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🚨 I misspoke!! 🚨 Typically with Vim videos, I tend to do them from top-of-my-head knowledge. For some reason, I always think of the "substitute" command as "sed". "s" is substitute, not "sed" sorry for any confusion, hope you like the video!!
/g in sed command means global in line, not in entire file. So without /g replacement will be done for the first occurrence in each line where we have matching
To add to the %, this is really a range, that means the whole buffer. Most commands accepts a range at the beginning and there are a few shortcuts for ranges: :x,y. from lines x to y : .,y '.' means the current line so it's current line to y :'
Did you know you can append to a named register? “xY will yank the current line into register x. “XY will append the current line to register x. This lets you build up a register to paste later. For example: you want to grab a couple lines of code from several locations and paste them into a new function, you can gather them all into that register and then do one paste when you have them assembled. Also, because a macro is just executing a register, you can edit a macro by pasting the contents of the register, modify it, then yank the new macro back into the register ready to run the modified macro. One last item: a macro can call another macro or even itself. Writing recursive macros to update thousands of lines can be quite satisfying, but is most useful if making a regex substitution is just too difficult or not quite fully repeatable.
On the subject of upper case registers. If you record to an upper case register you will append to what is in that register rather than replace it. That is very useful if you forget something :)
I am a beginner, I hated VIM at first and I told myself I would never touch it again. But I kept learning things little by little. Your channel helped me a lot, it has made me fall in love with VIM. I am also following your playlist to learn to make my own Neovim config. Thanks nerd!
Hi! I’m a content creator in the same space, and I really appreciate the quality of your videos and the work it requires to create them. This video is a great guide for beginners and showcases the power of vim editing in such an effortless way, Keep up the good work!
will toggle between the current and previous buffers, you can mash it to go back and forth kinda like harpoon. Also lets you go backwards in the jump table if you wana navigate back a line or two or three etc.
This was exactly what I was looking for! I've been using vim for the last 10 years, but ive always used the basics and what I have to use to get the job done. This is going to take me to the next level. Your videos are amazing, and I thank you for them!
%s already targets the whole file, the /g (global) replaces every occurrence of the word, not just the first of every line Super helpful video though! Didn’t know how to use registers, thanks a lot!
Great tips! With macros you can do @@ to replay last played macro. Also while recording a macro,.you can also replay that macro inifonitely until vim.encounters an error. I.e. for your example qah //start recording into h i"E", // addquotes around word, then add comma @h //.start replaying entire macro recursively, i.e. this will keep replaying the 'h' macro until error encountered. A couple more register tips. Add to init.vim or .vimrc set clipboard unnamedplus //Always yank/paste from system clipboard. One register tip: "_d //delete without overwriting default register In visual mode.ypu can do P to paste without overwriting. Here's a couple other honorable mentions. Use the global command to delete all lines containing search. :g/search/d And its inverse (delete lines not containing search) :!/search/d
Thanks, learned some new things! You can also create an autocommand to briefly highlight whatever you're yanking. Then you don't need to go into visual mode first.
ugh you're totally right! (and not the first to point this out). With vim stuff, I tend to do this from the top of my head. for some reason "s" has always been "sed" in my head :)
oh and another tip with macros that's powerful is to combine it with the norm command in visual mode. so instead of 5@a to perform the macro for the following 5 lines, I'll just make a visual selection of the lines I want to apply the macro to, hit colon then 'norm @@' to apply it on each line. similar can be done with the dot command, 'norm .' to perform the last change on every line (i remap this to g. )
Thanks for the stuff about registers. Ive been heavily using vim for 3 months and hadnt come across the need for it, but i can see where it will be useful
Nice video, just one thing : Register copy commands ("+y") on the system clipboard will not work on some Linux system with wayland. You can reproduce this problem on a fresh install of fedora 40 . The reason ? -> no Wayland clipboard, you can fix it with your package manager in your linux distro , (Red Hat land : sudo dnf install wl-clipboard). This is pretty bad to not have that by default. It is better on any system to check clipboard support before trying to do that.
8:08 I didn't realize you could assign registers to each other like that. And I almost made it through the video without learning anything! Great video though. These are all really good to know.
damn, the amount of the helpful things in the comments is way more what is in the video ,thanks typecraft and all of the comments love my vim community
I used vi for 35 years now and I got quick and efficient, vi under my skin. I didn't miss anything until now I know what i could have missed :-) Thanks a lot!
