Vim Tips I Wish I Knew Earlier 

Timestamps: 0:24 - Relative line numbers 2:26 - Mapping Esc to Caps Lock 3:22 - :norm 4:41 - C-v (similar to :norm A & I) 6:04 - in(de)crement numbers with C-a / C-x 8:36 - using o to change visual select direction 9:24 - % for jump to matching pair: ({[ 11:04 - i / a (inside / outisde) 13:55 - W vs w 15:51 - Invoking external scripts/binaries 19:08 - Creating (dynamic) snippets 20:25 - Using netrw/fzf/search

Has to be the most underrated piece of software ever. I'll never go back.

highly recommend placing some segments and timestamps on these videos, as you rarely have everything being new for Vim users. That way we can easily click to those points that might apply.

Dude I've been using vim for almost 2 years and you're the first person that's actually taught me something new past the first month of this endeavor.

Vertical visual mode with the multi cursor was the only thing I saw an emacs user have that I wanted, and vim turns out to have it too. It's such a nice experience using that. Absolute chad developers.

Great video, nicely done. Didn't know about o for adjusting the visual selection. I've always cancelled and started from scratch when I screwed up. No longer!

What the...! I absolutely love that :norm command! I didn't knew it was that easy! Thanks a lot Sebastian.

You can use i/a with a lot of stuff: f = function p = paragraph t = HTML tag And probably a ton I don't know about

norm is a pretty new to me, this is really great to put in to my arsenal

One of my favourites has to be a way to "encase" text in quotes/braces/etc: replace the text either after selecting in visual or with motions, i.e. cw {" " "} --- the " after ctrl+r pastes the text you just cut from the " register.

Windows users - reading the friendly manual: "Since CTRL-V is used to paste, you can't use it to start a blockwise Visual selection. You can use CTRL-Q instead."

2:59 Mapping escape to caps lock is pretty easy on every major operating system. Under MacOS its under Settings/Keyboard/Modifier Keys and under Windows you can install PowerToys by Microsoft and do it under Keyboard manager/Remap a key. I highly recommend doing this.

I needed these tips, thanks for sharing!

Didn't know about o for switching direction of selection

Fantastic video, Sebastian! Really interesting with some great tips!

This was very insightful, thanks

Loved this! Thank you Sebastian, awesome content

Set environment variable "EDITOR=vim" or whatever you like Write some command in your bash terminal and press (CTRL + X & CTRL + E) This allows you to modify the command you want to write by opening up the command in your "$EDITOR" Especially useful when writing commands that you want to split over multiple lines, but still be executed as if it was all in one command. Or just want to get some syntax highlighting in your favorite text editor. Most people might already know this... but if you don't, you're welcome.

One very helpful keybinding in vim, is Ctrl+R in insert mode, when pressing it you are able to paste directly from some register. I was finding my self a lot of the times, just pressing escape to go into normal mode, and press p (to paste) and i again to move to insert mode. It is very helpful...

Been using vi/vim/neovim since 1992 and still learn new things from this kind of video, o especially. What are you using for the markdown headings to be shown at the top of your screen as you scroll down? This was in the section about relative line numbers.

did i knew it already : YES did i watched it again : YES

Great content, learnt something new

Had no idea about o or using ex mode with . on a visual selection.

sessions and copy-paste to/from clipboard (I don't have clipboard support) has been my newest tools for vim

Nice tips, subscribed! One suggestion for such videos: you need to code in the memory of these things otherwise anyone will forget them 5 minutes after watching! The way I remember these is how the creators of vim motions intended it: by looking at the meaning of the letters, such [o] for [O]ther end of highlighted text, and [a] for [A]round.

Nice video! I recently learned about the ctrl+f trick in command mode, its usefull

I've know almost all of them for a while, but these are some great tips! For me, I had to turn off relative numbers because it was not great for pair programming with a colleague when they had to point out at what line should a change go, etc, but overall is a nice feature that I like One thing I learned from this was the `o` in visual mode, that's actually pretty neat I think I might start using that instead of thinking about where to start the highlighting from and to, everyday you learn something new in vim 😅

Sweet video dude!

Thank you for this video! Espanso is a great text expander to check out too!

I like automatic session saving, that's the big one I've learned recently. Didn't get into it until it was automatic in some neovim config I was using. It always saves your session on exit, and when starting vim there's an *option* to resume the session by pressing a keybinding - and it knows which session based on which directory you are in.

