Tag: neovim
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Neovim vs Vim
I started in Vim, but after a while, I replaced Vim with Neovim. I find that Neovim has more sensible defaults, “looks” better, and has good Language Server Protocol (LSP) integration and syntax highlighting plugins. I also prefer the Lua configuration setup in Neovim compared to Vim and Vimscript, even though I don’t do a…
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Basic Vim movements
These are pretty much the keys I use to move around in Vim (or Neovim). Key Explanation h Move the cursor left. j Move the cursor down. k Move the cursor up. l Move the cursor right. gg Go to the first line of the document. G Go to the last line of the document…
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Helpful Vim commands
Vim has a lot of built-in commands that are very helpful. The following table lists commands I tend to use often. However, this is not even the tip of the command iceberg Vim offers. Command Explanation :%s/foo/bar/g Replace all instances of “foo” with “bar”. :g/foobar/d Delete all lines containing “foobar”. d$ Delete the current line…