Let Vim Do the Typing 

The speaker deserves some kind of an award for showing CTRL + r and CTRL + a

Overview: In insert mode you can... ^r = insert text from a register ^a = insert text from register '.' ^p = completion menu ^x = special "completion mode" submode of insert - - ^] = tag - - ^p = pull from previous context - - ^n = pull from next context - - ^f = file completion - - ^l = line - - ^o = omnicompletion How to change where to complete from: set complete

How nice to watch a video where 8 minute in I'm already thinking "This was time well spent". Awesome!

I watched this about a year ago and nothing made sense. This time everything seemed so clear. Vim is a never ending learning journey. If you don't understand what's happening here don't worry. Add it to your "watch later" playlist and come back in a while.

Not a coder, but a novelist looking to rework my workflow away from documents and into text files. Been learning vim recently and, honesty, it has been a revelation. And this talk just upped my vim game a few levels. Thank you.

Vimgolf is a great way to pick up many of these shortcuts, but it was really nice to have a clear explanation here giving context to the optimisations.

Guys, if you're trying to stay a bit more in insert mode, there's a way to manually create and undo point (while still in insert mode): C-g u.

This dude is a wonderful presenter. The first time I watched this video a few months ago, I didn't really get it because I was just starting out, but this really is a great session to watch all the way through. Thanks!

Didn't know about the at end of line trick. This is awesome!

A lot of good Vim tips in this video.

Hey! Vsauce. Micheal here.

Super video! When I first started watching I almost stopped, because it seemed kindof silly and I'm not a big fan of CTRL key combinations, but as the video went along and more examples were shown, it became more and more useful and interesting. Well well worth the time to watch. Thanks!!

Promoting open source software on close source OS that's something, good job men

This is a cool video with lots of great tips. Slightly confused that the guy used CTRL-] to jump to definitions, but wasn't aware of CTRL-T to go back. Great talk :)

Great talk! Very clear and succinct.

Some new VIM hacks added to my list. There is lot to learn in vim for easy coding.. thanks a lot. This tutorial is presented more than an year before, can we get some more hacks here Mr. George Brock. +1

That is a very good tutorial. Thanks!.

This is awesome sir, thanks for your video.

Thanks a lot for this wonderful video.

Best talk on power of insert mode 1. Ctrl x + f #filename complete ] #tag complete l #line complete o #language complete p #word complete n # word complete 2. Ctrl + r + a # a register Register " & 0 is current resister are woderful Amazing talk. Thanks a lot GitHub repo : georgebrock/talks

Brilliant. Can't believe I didn't know the line competion

Very informative. Thanks.

Great video, thanks.

TabNine takes completion to an entirely new level

Thank you for the great talk!

Side note to all, to turn off spell check: :set spell! Not intuitive and is not in the ":help spell" vim documentation.

Great talk. Thanks!

Great talk - thank you for sharing. I *am* twitching though. All these comments and nobody mentions what the fox did? If the fox 'jumped' rather than 'jumps', you have no letter 's'. The sentence is intended to exercise every alpha key on a typewriter. I'm curious. Has anyone mentioned this in live talks?

+1 for not remapping leader key. ',' is useful for going back after f and t.

First there was Vi vs. Emacs ... then the Big Bang and the Expansion of the Universe....

Should've called this video, "Chad Insertion (Mode)"

Great vid. Learned some new tricks. I was hoping to "map" ^x^p to a function key (F7), however in insert mode it just inserts . Would have been great. I may have to use macro keys of my keyboard... Anyways, thank you very much sir!

Really great talk! I've never used VIM in this way but it's super cool that it can do that. How do u show what your typed in chars at the bottom of the window? Is it a plugin or can be set up this way? It would be useful for me to know what I've just typed in to make sure.

What's that awesome jazz at the beginning?

g; return to last edit

Great video. Very informative. Is there anything like this available for Emacs?

Thanx for this video........

11:23, how can he show the next key options following c-x? oh , i see set showcmd

Haha, vim as a language model, awesome

@6:56 The quick brown fox jumps - not jumped - over the lazy dog. Just saying...

Can someone link to rcm, please? It's not linked in either the description or the video's associated blog post.

So I tried this out, is there a way to make Ctrl-X Ctrl-P work across buffers? Or it only works on the same buffer?

"Control X Control Oops"

He's a Ctrl freak Just kidding, loved the content.

The fact you have to type "Ctrl-P" to get the completion suggestions kills the benefit of the feature for most words.

I have a `+insert_expand` enabled, but Ctrl-X in insert mode does not seem to be doing anything for me. What am I missing?

Hello thoughtbot, thanks for this video! How do we know the word Hello is in Register 'a' and the word World is in Register 'b' ? Your reply could really help me a lot! Hope to hear from you soon.

The audio level on this fluctuates from low to inaudible, unfortunately.

For some reason example at 4:02 doesn't work for me :( When I press . it only repeats "world"

I'm disapointed. I thought vim had implemented neurolink so that we can type with our minds. This suffices enough though :)

Does anyone knows how to add the option kspell for the autocompletion?

Stupid question: How do I add kspell to set complete?

"Tests have a repetitive structure" which is why I use a strong type system :P Not really related to the talk, but it's odd to see how much my methods have changed in the last few years.

this information can be found in the help files right?

That moment when he presses a Enter esc instead of o...

I didn't know about text completion! ^p and ^n!

Balding? Check. Glasses (with thick rimmed frames)? Check. Beard? Check. T-shirt? Check.

I tried to enter in insert mode here in youtube but it minimized the video.

This is WAYYYY more typing than it needs to be. At least from what he is saying and showing, it comes across as twice the work for two words.Why does it come across like twice the amount of work for such a small amount of text?

ctrl + x is so powerfull.

ctrl-x is such a horrible bind. on my layout, x is directly under the left pinky so pressing left ctrl is out, and the right one is too far away... I’ll probably bind it to x

Shorter commands: set rnu set nu

oh, what am I doing here, I remembered I'm an emacs user..

I love hitting ctrl-x, ctrl-] to autocomplete a tag name in my project. Just kidding, it's terrible, Vim is inefficient by design and forces you to learn how to glue lots of nasty little commands together like these to try to be efficient. Sure you could use a modern IDE that does all of this for you with intellisense, but that wouldn't give you carpal tunnel from vim commands, so maybe it's not worth it.

Spacemacs out-of-the-box (auto)completion is significantly better then this one. (Although this vid is 4yo)

I stopped watching as soon as I saw the unmistakable Mac/Apple UI. Not only is Mac OS terribly inefficient and garbage at multitasking (even 8 years later in 2023), it's also one of the pioneers in anti-consumerism in the 21st century.