Vim 101: ed and ex

When I first started using Vim, I didn’t really appreciate its relationship with ed. My first experience with ed started when a Unix system (Solaris circa 1998) had been configured with it as the default editor. I ran something like crontab -e and entered a world of confusion:

Vim 101: Virtual Editing

Visual mode and Blockwise Visual mode have several associated settings. In this article, we’re going to look at virtualedit, which is definitely something to consider adding to your .vimrc.

Vim Cheat Sheet Poster

It took over 120 total hours to research, plan, design and create this cheat-sheet. It is meant to be a collection of…

Vim 101: Working with Brackets

I don’t know how much nontechnical writers care about brackets — there probably aren’t that many brackets in the average novel, fiction or non. Programming is another matter. Every language seems to make use of all brackets, including curly and square.

Local Settings

If you’re like me then you have a centralised repository for Vim’s settings. There are situations, however, where local settings are required. For example, I may want subtly different settings when working on files on a server, but still want to load my preferred .vimrc as well.

Vim 101: External Help

Vim has a built in way to look up help for keywords — the K command. Moving the cursor over a word then typing K will attempt to load a man page by running the man command in the terminal.