@tobi As much as I love TextMate, I've come to realize the folly of being tied to one commercial OS on the basis of an editor. I considered going all-in on VSCode, but if I'm going to switch editor after 20 years, I'd like it to be my last change. Vim will be here and free in 100 years
If you have the jq command https://t.co/vPsCmoHQ9R installed, you can use it to format JSON in Vim!
On the line where you have a large JSON object:
{ "foo": { "bar": { "foo_id": null, "bar_id": 98765, "baz_id": 12345 } } }
Run:
:.!jq .
Vim bang operator/cmd: :h !
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The vim-yoink plugin lets you to yank multiple times and quickly choose which yanked text to paste (with Ctrl-n/Ctrl-p).
If you use copy/paste often, check it out!
https://t.co/mDFRR6OSVK
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If you want to resize, swap, and move windows, the winresizer plugin (https://t.co/6lKmM78eUb) can quickly resize your vim window with its resize mode.
Check it out!
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There are 5 different history commands in Vim:
:his c or : - command-line history (q:)
:his s or / or ? - search history (q/ or q?)
:his e or = - expression history
:his i or @ - input history
:his d or > - debug history
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= is the filter operator (by default it indents). If you want to indent the entire buffer, run:
gg=G
- gg goes to the top
- =G indent operator + all the way to the bottom
Use `` to go back to the original location.
Try: gg=G``
More:
https://t.co/qjnzs74jVR
:h =
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If you use fugitive.vim, you can use git grep to use a keyword in a specific branch / SHA
:Ggrep MY_FOO some-branch
:Ggrep MY_FOO some-sha
Useful if you want to see if / how a text looks like in a different branch
:h :Ggrep
https://t.co/0mQAZHvKcM
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To reverse two words, you can use this substitution:
:s/\(\w\+\) \(\w\+\)/\2 \1/g
This will reverse "strawberry chocolate" into "chocolate strawberry"
If you think there's too many backslash, you can use \v:
:s/\v(\w+) (\w+)/\2 \1/g
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Let's say you have:
apples
oranges
apples
bananas
To search for apples FOLLOWED BY bananas (and not apples followed by oranges), you can use a multi-line search
/apples\_.bananas
:h \_x
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Last time we looked at :vimgrep to search for keywords.
:vimgrep /Waffles/ app/**/*.rb
To add more results into your last search, you can use :vimgrepa. To also search for Pancakes:
:vimgrepa /Pancakes/ app/**/*.rb
Now you have a list of Waffles AND Pancakes.
#vim
Vim has an internal grep to search for texts in files, :vimgrep.
If I want to search "Waffles" inside ruby files inside app/ directory:
:vimgrep /Waffles/ app/**/*.rb
To display the quickfix list result:
:copen
Try it!
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When you pass multiple file names when you run Vim from the terminal (vim bar.rb foobar.lua), Vim stores those files inside the argument lists, which you can access with
:args
You can navigate through the argument lists with :next, :prev, :first, :last.
:h arglist
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