Editing

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 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.

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.

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: Search and Replace

In this article I assume the reader has a basic knowledge of regular expressions. To read about how Vim uses regular expressions, take a look at the pattern section of the Vim manual in :help pattern.

Substitution