Here is a super-duper pro tip (blazingly fast and free as GPL3) "Use Alt key with commands in INSERT mode" this is the foundation of the forgotten typing art, revive it to unleash full power of the modal text editor :)
Also for macros, once you run @h (or whichever register you're using) you can just type @@ to run it agan. I usually do a ballpark guess, like 5@h, and then just hit @@ to finish the last few lines. Macros also work with search, so it is much more capable than just editing big contiguous sets of lines.
I think that :s is for substitute and not sed. Not an important detail but I think it's better to clarify so then when invoking the :help command one looks for :help substitute. Thanks for the great content!
My mind has been blow. I know vim/nvim is powerful, didn't realise just how amazing ot could be. Admittedly, i wont be able to remember all of this, but i will probably start using nvim :). Then slowly learn these as i need them
To save and close, try shift ZZ. Also, you can change each matching word using sed inside vim. :1,$s;oldword;newword; and plenty of other sed commands. Old school stuff which has been around since vi in the 90s at least.
As in Vim/Neovim it is very important whether a letter is capital or not, it might confuse people if you display capital letters in the overlay in instances where in fact they are not capital
OMFG WTH!! I've been using vi then vim and now nvim for 30 years and I didn't a know a couple of these commands and the diff between the registers. Omg!! Thanks loads for the video @typecraft and love all the other comments from folks with good tips, vi just never stops giving
@@roniqueh96 Yes, I remembered this later that day and couldn't agree more. It only makes sense in the event you're on the first character of the word.
Outstanding. I have a questions. The % register, in my mac, holds the full path and filename. How do I access just the filename and extension without the absolute path? (Been looking for it, but can't see if this is a setting or I have to look elsewhere.)
Linux has the + and * registers for the system. Since it has two different clipboards active at the same time usually. One is the one you use with ctrl+c/v and the other one is highlight and middle click.
actually, I don't remember if is actually my own config cause I set it up a few years ago, but for me "%p paste the absolute path(plus the name)of the file I'm currently in and imoo is kinda useful if you need to paste that to variables and stuff. Great video btw
I don't mean to be pedantic but :s stands for :substitute not sed. Also in that command the '%' sign is used to tell :substitute to work on the entire file. The /g option, instead, means operate globally on the line.
Thanks for this! I learnt a few things I was unfamiliar with. Am I the only one who finds the use of " for registers awkward somehow? It's not really any different to any other key. Probably my brain is expecting to type a closing " somewhere and it messes me up!
Should be mentioned the 0-9 registers doesn't quite work as you mentioned here. 0 will always contain the last yanked text, but 1-9 will only be populated if the text deleted is bigger than one line.
Is there any way to configure vim buffer font, without setting the font of the terminal? I mean to have two different fonts for vim and the terminal that runs vim.
It's a nice, well made video, but it's kinda missing the point in the usage terms. 'c' is not a motion, but rather it's an operator, which is important since the whole concept that vim works on is that you can use any oparator (like c for change) with any motion (like $ to jump to the end of a line) to perform that operation in the range between current character and the character at the end of the motion.
I really enjoy watching your videos and helpful tricks (thanks for making me redo my linux / vim config 300 times !) What I really lack (or am I too dumb to find one??) is a way to send some http requests, parse the result and store for example a token in a variable for future requests or even send a request that will first trigger my auth request to get the token automatically! Kind of postman / insomnia stuff. I have been struggeling with .http and .env files to get something I could use on all env for work
ledur(??) ... le dur(??) ... L-D-U-R ... Left-Down-Up-Right(!!) ... as a non native english speaker I really hat to think about what you mean 🙂but it totally makes sense. Thank you!
You should also try #. It has the same thing as * but in the opposite direction. But remember: n and N on according to the direction of your previous search.
Personally I’ve never been able to get into macros. They always seem to be too much trouble. I could do your example just as fast with visual block mode as I can with a macro.
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🚨 I misspoke!! 🚨
Typically with Vim videos, I tend to do them from top-of-my-head knowledge. For some reason, I always think of the "substitute" command as "sed".
