(Paulie rant coming up;) I delete a line w/ 'dd'. I put it back w/ 'p'... I go into Visual Mode 'v' to select several lines of text, 'dd' it and 'p' it back - but I know I'm using 1% of Vims featureset...
Thats OK tho, right??? I suppose I'll continue to learn - but need to remember to dive in and try to master a new 'thing' every couple days...
At any rate, I'm a Vim user now. Thats not gonna change - week 2 was supposed to be trying neoVim/other Vim implementations... I think I'll
cheatsheet; I need to try and retain and USE more of the vim keybinds... I'm using it in a very basic way still.
Good thing about vim...it's on every linux box usually. Unless you get unlucky and they have vi instead, which is not as fully featured but still powerful. --- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux
Debian doesn't ship with it, I'm pretty sure.. But it could've just be a minimal install?
I never got into the vim vs nvim dogmatic debates but I'd be curious to get your thoughts...I suppose adding lua support to vim could be cool,
but honestly I would prefer to keep it somewhat vanilla as a lot of the SRE shaped work that I do on cloud infra and things like that means I can't do any customization to the user environment, and I'd be stuck
using completely vanilla vim anyway, so would rather have a streamlined mostly basic setup so I could avoid learning patterns and tools that I wouldn't be able to use for actual work purposes :P
Ok, I'll start the challenge. Two weeks? Cool. Are you following any
sort of guide or anything or were you just saying "I will only use vim
for two weeks and see how it goes"?
I'm pretty sure it does come with the minimal version. I have vim, vim-common, vim-runtime and vim-tiny installed. Those do pretty much everything I need. --- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux
These are good ones, I 'know' that theres 3 modes; number, operator, command - so yea, I need to remember to use #dd instead - and I didn't know of 'u' - I was using dd-delete as yy-yank; I'll start getting there, thanks Nelgin.
Thats rad!! I started by running thru Vim tutor 'vimtutor'. 1st week I
was supposed to learn basic navigation and 'things' - but I just learned the BARE minimum... 2nd week I said I was gonna try nvim, which I am -
but I thought I'd know more by now...
There's no real right or wrong way to stuff. It's a matter of preference and what works for you.
Want to compare two files side by side?
vi -O file1 file2
Ok, vimtutor it is. Did you try to run through it in one fell swoop or
did you take it in sections? I've only done the first few exercises and then neglected finishing it so I have no idea how in depth it is :P
vi -O file1 file2
See; thats another cool tool - I need to check all the flags vim/nvim have.
Want to compare two files side by side?
vi -O file1 file2
I did it in sections - I also pulled up a second vim window to the
right, so I could jump over and 'try' the things I was learning...
One 'weird' thing, but I dunno if its my TWM or vim itself; if I have
two vim windows open and pop back and forth between the two - sometimes vim's line numbers/char location gets messed up and I have to exit out
of vim for it to reset - its annoying, but I think its my setup...
anyone else seen that?
vi -O file1 file2
See; thats another cool tool - I need to check all the flags vim/nvim have.
and it will open in the number of panes side by side for each file, if
you wanna swap them to one above the other, just type;
:ba
Jesus; it never ends... I think it'll be years before I get all this. :P
Jesus; it never ends... I think it'll be years before I get all this. :P
Understood - I'm on hyprland, with a 'paulie420 setup' so... yea. :P
Understood - I'm on hyprland, with a 'paulie420 setup' so... yea. :P
Sounds pretty cool, can you send it?
My config dotfiles are at github.com/paulie420/dotfiles... (sp?)
| Sysop: | Shaun Ewing |
|---|---|
| Location: | Blue Mountains, Australia |
| Users: | 195 |
| Nodes: | 16 (0 / 16) |
| Uptime: | 219:14:26 |
| Calls: | 152 |
| Files: | 187,817 |
| Messages: | 328,119 |