#vimtricks — Public Fediverse posts

Stop editing at 10% of Vim's power. Master registers, :norm, fuzzy completion, linematch diff, and 16 more Vim tips and tricks. Tested on latest Vim 9.2.

Full guide here: https://ostechnix.com/vim-tricks/

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Copy to system clipboard from #vim guide:

1. In your ~/.vimrc set
set clipboard=unnamed

2. Open a file and yank whatever you want, in this example we yank lines 4 and 5 to system clipboard; in command mode, type 4,5y *
set ts=2
set sts=2
set sw=2
filetype off
filetype plugin indent on
syntax on
set expandtab

3. Profit
Paste anywhere you want
filetype off
filetype plugin indent on

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And when you need the full completion madness in the command line, for example when you're editing complex Regular Expression statements, simply type `q:` from normal mode and you get the full Vim editing power in an editable command history window.
Simply type your command line statement (or select an older one) and press <CR> to execute the command line under the cursor. See :help q:

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#Vim hint of the week (because I'm searching this regulary again):
You can insert the word under the cursor while in command mode with:
<CTRL-R><CTRL-W>
This comes in handy when you want to [s]ubstitute a word, without having it to retype again.

:%s/<CTRL-R><CTRL-W>/newWord/g

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