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Vim Tip: Handling Long Lines of Text
When you’re using Vim to read log files or write blog posts, one problem that you may come up against is wrapping long lines of text. Vim, being the powerful editor that it is, can handle this in...
read articleVim Tip: Temporary Key Mappings
One trick that I often use with Vim is temporarily mapping keys for tasks I need to perform in my current context. For example, when working on a small Ruby script, I may want to run it a few times to...
read articleVim Tip: How to Use Vertical Guides
Vertical guides are a feature of most modern text editors that are useful when aligning text. Programmers typically use these to ensure that their code is indented properly or doesn’t exceed a certain...
read articleVim Tip: How to Display Whitespace Characters
One of the things that took me awhile to figure out when I started using Vim was how to display whitespace characters. Whitespace characters are characters that take up space in a document but are not...
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