Gaurami’s Reviews > Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought > Status Update

Tip 118. I've become quite a confident with Vim, don't need to consult with the book too often and as a result I hold over the book for a week or so. Today I reread the tips on words-autocompletion. Tip 117 (Autocomplete Sequences of Words) is quit useful.

Substitution
:& (ampersand) – reuse prev subst.
:&& (double ampersand) – reuse prev subst. and keys in the current line
:g& = :%&&

Read about search patterns. Eager to try those "very magic"/"very no magic" modes with offsets but don't have my laptop at hand.

Tip 71. Macros.
Execute in series ("22") or in parallel.
Append a command ("qA")
Apply to several files (:argdo normal @a)

Tip 64. Paste and togglepaste. Couldn't figure out how to make ctrl-v and its alternatives work. Register "0 is the best.

Tip 63.
\{reg} – in Insert mode past from register (" - unnamed, 0 - yank)
gp, gP – more useful than just p/P because leave the cursor at the end of the pasted text

Tip 64. Interact with the sys. clipboard.
:set autoindent
To avoid surprises, :set paste before and disable after addressing the sys. clipboard.
:set pastetoggle=\

Tip 61-62
"0 – yank register
In visual mode p "swaps" selected text and the text in the unnamed register – bug or feature?

Tip 60. {continue}
:reg{isters}
:reg "0 – check the yank register
"+ – system clipboard
"* – X11 primary last mouse selection
"= – expressions reg.
read-only regs: % (file name), : (last Ex command), / (last search pattern)

Tip 58. m{Capital Letter} – global label. Develop a habit of setting global labels before using :vimgrep, :make and others.

Part IV. Registers. Chapter 10.

Tip 59. Del, copy, insert.
xp – swap symbols
ddp – swap lines
P – insert before the cursor

Tip 60. Get familiar with registers
delete/yank/put
"{register} – specify register
_ – "black-hole register"
"_d{motion}
Ex equivalents:
:delete c/:put c
0 – yank reg.

Tip 55. jumps list.
:jumps, -
hjklwWbB - not jumps

Tip 56. changes list.
:changes, g;-g,
`. – last change label (in place of dirty hack u)
`^ – location of the exit from Insert mode
gi – return to editing

Tip 57. go to file under cursor
gf
suffixesadd
:set suffixesadd+=.rb
:set path?
– to definition?