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Extract all URLs used as value in attributes from a HTML source file in 22 chars?

:%!grep -o 'http[^"]\+'

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Substitute all Unicode Escaped matches with its Unicode representations in the whole file

:%s/\\u\(.\{4}\)/\=nr2char(str2nr(submatch(1),16))/g

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CTRL+Shift+^

Edit the alternate file. Mostly the alternate file is the previously edited file. This is a quick way to toggle between two files.

It works even after a :bd (unload buffer)

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Delete in the whole file, N lines before and M lines after MATCH (line with MATCH too).

:g/MATCH/-N,+Md

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Substitute every occurrence of '0' with incremental values:

:let @a=0 | %s/0/\=(@a+setreg('a',@a+1))/g

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Have you ever tried Visual-Block copy/paste?

'a','','c'
'a','','c'
b
b

1. Ctrl+V (start visual block selection)
2. y
3. p

'a','b','c'
'a','b','c'

Multi-line (block) copy/paste!

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Insert FILE content below the cursor:
:r FILE

Insert COMMAND output below the cursor:
:r !COMMAND

Yay 🤠

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Move each line that match `pattern` at the top ( address 0 ).

:g/pattern/m0

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Insert an external file content in the current cursor position:
:read FILENAME
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<c-r> REG (example <c-r> /)
Paste REG, ( '/' last search pattern ) in command line mode (' : '). Really useful to search & replace!

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:%s//New String/g
Substitute last search ( / or ? ) pattern. 🤠

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Copy all lines matching a pattern to EOF.

:g/pattern/t$

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Generate an HTML representation of your source code automatically, with syntax highlights!
Try it now, type in Normal Mode :TOHtml

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Generate an HTML representation of your source code automatically, with syntax highlights!
Try it now :TOHtml

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Do you know that you can use a different separator character rather than / in substitute command?

:s@\n@\r@g

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1️⃣ :g/PATTERN/t$
2️⃣ :g/PATTERN/m$

Copy (1️⃣) / move (2️⃣) all lines matching PATTERN to EOF.

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s/WORD
Erase WORD in the current line.

Substitute can be used as eraser and you can type only the first delimiter, it is enough!

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:g/PATTERN/m$ [move]
:g/PATTERN/t$ [copy]

Move "m" or Copy "t" each occurrences of "PATTERN" at the End "$" of the current file.

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Copy every email occurrence in current file to register.

:%s/[^ ]\+@[^ ]\+/\=setreg('A',submatch(0) . "\n")/n

Upper case register name append values, so remember to clear it. Yeah, I know.. email regex is weird but you get the point! 😉

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Select the whole paragraph. Visual A Paragraph or VAP in normal mode!

vap

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