I've always been a minimalist when it comes to configuration files.
I like to be able to switch to other computers which may or may not have my settings. The fewer settings I have, the quicker I can get a working environment up and running.
If you like configuring your setup feel free to go crazy...
Vim is hard. Vim is awesome. Vim is for old people.
Everyone has an opinion. Here's mine.
I've been using Vim for over 10 years. ...
It took me years to start using two of the most helpful Vim navigation commands available.
My excuse for not using them was that I would always forget what they were.
In the past I would just w and b to go forwards and backwards a word at a time until I got close to where I wanted to be.
Ther...
Before providing my own views on what Vim is, let's take a look at what the official documentation has to say:
Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. - http://www.vim.org
The ...
Copying a line (yy)
Moving down a few lines (j)
Pasting in your copied line above the line you're trying to replace (p)
Moving to the line you were trying to replace and deleting it (dd)
Getting frustrated because you w...