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Did you know you can time travel in vim with :earlier and :later? :earlier 30m :later 3h 22m

More Vim tips?

How do you spot a Vim user at a meetup? Don’t worry. They’ll tell you.

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“…the people who do use Vim are completely insufferable.” johnwhiles.com/posts/vimming-…

Her: He’s probably talking to other girls. Me:

@ed1conf Pretty sure that’s how the recent FB outage happened.

If someone is using vim to edit their /etc/hosts file during a workshop to look clever, feel free to keep them humble by using ed(1). ;-)

Check in on your non-Vim friends.

The start of the end. github.com/skywind3000/vi…

@jasonkarns I like this 🤔

@vimgifs Vim's power is in tightly focused, internally consistent design. The capabilities one can build of such a tight _consistent_ core are the multipliers.

Hot take: Vim’s power isn’t in it making you more efficient or productive in the LoC sense; it’s about instilling discipline, terseness, and focus, which are subsets of the former. Thoughts?

@clementd Typing at the speed of thought, I once read. It’s mad how you can fire out the most convoluted of chains without even thinking about it.

@FeatherOrNot Other editors?!

What is your favourite text editor and why is it Vim?

Guy behind me on this flight: Are you using Vim? Me:

Vim is 2018’s fifth most-popular text editor.

@kyleshevlin My config is relatively well documented. /@csswizardry

📽 Slides from my @AWWWARDS Berlin talk, ‘Vim for Front-end Developers’: speakerdeck.com/csswizardry/vi…

Use `Ctrl-w _` to make a split full height. Use `Ctrl-w |` to make a split full width. Use `Ctrl-w =` to equalise all sizes.

@0x6a6f686e Subtly different things: gg=G will neaten/reformat code, whereas :retab just changes the whitespace.

Reformat an existing file to match your current tab/space settings with `:retab`