Vim filters are cool. They let you run the content of your current buffer through a command and have its output returned into the bugger. That means that you can use filters to edit text using any command your operating system has available. Now on a Linux machine that’s quite handy. On a Windows machine […]
Vim has tons of awesome shortcuts and features you pick up over time. Some of those I don’t use every day so I have to write them down so I can look them back up when I can’t remember exactly how it works. Instead of keeping them locked away in a text file, I’ll throw […]
Vim is a great lightweight editor as it is. But after setting it all up on your windows box and tweaking your _vimrc it still might lack that bit of awesome you’re looking for in a modern text editor. Time to spice things up with plugins! Vim plugins are written in viml or vimscript, an […]
One thing that annoyed me about using Vim was how many keystrokes it took to indent or un-indent a few selected lines of code. My (probably less than ideal) way of doing that was to go into visual mode, select the lines with the movement keys J or K, then use the keys to change […]