I've been using vim for years and knew I knew about invoking with ! from command mode but the fact that you can replace the contents in place with the output blew my mind.

w/W is great, but don’t sleep on b/B for going the other way. o will be a game changer for me. Thank you!

the thing that I use in vim is that, in KDE you can download certain keyboard layouts that have 3rd and 4th layer, and then in keyboard settings select "use caps lock for the third layer" now if I press caps l I get ľ, caps j gives ± and so on this allows for a lot of new potential keybindings, ď for emmet ľ for esc ± and ł for scrolling by line [C-Y and C-E] so now i can move cursor with j k and move screen with caps j k (every press moves the screen by 1 line) also š for :w i only have these right now, but I can add more in the future [oh and also, in kde settings you can make caps mode go on from both shifts being tapped at the same time]

I'm definitely gonna use that `o` visual mode trick

Interesting. Actually I use "w" and "W" constantly, it's basically one of my most used navigation ways

Another nice one with some of the text-objects (i.e. va", vi

Nice video, for fuzzy finding I personally use fzf-lua and Telescope, I have a script that spawns fzf-lua if I'm in my home directory (since way faster) and Telescope otherwise (with the smart-open extension that gives you a mix of old opened files, ones from the current directory etc, all of that weighted). But I recently discovered that you can have a whole "real" (like ranger or vifm) file manager inside of neovim, I'm thus now also using the yazi file manager inside of neovim, you can do everything from within it, cd, use zoxide, fzf, searching, and ofc copy/paste/cut/rename etc, it can even preview images. But I'm using neovim as an "IDE", so it's pretty much essential to have convenient navigation.

Would you consider making an overview of vim plugins that you find most useful in your everyday work? Or have I missed it ?

I have relative and absolute numbers, so when I share my screen my team mates can point to the line they want me to go naturally (or in a way they are familiar with).

a in selections stands for "around'.

Hi Sebastian, thanks for the tips! What is the colorscheme that you are using (is it maybe default vim? I am an nvim user after all...)

How do I set up gvim to automatically load files that were opened when the editor was last closed each time I started it?

Use control-[ instead ecs or remap caplocks

Is this some sort of plugin? I have relative line numbers enabled but don't can't get these sections/subsections stuff to work (2:04)

What font are you using? it looks nice.

Could you please move the keylogger to above you? I think it will be better there.

Hello, Sebastian. Can you tell please which OS do you use?

to select inside html tag vat 😁

Can you please tell me, what plugin are you using for creating snippets

I map the left arrow key to ESC in insert mode and down to write the file in all modes,

After 25 years of use there are still vim tricks and commands I still don't know.

super coollllllll

Which screen key software are you using?

this is a great video, but you keystrokes are way to fast they need to linger a bit bc i can't keep up with them XD

was kinda hoping you'd show how to create the snippets

Luke Smith would be proud, by far the best vim video I've seen

I strongly recommend against remapping of Caps Lock to Escape. When you do eventually switch computers, maybe trying to repair someone elses. Any keyboard remapping is going to make life difficult.

0:28 `set nu rnu`

how did you make this split happen at 1:48?

Nice vídeo. However, I think the dynamic snippets section should have better explanation.. I mean: how to really do it the way you just show us?

7:23 I feel like I'm flying!! thank you.

that is all well and good... but how do you exit VIM? can someone just tell me!!!

17:20 vim has its own sort, no?

I like "jk" =

== i didnt know yet: * o: switch selection direction * snippets * fzf/explorer inside vim == i already know & use daily/prominently * relativenumber * :exe & :norm * C-v box visual mode * i/a: in/around * w/W * scripts, is it talking about :! ? == i know but disagree with: * Mapping Esc to Caps lock * %: jump to matching: finnicky & unpredictable

Of course I know how to exit vim... It's sudo killall vim

How do I exit vim? 🤣

I wish I had no need to deal with VIM

Lose the talking head.

About math, you don't need to increase/decrease number by one using or actually if you need for ex. increase number by 10, it will looks like this 10

Even better than just relative numbers: try `set nu rnu` (exactly like this, single line, one `set`, two arguments)

👊 Promo_SM

the i / a I would call it: Inside / Around. better nemonic

thx. 🙏🏼 asciidoc script I have to steal;) from u