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3 Little Known But Useful Vim Tips

jovica on November 26, 2018

I'll show you three tips which can be incredibly useful, yet, they are very little known. Tip #1 - Open/edit/save archives Running a...
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Nicolas Cuervo

I always enjoy some good vim tips!

I blame my memory because I already knew about the 'ctrl+o' one, but otherwise I wouldn't have this feeling of rediscovery.

I've followed the twitter account from MasteringVim for a long while and it's fantastic. Thanks a lot for your work!

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jovica

Thanks for the kind words Nicolas! :)

For the others, it's this account: twitter.com/masteringvim

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Sacquer
Ctrl + i / Ctrl + o
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

forward / backward

Give us more @jovica !

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janac meena

Was not expecting the title to be accurate!

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Mac Siri

Interesting tips!

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Andrey Alferov

I knew 1 and 2 tips, but tip #3 is surprising me.

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Álvaro Cáceres Muñoz

Amazing! Thanks for sharing

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Ondrej

Cool tips, thanks!

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Shailesh Kumar

The third tip is dope!

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DownloadPizza

I knew the zip, I could have guessed the scp. But holy Lord the ctrl-o is a godsend