I’d like actual examples instead of “I work faster”, something like “I can move straight to the middle of the file with 7mv” or “I can keep 4 different text snippets in memory and paste each with a number+pt, like 2pt”, things that you actually use somewhat frequently instead of what you can do, but probably only did once.

  • I Cast FistOP
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    62 months ago

    Bouncing on parentheses with % makes structured files easy to get around in.

    That’s something I wasn’t aware you could do in vim. % jumps to the next parentheses character, whether ( or )? Does it work with brackets and curly braces too?

    • @litchralee
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      62 months ago

      So far as I’m aware, yes. As a C engineer, it’s also useful for jumping from #ifdef to #endif .

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      It generally works with a wide variety of delimiters. There’s a widely used plugin to make it work with even more, including language-specific keyword pairs.