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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:Just using VIM by Constantine+XVI · · Score: 5, Interesting

    main utility of vi is that I know it's going to be there in any Linux enviroment (and I suspect Unix in general).

    vi is part of the Single UNIX Specification, so anything passing itself off as UNIX must include vi. Even without the spec, it's much, much more universal than emacs, and more powerful than pico/nano.

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    "I think an etch-a-sketch with an ethernet port would beat IE7 in web standards compliance."
  2. Re:Just using VIM by Adam+Hazzlebank · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The one I find really useful is .,+20s/foo/bar/g

    Replace all occurrences in the next 20 lines from the current line only. Great when your editing code and you've realised you used the wrong variable name in that method for example.