Here’s a cool idea: indentation with motions. IndentWise by Jeet Sukumaran (GitHub: jeetsukumaran/vim-indentwise) provides motions based on indent depths or levels in normal, visual, and operator-pending modes.
vim-asterisk (GitHub: haya14busa/vim-asterisk, License: MIT) by haya14busa aims to improve the * motion. The * motion itself searches forward for the word nearest the cursor, so it's quite useful once you get used to it.
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glowshi-ft.vim (GitHub: saihoooooooo / glowshi-ft.vim) by Shinya Saiho is a cool visualisation plugin for the f and t motions. When a line has multiple targets, it display highlights and allows you to jump…
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A reader who was also a fan of Patternjump sent in vim-columnmove, which is by the same author. This is a plugin that helps make vertical movement more convenient by providing vertical equivalents of motions like f and t.
Wipeout by Artem Nezvigin is a small plugin that closes all buffers that are not open in any tabs or windows. It’s adapted from this Stack Overflow question.
Motions are a fundamental unit of Vim’s vocabulary, so it’s sometimes surprising to see new ones appear in the form of…
gtfo.vim (License: Vim) by Justin M. Keyes is a plugin for opening a file manager or terminal at the current file’s directory. In Normal mode, you can type gof to open the file manager, or got to open the terminal. The mnemonic…
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I’m peering out at you through a haze of Christmas dinner and fairy lights, finding a welcome distraction from assembling toys and cooking. I’ve written about many plugins over the last year, but I use two regularly, so I’d like to offer these morsels up as my plugins of the year.
Once you get comfortable with :%s for searching and replacing across an entire file, you can start to unlock more power by exploiting Vim's rich regular expression handling. Coming from a GUI background, you might be tempted to look for a plugin to solve a…
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vim-vertical-move (GitHub: bruno- / vim-vertical-move, License: MIT) by Bruno Sutic adds vertical movement motions. You can move the cursor to the point where a column change would be required…
