Once you’ve got used to using the y command to yank text, it's easy to use the unnamed register when perhaps a named…
y
The search command, /, is actually a motion, which means it can be used with operators. Any operator can be combined with search just by typing the desired search and pressing return.
/
One thing that came out of my talk on Custom Motions at Vim London was the idea of instinctively…
I’m doing a talk about custom motions at the next Vim London meetup, which I’m looking forward to. Why did I pick the topic “custom motions”? Well, mainly because it’ll force the audience to revise modes, operators, motions, and Vim’s grammar.
In Vim 101: Registers, we looked at registers, and how to yank and put text. In Normal and Visual mode, motions can be combined with operator commands, which offers a convenient way to apply operators to text selections.
A favourite editing technique of mine is typing ci< in Normal mode to replace the contents of HTML tags:
ci<