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(Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks?

Posted by timothy on from the make-it-roll-over dept.

haroldag writes "I thoroughly enjoyed the recent post about Unix tricks, so I ask Slashdot vim users, what's out there? :Sex, :b#, marks, ctags. Any tricks worth sharing?"

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  1. Re::Sex by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're asking on the wrong site. No one on Slashdot has ever tried it.

  2. Re::Sex by TrekkieTechie · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll tell you when you're older.

  3. very useful (especially for noobs) by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

    :q

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    This guy's the limit!
  4. WTF?? by monkeySauce · · Score: 5, Funny

    I typed :Sex and it opened up a HUGE list of folders choc full of porn!

  5. Re:Just using VIM by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

    Young whippersnappers. When I was "at a young age", it was called vi, and it didn't have any of this fruity syntax highlighting, and if you wanted to navigate around a document you had to use h,j,k,l, not those hand-holding arrow keys.

    Remember the old dig at emacs, "Eight Megs and Constantly Swapping?" Well back then, an 8 MB program actually did mean constant swapping!

    I've been in this business for too damn long.

  6. Re:Stupid vi tricks? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stupid vi tricks? (Score:2)
    by argent (18001)

    I believe you and your fancy VIM are on this man's lawn.

  7. Re:Just using VIM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not really a vim trick, but I always liked to create a file in the / directory named README. The file just contained one line: "ERROR: can not open file README" When someone cats it, they get the error message. Pretty cute until they vi it and figure it out.

  8. Re::Sex by pimpimpim · · Score: 5, Funny
    it give you a file exploring pane above the buffer you are currently using.

    If only my parents had told me earlier.

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  9. Re:Just using VIM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    How else am I supposed to get anything done on Windows?