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@vcotwdorso

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  1. Retweeted
    26 Oct 2016
    Replying to

    I wonder how much Big Emacs paid Apple to get rid of the escape key. They'll stop at nothing in their war on vi.

    82 replies 2,228 retweets 2,893 likes
  2. Retweeted
    7 Oct 2016

    if you hit `` in vim, it returns your cursor to the last place you inserted text

    12 replies 55 retweets 136 likes
  3. Retweeted
    1 Sep 2015

    5 Signs Your Colleague Is A Vim User: • They’ll tell you • They’ll tell you • They’ll tell you • They’ll tell you • They’ll tell you

    60 replies 1,359 retweets 1,199 likes
  4. Retweeted
    24 Feb 2015

    I just learned a vi thing! :goto 1000 Takes you to the 1000th byte in a file. Handy for json_pp's errors in offset not line&col.

    2 replies 5 retweets 10 likes
  5. 22 Feb 2014

    - An interesting project to refactor vim and enable more modern features and UIs.

    1 reply 12 retweets 5 likes
  6. 13 Feb 2014

    A nice Q&A with instructions on simpler binding for pane navigation

    2 retweets 6 likes
  7. 7 Sep 2013

    g?: ROT13! Go and post spoilers about the Astral Plane on rec.games.roguelike.nethack like it's 1990!

    1 reply 2 likes
  8. 30 Dec 2012

    Have to scroll up/down to regain syntax highlighting in vim? Try ":syn sync fromstart" (":help syntax" for details)

    5 retweets 11 likes
  9. Retweeted
    17 Oct 2012

    # Learn vim keystrokes while playing an adventure game. If you haven't been here in a while, there are new levels

    4 replies 125 retweets 123 likes
  10. 22 Oct 2012

    Actually, today, in Missouri RT : Tomorrow at 6:30pm: Jedi Text-Editing at Vim Geeks!

    1 reply
  11. 21 Aug 2012

    Handy script to rename files (as opposed to just (:sav)e under a new name) -

    4 retweets 3 likes
  12. Retweeted
    17 Aug 2012

    and Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, 2nd ed. FREE today

    1 reply 33 retweets 8 likes
  13. 4 Feb 2011

    :tabo - Close all tabs except the current tab

    1 reply 7 retweets 10 likes
  14. Retweeted
    21 Jan 2011

    and : show first commit where term under cursor was added: map <leader>1 :!git log --reverse -p -S<cword> %<cr>

    1 reply 17 retweets 27 likes
  15. 10 Jan 2011

    clang complete : Use of Clang for completing C, C++, Objective-C and Objective-C++ - http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3302

    20 retweets 7 likes
  16. 3 Dec 2010

    Double click with the mouse in the non-GUI tab pages line to open a new, empty tab page.

    1 retweet
  17. 25 Nov 2010

    Michael Geddes' keep-case plugin; Do case-insensitive search/replace and keep the original case - http://bit.ly/dSc5rh

    3 retweets 2 likes
  18. 8 Nov 2010

    <C-U> / <C-D> : Move the cursor up/down half a page (also handy, 'set nosol') - See http://bit.ly/bdOH6T

    1 retweet 4 likes
  19. 5 Nov 2010

    set titlestring=%f title : set the file name as terminal title

    1 retweet 5 likes
  20. 4 Nov 2010

    snipMate brings TextMate-like snippets to vim: http://bit.ly/1qF0eT (screen cast included).

    4 retweets 8 likes

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