"s" is substitute, not "sed" sorry for any confusion, hope you like the video!!
thank u daddy, took the vim pill because of u
awesome video, thank you for the macro ;) all devs should love it
Another way I've seen this done is :0,$s/find/replace/
v + i + w + y (to copy the selected word) can be done with y + i + w (yank inside word)
Or if ur at the beggining of a word just yw
/g in sed command means global in line, not in entire file. So without /g replacement will be done for the first occurrence in each line where we have matching
Indeed! What makes it global is the %
@@zerdofish9989 when i first learned this i realized you can select lines in visual mode and run substitute on just this range of lines. :'
To add to the %, this is really a range, that means the whole buffer. Most commands accepts a range at the beginning and there are a few shortcuts for ranges:
:x,y. from lines x to y
: .,y '.' means the current line so it's current line to y
:'
Thought the exact same thing XD
Thsnks! I didn't know this.
Did you know you can append to a named register? “xY will yank the current line into register x. “XY will append the current line to register x. This lets you build up a register to paste later. For example: you want to grab a couple lines of code from several locations and paste them into a new function, you can gather them all into that register and then do one paste when you have them assembled.
Also, because a macro is just executing a register, you can edit a macro by pasting the contents of the register, modify it, then yank the new macro back into the register ready to run the modified macro.
One last item: a macro can call another macro or even itself. Writing recursive macros to update thousands of lines can be quite satisfying, but is most useful if making a regex substitution is just too difficult or not quite fully repeatable.
Sounds like a video in itself
Macros are executing registers!!!!?!
@@CoClock 🤯 right? Try it yourself.
Record macro x
qxcawfooq
Paste the contents of register x
“xp
On the subject of upper case registers.
If you record to an upper case register you will append to what is in that register rather than replace it. That is very useful if you forget something :)
Omg, this is super powerful!
I am a beginner, I hated VIM at first and I told myself I would never touch it again. But I kept learning things little by little. Your channel helped me a lot, it has made me fall in love with VIM. I am also following your playlist to learn to make my own Neovim config. Thanks nerd!
Hi! I’m a content creator in the same space, and I really appreciate the quality of your videos and the work it requires to create them. This video is a great guide for beginners and showcases the power of vim editing in such an effortless way, Keep up the good work!
Thanks!!
will toggle between the current and previous buffers, you can mash it to go back and forth kinda like harpoon. Also lets you go backwards in the jump table if you wana navigate back a line or two or three etc.
And the pairing to travel back forward in the jump table (use "o"ut and "i"n as the mnemonic).
If you already have it already highlighted by the *, you can simply :%s//replacement/g, you don’t have to repeat what was highlighted
This was exactly what I was looking for! I've been using vim for the last 10 years, but ive always used the basics and what I have to use to get the job done. This is going to take me to the next level. Your videos are amazing, and I thank you for them!
%s already targets the whole file, the /g (global) replaces every occurrence of the word, not just the first of every line
Super helpful video though! Didn’t know how to use registers, thanks a lot!
this was a WICKED useful vid. getting into nvim slowly and this really helped me lvl up
So much value in 10 mins. Thank you, nerd!
bring the part 2 with more 50 commands
You got it
Great tips!
With macros you can do @@ to replay last played macro.
Also while recording a macro,.you can also replay that macro inifonitely until vim.encounters an error.
I.e. for your example
qah //start recording into h
i"E", // addquotes around word, then add comma
@h //.start replaying entire macro recursively, i.e. this will keep replaying the 'h' macro until error encountered.
A couple more register tips.
Add to init.vim or .vimrc
set clipboard unnamedplus
//Always yank/paste from system clipboard.
One register tip:
"_d //delete without overwriting default register
In visual mode.ypu can do P to paste without overwriting.
Here's a couple other honorable mentions.
Use the global command to delete all lines containing search.
:g/search/d
And its inverse (delete lines not containing search)
:!/search/d
Thanks moustache man, I needed this.
Although purists will say you only need tutor, I think these style of videos are more encouraging, especially for newbies.
Thanks, learned some new things! You can also create an autocommand to briefly highlight whatever you're yanking. Then you don't need to go into visual mode first.
Great video, as always! One quick note - ":s" stands for "substitute" in command mode.
ugh you're totally right! (and not the first to point this out). With vim stuff, I tend to do this from the top of my head. for some reason "s" has always been "sed" in my head :)
oh and another tip with macros that's powerful is to combine it with the norm command in visual mode. so instead of 5@a to perform the macro for the following 5 lines, I'll just make a visual selection of the lines I want to apply the macro to, hit colon then 'norm @@' to apply it on each line. similar can be done with the dot command, 'norm .' to perform the last change on every line (i remap this to g. )
I’ve been using nvim for over a year and learned multiple things from this video. Thanks so much!
