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What are the dark corners of Vim your mom never told you about? [closed]

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April 20, 2022
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Make Vim show ALL white spaces as a character

I can’t find a way to make Vim show all white spaces as a character. All I found was about tabs, trailing spaces ...

April 19, 2022
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How do I use vim registers?

I only know of one instance using registers is via CtrlR* whereby I paste text from a clipboard. What are other uses of ...

April 15, 2022
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What is your most productive shortcut with Vim?

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April 14, 2022
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How to effectively work with multiple files in Vim

I’ve started using Vim to develop Perl scripts and am starting to find it very powerful. One thing I like is to be ...

April 14, 2022
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How do I move to end of line in Vim?

I know how to generally move around in command mode, specifically, jumping to lines, etc. But what is the command to jump to ...

April 13, 2022
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Tab key == 4 spaces and auto-indent after curly braces in Vim

How do I make vi-Vim never use tabs (converting spaces to tabs, bad!), makes the tab key == 4 spaces, and automatically indent ...

April 13, 2022
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How to duplicate a whole line in Vim?

How do I duplicate a whole line in Vim in a similar way to Ctrl+D in IntelliJ IDEA/ Resharper or Ctrl+Alt+↑/↓ in Eclipse? ...

April 10, 2022
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How to replace a character by a newline in Vim

I’m trying to replace each , in the current file by a new line: :%s/,/\n/g But it inserts what looks like a ^@ ...

April 10, 2022
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Indent multiple lines quickly in vi

It should be trivial, and it might even be in the help, but I can’t figure out how to navigate it. How do ...

April 10, 2022
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