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3 Vim commands for blazingly fast navigation between brackets ⚡

Max Shen on February 24, 2024

There are often lots of brackets within a programming file. Therefore the efficiency of navigating between them becomes crucial for the overall pro...
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Mirzalazuardi Hermawan

Thats why i use vim

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Alex

How didn’t I know about this before… Okay, time to do some practice!

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Sy Tran Dung

Python dev sit in corner.

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Dennis

Great plugins to improve handling brackets are:
Old but good, this Tim Pope's plugin: github.com/tpope/vim-surround
If you are in the Neovim world using Lua plugins: github.com/kylechui/nvim-surround

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Gokay Buruc

Year 2024 and which-key.nvim is still the best plugin.

Which-key.nvim

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william maina

Honestly for me the % is not working, please advice