Vi (Vim) for Windows Users

Learn by comparison with Windows text editor (Word, Notepad, etc.). For users of a GUI text editor , vi can be a challenge. A way to bridge this gap is to compare and map the two behaviors. Read more

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Vim Creep

It all started out innocently enough. You experimented with it once or twice in your first year of college, but Nano and Pico were easier—closer to what you had already been using during high school on the Windows machines and Macs. But as time went on an... (more…)

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Emulating Shell Worksheets in Vim

More neat tricks with Vim, this time inspired by BBEdit’s Shell Worksheets. With these mappings, you can hit Ctrl-Enter on a line to execute it as a shell command and replace it with its output. Ctrl-Shift-Enter will preserve the command line above its ou... (more…)

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