One of my colleagues asked me how to paste over text in Vim. There are three steps to this:
R
CTRL-R
When editing a file in Insert mode, it sometimes feels restrictive in terms of editing shortcuts. However, many shortcuts used elsewhere in Unix and other text editors are available. For example, CTRL-w (:help i_CTRL-W) will delete the word before the cursor, and CTRL-u…
CTRL-w
:help i_CTRL-W
CTRL-u