Advanced Multiline Editing in Neovim

In this video I walk through how to use many different techniques to edit multiple lines at once in Neovim. Visual Block Mode, Regex search and replace, vim-visual-multi plugin, and many more!
Multiline Editing Pt 1: • Multiline Editing in N...
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0:00 Intro
0:56 Personal Thoughts
1:37 Selecting Text
4:28 Changing Text
5:20 Surrounding Text
9:15 Multiline Swaps
11:33 Renaming Variables
13:57 Outro
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[@mbwilding]

This was great. Thanks for the regex tips too!

[@cody_codes_youtube]

Yo, new camera angle! Love it!

[@JamieAlban]

seems useful - I use a lot of q macros to do a lot of these multi-location editing things, but sometimes it gets awkward or challenging to record a sufficiently accurate macro the first time. The instant visual feedback seems more forgiving.

[@jettlaggg]

I wanna see more neovim content! new sub!

[@ascourter]

Thanks! Just recorded a video on my Telescope config so hopefully can get that one editing soon and launched! Let me know if there are other topics you are interested in.

[@neunmalelf]

Good Voice 👍 Nicely done content.

[@cody_codes_youtube]

Nice dude, I enjoyed the video. I didn't know you could do this stuff. What are you using to do the key press recording?

[@ascourter]

Thanks! There's a surprising number of ways I've found. That screen key capture is called KeyCastr

[@irfanfauzi8704]

Love your vids

[@ascourter]

Thank you! Working on a video for LazyVim v10 that released today. Hope to release soon!

[@irfanfauzi8704]

Keep it up man. We need more neovim content.

[@farzadmf]

VERY nice video, thank you!
Question: how have you configured your which-key to show Visual-Multi's menu when pressing m?

[@ascourter]

I believe that is out of the box behavior. Here is a link to my Neovim config to check out: github.com/exosyphon/nvim

[@farzadmf]

Hmmm, interesting. I think my visual multi's setup is similar, but for some reason, I don't see the bindings in which-key.
I thought it might because I'm lazy loading my plugins, but that doesn't seem to be reason.

[@sumitsinghdeode2138]

This is great vidoe but I am using mac and C+down and C+Up make the iterm window to move hwo to fix it?

[@ascourter]

Thanks! If I understand what you are saying, it sounds like you want to use C+down / C+up but the iterm window is grabbing that keybinding? If so, check in your iterm settings for what your keybindings are. You might also check your System Settings and make sure those keybindings are not mapped there too.

[@darkarie]

I think a lot of these could be done with substitutions, right?

[@ascourter]

Yeah you can accomplish a lot with substitutions but some of these might be less mental overhead or fewer keystrokes.

[@darkarie]

yes, in any case the are a lot of over head that can be reduced in substitutions if you use brackets, /1 and regex patterns

[@darkarie]

of course you need to get used to it to be fast like everything in vim, but at the end it can be more powerful

[@diaryofafounder]

Hey,
I'm struggling to get vim-visual-multi installed in neovim.
I've added this to my config:
{
'mg979/vim-visual-multi',
branch = "master",
lazy = false,
init = function ()
vim.g.VM_maps = {
["Find Under"] = ""
}
end,
},
But no luck (unable to run :help visual-multi)
Do you have a video somewhere on how to setup vim-visual-multi in Nvim?

[@ascourter]

Sorry you're having trouble! I don't have a video explicitly installing and setting it up unfortunately. In my config I only have { "mg979/vim-visual-multi" },
Maybe try that and see if it will install. github.com/exosyphon/nvim/blob/2c275382a2ead9d4e0e160e7251eb191f92cf28d/lua/exosyphon/lazy.lua#L860

[@diaryofafounder]

@@ascourter no worries, thank you for sharing. Interesting that is the only line you have and it works for you! I'll have to see if anything else is conflicting.

[@suhendrapembelajar]

how to change C-down to C-j in mac. because C-down is use as global key in mac to minimize/select mac windows.

[@ascourter]

I personally deactivated most of the global Mac keyboard shortcuts but you should be able to customize inside System Settings. As an alternative you could add a keyboard shortcut specifically for your terminal application.
support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-a-conflicting-keyboard-shortcut-on-mac-mchlp2864/mac

[@JamieAlban]

that's a TINY keyboard

[@husrevmustafalale2369]

Am I the only one who cannot select a word using ctrl + n (I tried ctrl + N also)?

[@ascourter]

Check if you have any conflicts using lua require('telescope.builtin').keymaps