Vim Editing Features
Discussions focus on Vim commands, plugins, and techniques for cursor movement, text selection, multi-cursor editing, and navigation, often comparing them to features in editors like Sublime Text or alternatives like Kakoune and EasyMotion.
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yes vim does this. same commands.
I suppose this is useful for implementing Vim-like functionality, not as an usage manual.
Take a look at multiple cursor mode for this.
like laser guidance for your vim commands. very handy!
You can activate Vintage mode (vi mode). Isn't 100% the same as vi but for me it does the job :-)
Dont forget `*` and `#`. Idk if other editors have this now, but before learning vim, I used to ctrl+shift+arrow_keys to select a word, ctrl+c, ctrl+f, ctrl+v, Enter in order to move around in code. Discovering `*` and `#` in vim was mindblowing
"cruise control" for vi :)
right? does it do something other than e.g. ` [ctrl-v]3jI ` ?
I think you're referring to multiple cursors? Visual-Multi [0] is an amazing Vim plugin for this with advanced features like searching by regex, alignment by regex, transposition, duplication, auto-numbering, and more.You can ignore the advanced features at first, it's very intuitive: just `C-n` to find the next occurrence of the word or `\\a` to find all, and then whatever editing operation you want like `cfoobar`. Or to just get another cursor on the line below, `C-<
Can vim do multi-cursor editing? Like how sublime text can?