Posts in “Vim”

How to change the default editor in Debian (for root), as I keep forgetting:

I’ve just finished refactoring a large Go program, and the process was rather…. pleasant.

Bufexplorer - my new favourite add-on for vim.

A small Vim Buffers cheatsheet:

I little command I always have to search for when using vimdiff – :diffupdate

A concise [article][1] on Linux.com (that I keep referring back to) about vim folding.

Up until a few weeks ago I was using subversion for all my personal stuff.

When posting code into vim, it often auto-indents it in a staircase fashion off to the right – really annoying.

I can never remember what those comments that change vim settings are called, and spend hours trawling through vim’s help.

I usually use vimdiff to find the differences between two files; here are some gui tools that do the same thing: