Advanced Vim Workflows 

As a new Vim user... you're a goddamn wizard!

As someone just getting started with vim, that was amazing to watch! Can you do a video on how you have your vim set up? I mean with all the plugins ...etc.

So far all videos displaying the "power of vim" have had me screaming at the screen as they use macros to solve absolutely basic problems that can be solved much better with :%s/pattern/replacement/g (assuming the dev is not a tool and actually knows Regex). This is the first demonstration I see of actual powerful use macros. Especially since you also demonstrate the power of text objects and arglist. Well done sir! PS: my most recent use of macros was selecting certain bits of text and moving them from one file to another. It's suprisingly easy to record a macro that: 1. deletes the entire text object your cursor is on 2. switches window (I had the other file open in the other window) 3. jumps to the bottom 4. pastes 5. comes back to the first window 6. jumps to the next text object to inspect

Holy Sh** this is amazing !! I'm only 6 months into VIM and everyday getting new tricks and commands, but looking forward to a decade in VIM !

Im pretty new to vim but so far I really love its capabilities though im no where near this level! The only thing is trying to remember all the keys and wishing I knew more about vim builtin scripting. Glad to discover your content and thank you for producing it!

Excited to watch this tonight, glad to see more content!

Splendid job! Efficient & elegant manner combines with the true knowledge for an aesthetics pleasure. High quality content here!

I've been using VI since 1997 and that was just nutty.

Excelent showcase on actually doing real example on how to use this tools. I often when doing some refactoring try to learn a new way on doing it by using Vim or some cli tool like sed. Never knew I could run a macro on several files like that, and also that example on taking the results of a regexp and pasting on that line. Very good stuff! Keep them going!

Great video! Love to see how others use vim. The best way to learn after one knows the basics. Cool Examples! Looking forward to the next vim workflow video!

And here I am thinking VIM can' surprise me anymore. And then there is this video.

humm Edvard Grieg for the intro. Looks like you are a man of culture.

Awesome vid 🙌 Excited for some more content!!

This was amazing! Thank you for doing this!

Errata 4.16: I said "command line mode". It's actually "command mode". Thanks to the great people at r/vim for catching that. Show notes and episode alerts: www.semicolonandsons.com/episode/Advanced-Vim-Workflows

Loved the macro explanation! 🙏

You had me already convinced with Schumann, you didn't need to record all those macros!

Omg the prozac thing made me laugh. Love the channel name too.

Best Vim's video ever!

god tier content .... instant sub. Thankyou for making this high quality video and sharing it (Y) kudos

I always find so much to vim that I haven't discovered yet. The args do and macro thing I must learn to make use of.

Wow this is master tier level skills!

Great video, I learned a lot from this video!

Instant subscribe, awesome content!

vim indent guides looks pretty nice, I might look into it as an alternative to indentLine

Excellent advanced vim tips. Kindly use screen key so we can see the commands you type. Many thanks

To help view the output of "git diff", I like to use: git diff | gvim -c set titlestring="output\ of\git\ diff" - &

What a gem!

Really good vid, please make more vim ones

Mind officially blown!

Good tips.

Please do more, sir.

Now I see how developers become 10x, my power level is too weak.

3:40 If you don't save and use :ea 1f you would be doing the same but without the need of using a plug-in.

it feels to me as though a sed or awk script would be better for the first 2 examples... but the third vim example is really cool!

We really need great refactoring tools like language servers. This way we can have the IDE in vim.

That made me want to learn vim :)

How can I get the buffer list on the top of the window like yours??

4:00 tl;dr - use `:argdo normal@c` to run macro at register c on all open buffers

DOPE AS FAQ

Nice channel name bro, reminds me of steinway and sons

Hey @Semicolon&Sons! I have a question. I'm trying to replicate the workflow of using `args` then `argdo`, hoping I can do similar with `vimgrep` and `cdo`. But it doesn't seem like the w on the command from cdo is actually writing the files, so the `cdo` stops and yells at me because there's no write. I am still fairly new to working with buffers, so maybe I'm not understanding why we need to delete the current buffer, or how to do that in order to make the writes effective. But if you have thoughts/have seen this and can think of a correction, I would be eternally grateful!

How do you get the alternating background colors for your start-of-line tabs/spaces?

Good morning, Sir. I hope you are doing well. I would like to recommend you to do some videos about the vim's plugins that you use. Sincerely, a brazilian friend.

Just curious what you are using for code completion engine? I see you are using fzf for search and this video put me over the edge into trying it. Thanks for the great video!

took me 30 seconds to subscribe

music at the beginning?

what a cool voice )

What is happening, how do you get it set up like that! And your prompt, I have heard about customizing your linux prompt, but you must have installed some software.

Great video man! Can I learn what do you use for autocompletion?

This so blown my mind how did you do that ??? my skills in Vim is in beginners i need to learn more from you Thanks!

I like how you say hate shtee ML because that's clearly my relationship with www

Loved the content, is this going to be a reoccurring subject? Looks like you removed the link to your "Show Notes"?

what kind of editor is it? is it extended vim with plugins?

Would you mind sharing your vim configuration files? I'd be interested to see them, your setup looks nice!

Thanks for this one! How did you set up your config to make it highlight while typing :%s/^function ? I'd also appreciate it if you enable screen keys so we could see what you're actually typing :)

This reminds me of emacsrocks, and that if anything is a compliment to a good video.

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how can you change buffer while the one you're leaving is modified buffer? 3:09

Fawesome thx

I'm using neovim and i use tab key to switch buffers. But switching happens after a delay, but when i use :bnext and :bprev for switching it works fast. Is there any solution you can suggest?

Real Chad

Hello! Not actually related to Vim, but I'd love to know the name of the music at the start of the video. Best wishes, great content!

Vim, if u you're absolutely beginner This book "vim from wtf to omg" will be useful for you

Nice video and all but why is your intro a tiny part of Greig's A minor concerto?

Not a vim question, but if I do a git diff on my machine it looks a lot messier than if you do it.

lmao your name is amazing bro

Can you share your dotfiles? Good to see other best practices

1:50 tips, use "dj" instead of "2dd"

Which colorscheme is this?

Ummmm the audio sounds like you applied the background noise removal thing in audacity too many times.

Vim rulez

God bless you in Jesus' Name Amen ✝️

Huh?

jesus, loose the echo oO