire class of powerful text manipulation techniques. One aspect that I find myself using regularly in my daily coding chores is blockwise Visual mode.

Hint: To make your Vim look the same as my screenshots, download usevim-vimrc and run Vim with vim -u usevim-vimrc.

In a typical GUI editor, a block of text can be selected by clicking the mouse and dragging over a number of lines or characters. Vim introduced…

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vim-pasta

vim-pasta by Marcin Kulik will cause text to automatically reindent when pasted. The standard p and P commands are…