Drew Neil > Quotes

“The painter does not rest with a brush on the canvas. And so it is with Vim. Normal mode is the natural resting state. The clue is in the name, really.”
― Drew Neil

“We can insert the value stored in variable i just by running =i in Insert mode.”
― Drew Neil, Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought

“As a general rule, we should prefer operator commands over their Visual mode equivalents when working through a repetitive set of changes.”
― Drew Neil, Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought

“bundler.vim plugin,[17] which uses the project Gemfile to populate the ‘path’ setting.”
― Drew Neil, Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought

“Tim Pope’s commentary.vim plugin provides a good example.[4] This adds a command for commenting and uncommenting”
― Drew Neil, Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought

“In Virtual Replace mode, we overwrite characters of screen real estate rather than dealing with the actual characters that would eventually be saved in a file.”
― Drew Neil, Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought

“:g/re/p”
― Drew Neil, Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought