I was searching GitHub to see what weird and wonderful characters people use for their 'listchars' setting. This all started because I was using a Chromebook, and the built-in shell had trouble displaying some of the characters I use for showing invisible characters. Looking at my…

Moving around a file efficiently can improve your productivity, but it takes a while to get the hang of Vim’s jumps. Last week I wrote some tips for practicing marks — ideas for working marks into your daily workflow. Marks and jumps are closely related, mainly because…

Stop the Vim Configuration Madness

Convention over configuration is an established paradigm, it even has a Wikipedia page! I like the…

Two weeks ago I wrote a Vim 101 on tags, which introduced the basics for working with Vim’s tag navigation tools. Something that I hinted at was using tags to help visualise a project’s structure. Although Vim’s raw editing operations are incredibly powerful, some of us need help in trying to…

Discovering and retaining good habits for file navigation is one way to vastly improve your productivity when using Vim. Other than jumps and searching, text object motions are also a great way for skipping around a file like a Vim virtuoso.

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it Gutter

Vim Git Gutter (GitHub: airblade / vim-gitgutter, License: MIT) by Andrew Stewart shows a symbol in the sign column to…

Vim, Instinct, and Muscle Memory

One thing that came out of my talk on Custom Motions at Vim London was the idea of instinctively…