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A Vim Guide for Advanced Users
Welcome to the third part of this series aimed to help you unleash a power never seen on Earth using the Almighty Vim. If you don’t understand what’s happening in this article, I recommend you to read the previous ones of the series first:
We’ll see together in this article:
- Some nice keystrokes beginning with
g.- What ranges are and how to use them.
- The quickfix list and the location lists.
- The marvelous substitute command.
- The crazy useful
:global(or:g) command.- What marks are and what you can do with them.
- How to increase and decrease numbers with a single keystroke.
- How to sort text with a nice command.
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davearonson
Holy carp, I’ve been using vi[m] for literally decades, decided to read these to see what advanced tips I could glean, and there’s stuff I didn’t know, even in the beginner one!
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luckylittle
This is a good cheat sheet worth printing out:
https://vim.rtorr.com/
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