Best vim learning serie in TH-cam! BTW loved your Patagonia t-shirt, cheers from Argentina
Thanks for the stuff about registers. Ive been heavily using vim for 3 months and hadnt come across the need for it, but i can see where it will be useful
Nice video, just one thing : Register copy commands ("+y") on the system clipboard will not work on some Linux system with wayland. You can reproduce this problem on a fresh install of fedora 40 . The reason ? -> no Wayland clipboard, you can fix it with your package manager in your linux distro , (Red Hat land : sudo dnf install wl-clipboard). This is pretty bad to not have that by default. It is better on any system to check clipboard support before trying to do that.
Good stuff, thank you! I’ve been waiting for a part two hoping that will cover multiline cursors tricks that I still struggle with 😊
Nice video ! Just one thing : you can yank into the clip board with * and + (not only *)
8:08 I didn't realize you could assign registers to each other like that. And I almost made it through the video without learning anything!
Great video though. These are all really good to know.
damn, the amount of the helpful things in the comments is way more what is in the video ,thanks typecraft and all of the comments love my vim community
Just started the neovim journey this week. This was very helpful
I used vi for 35 years now and I got quick and efficient, vi under my skin. I didn't miss anything until now I know what i could have missed :-) Thanks a lot!
Here is a super-duper pro tip (blazingly fast and free as GPL3)
"Use Alt key with commands in INSERT mode"
this is the foundation of the forgotten typing art, revive it to unleash full power of the modal text editor :)
Impressive (both the commands and the moustache)
Thanks!
Also for macros, once you run @h (or whichever register you're using) you can just type @@ to run it agan.
I usually do a ballpark guess, like 5@h, and then just hit @@ to finish the last few lines.
Macros also work with search, so it is much more capable than just editing big contiguous sets of lines.
I think that :s is for substitute and not sed. Not an important detail but I think it's better to clarify so then when invoking the :help command one looks for :help substitute. Thanks for the great content!
My mind has been blow. I know vim/nvim is powerful, didn't realise just how amazing ot could be.
Admittedly, i wont be able to remember all of this, but i will probably start using nvim :). Then slowly learn these as i need them
MAGNIFIC! THANKS FOR YOUR KNOWLEDGE!
been using vim motions and neovim for a couple of months now and this video is becoming my new bible
Great content.If there was a handy file, we could practice & learn simultaneously
Some of these are really a life saver, great video.
One I use often and saw being used in this video, "u" in normal mode to undo the last change done in insert mode.
you can press '#' in order to select previous occurrence of a word, '#' the complementary of '*'.
You could replace selection with cgn command. If you repeat it with dot then it replaces the next occurrence..
To save and close, try shift ZZ. Also, you can change each matching word using sed inside vim. :1,$s;oldword;newword; and plenty of other sed commands. Old school stuff which has been around since vi in the 90s at least.
As in Vim/Neovim it is very important whether a letter is capital or not, it might confuse people if you display capital letters in the overlay in instances where in fact they are not capital
OMFG WTH!! I've been using vi then vim and now nvim for 30 years and I didn't a know a couple of these commands and the diff between the registers. Omg!! Thanks loads for the video @typecraft and love all the other comments from folks with good tips, vi just never stops giving
Awesome dude. I moved to NVIM for data science just by watching your content. I't been a wild ride.
Welcome brother
How about search/replace throughout the whole project? Or is that better with sed on the command line?
After selecting something, performing any change, you can go elsewere and press 1v to repeat the same selection pattern.
Idk when they changed/added it but in Neovim you can "+y on MacOS instead of "*y as well. (both works)
that yellow light is causing camera to change focus. kind of distracting. BTW, awesome episode. Learnt some new things.
Long time vim user and never knew about *
I always get value out of your videos. Thanks a lot!
the special clipboard register that is linked with the system clipboard is a + on windows, too.
Your videos are addicting. Being a big fan of motions, I often wonder why people typically use ciw to change a word rather than ce?
because ciw doesn't care where in the word your cursor is. ce = ciw only when your cursor is at the beginning of the word
@@roniqueh96 Yes, I remembered this later that day and couldn't agree more. It only makes sense in the event you're on the first character of the word.
Nice video! What is this prompt you are using btw, looks gorgeous!
