Vim Tips with Ben

Ben Orenstein answers your burning questions about Vim in three minutes or less. Want your question answered? Ask r00k on Twitter. Powered by briefs.fm.

Whole line completion

ctrl-x ctrl-l. So handy!

02-25
00:41

Time travel in your buffer

:earlier and :later

02-25
00:39

Buffers, Marks, and Registers

Which are worth knowing?

02-03
01:47

My Vim theme

And why I don't care that much about them.

02-03
00:41

Marks and Registers

Which are worth knowing?

02-03
02:19

Which theme do I use?

jellybeans, but meh.

02-03
00:29

What are leader commands?

Holy crap. Your mind is about to be blown.

02-03
02:17

How to find and replace across multiple files

Greplace.vim. Or unimpaired.vim and quick fingers.

02-03
01:05

Automatically extracting a method

No good answer :(. I need your help on this one. Do you have a good answer?

02-03
01:09

Using tags

Jump to method definitions quickly. Worth knowing about!

02-03
01:35

Sublime and other slow editors

Editing speed is a big deal.

02-02
01:24

Thoughts on NERDTree

Reclaim your real estate!

02-02
00:57

Console Vim or GUI Vim?

Console for me, but both work.

02-02
00:49

How should one navigate a Rails project?

Fuzzy finding, leader commands, and Rails.vim, my friends.

02-02
01:07

How much do I hate emacs?

Zero percent.

02-02
01:02

What is your favorite Vim plugin or command?

Tough question, Internet.

02-02
01:24

Using Vim Without tmux?!

Maybe just don't?

02-02
00:51

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