[vox-tech] serendipity with vim

Karsten M. Self vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Sun, 4 Apr 2004 15:01:29 -0700


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on Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 06:16:21AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman (p@dirac.org) w=
rote:
> heh.  at 6:15 in the morning, it blew my mind.  it took a few seconds to
> register what was going on.
>=20
> if anybody has any vim tips they'd like to share, i'd love to see a
> thread of people's favorite vim tricks.
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> here's another one i learned just recently:
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>=20
> 1 one
> 2 two
> 3 three
> 4 four
> 5 five
> 6 six
> 7 seven
> 8 eight
> 9 nine
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> use line highlighting (shift v) and highlight lines 4, 5, and 6.
> type "zf".
> you've now "folded" lines 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6:
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> 1 one
> +--  5 lines: 2----------------------------------------------------
> 7 seven
> 8 eight
> 9 nine

You'll discover split screens RSN I suppose.


Peace.

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