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Matt Rogers
Matt Rogers

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Short Vim Tips #1 - Working with sentences

Did you know that Vim has some decent motions for working with sentences. I was reminded of this while doing some markdown editing in Vim earlier today. Here are the motions:

( - Delete sentences backwards
) - Delete sentences forwards

Combining those with a few common operations in Vim let's you work some editing magic:

d( - delete the sentence before your cursor
d) - delete the sentence after your cursor

c( - delete the sentence before your cursor
c) - delete the sentence after your cursor

I rediscovered these earlier today and hopefully they'll help you too. Until next time! 👋

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