If you're like me, you fiddle around with your development setup and dotfiles frequently tweaking and breaking things and learning along the way. I only recently found out that you could have comments on Vim appear in Italics. All you need to do is add hi... (more…)

More neat tricks with Vim, this time inspired by BBEdit’s Shell Worksheets. With these mappings, you can hit Ctrl-Enter on a line to execute it as a shell command and replace it with its output. Ctrl-Shift-Enter will preserve the command line above its ou... (more…)

And no, it is not because I cannot figure out how to close it. (more…)

Recently, I was taking an online course in preparation for the Kubernetes exam. In the labs I had an broken Kubernetes configuration which I needed to fix only by editing it using Vim. Every time the lab started the environment was created from scratch an... (more…)

VimTricks publishes tips, tricks, and more all about Vim, the text editor. Each edition features a succinct tip about how to improve your skills and workflow with Vim. Aimed at new users and experienced Vim-users alike. (more…)