vim Snippets

Moving around

• f and F will jump the character on the line that you enter. Shift F will go backwards.
• t and T are similar but will put you one character in front of where you want go
• gu and gU - and number for lines to make upper or lower case.

Showing Spaces

:set listchars=eol:$,tab:>-,trail:~,space:␣
:set list

The space:␣ is gold. Thank you loxaxs!

Preventing Indenting when Commenting

You’ll need to add the following to any filetype. (In this case we’re showing # and yaml)

set indentkeys-=0#

autocmd FileType yaml setlocal ts=2 sts=2 sw=2 expandtab indentkeys-=0#

Block Editing

Enter visual mode: Control-V Select lines: eg. 5j for the next 5 lines Enter Insert with Shift-I Type stuff/make changes Hit Escape