Outstanding. I have a questions. The % register, in my mac, holds the full path and filename. How do I access just the filename and extension without the absolute path? (Been looking for it, but can't see if this is a setting or I have to look elsewhere.)
Linux has the + and * registers for the system. Since it has two different clipboards active at the same time usually. One is the one you use with ctrl+c/v and the other one is highlight and middle click.
we are all friends in this community, much love man 💜
actually, I don't remember if is actually my own config cause I set it up a few years ago, but for me "%p paste the absolute path(plus the name)of the file I'm currently in and imoo is kinda useful if you need to paste that to variables and stuff.
Great video btw
This is a built-in for vim (maybe even OG vi). It pastes from the % register, which contains the current buffer’s filename.
not sure what I can learn from it but I know there will be. Liked, bookmarked for later watching! Peace out.
I don't mean to be pedantic but :s stands for :substitute not sed. Also in that command the '%' sign is used to tell :substitute to work on the entire file. The /g option, instead, means operate globally on the line.
Macros ftw thanks typecraft 😊
Which colorscheme are you using in this video?
catppuccin
% is short hand for 1,$ and you can use it anywhere a range would work
Excellent video 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
Great video. I have learned new things.
very helpful, thanks
I really like your tutorials
Thanks nerd, congrats about the new sponsor
Great video, thanks!
Thank you so much, I learned a lot from this video.
Will love a video specially for nvim macros…..and as always Thanks Nerd!
Thanks for this! I learnt a few things I was unfamiliar with.
Am I the only one who finds the use of " for registers awkward somehow? It's not really any different to any other key. Probably my brain is expecting to type a closing " somewhere and it messes me up!
Should be mentioned the 0-9 registers doesn't quite work as you mentioned here.
0 will always contain the last yanked text, but 1-9 will only be populated if the text deleted is bigger than one line.
Another great video as always
Is there any way to configure vim buffer font, without setting the font of the terminal?
I mean to have two different fonts for vim and the terminal that runs vim.
Great video, so great in fact that I went over to click the like button and saw that I had previously done so!
what about your neovim setup for ruby on rails development.
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It's a nice, well made video, but it's kinda missing the point in the usage terms. 'c' is not a motion, but rather it's an operator, which is important since the whole concept that vim works on is that you can use any oparator (like c for change) with any motion (like $ to jump to the end of a line) to perform that operation in the range between current character and the character at the end of the motion.
Please also make a video on how to config nvim with Django
Great video
Hey man I just found your channel and I think is amazing! Thank you 💯💯
What keyboard are you using?
HHKB Type S - check it out amzn.to/3C8iLwP
I really enjoy watching your videos and helpful tricks (thanks for making me redo my linux / vim config 300 times !)
What I really lack (or am I too dumb to find one??) is a way to send some http requests, parse the result and store for example a token in a variable for future requests
or even send a request that will first trigger my auth request to get the token automatically!
Kind of postman / insomnia stuff.
I have been struggeling with .http and .env files to get something I could use on all env for work
Thanks. You rock!
awwww :)
Thanks nerd! You taught me a lot!
ledur(??) ... le dur(??) ... L-D-U-R ... Left-Down-Up-Right(!!) ... as a non native english speaker I really hat to think about what you mean 🙂but it totally makes sense. Thank you!
You don't use relative line numbers, do you? A lot of people recommend them but TBH I don't feel comfortably with them for some reason.
Yeah never used them
How to solve issue when installed packages modules are being shown in suggestion while jsx module is not suggesting .
"I assume that you know some basic things like hjkl"
Then proceeds to explain hjkl lol
the `*` blew my mind
You should also try #. It has the same thing as * but in the opposite direction. But remember: n and N on according to the direction of your previous search.
Going into Pane mode, Ctrl+P, then hjkl moves around, ESC when done
Thanks man, I learned some new things
👍
better than your macro example:
:2,9 norm ^i"^[A",
to get this ^[ just type ctrl-v then escape.
Thank you, Nerd
9:48 Then again you forgot to `:set nu rnu` what is the use of being able to do stuff n times without rnu?
Hi my lord. Your terminal status line style is very cool. I love catppuccin :) Could you share your config? I would really appreciate that
Finally i know how to exit vim
excellent!
Personally I’ve never been able to get into macros. They always seem to be too much trouble. I could do your example just as fast with visual block mode as I can with a macro.
8:43 or use %w (in this case)
Is the moustache a requirement now if you have a developer youtube channel?