New vim tricks

I’ve been using Vim since 2006, and it’s still my favorite text editor. My current job requires me to live in Visual Studio, so I’m using VsVim, a mostly-compatible Vim mode layered on top of the Visual Studio editor. My .vimrc file, plugins, and syntax files are on my GitHub account.

Since Vim is such an important part of my development toolset, I’m always interested to learn new tricks and techniques to make it more efficient. A coworker gave a presentation on Vim today. It was intended as an introduction, but he managed to teach me quite a few useful new things in the process. Here are a few of them:

Here are a few favorites that I’ve learned over the past few months: