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The article mentions ”gn” in passing, but it doesn’t give it enough credit: this is an enormously useful motion, almost more useful on its own than the rest of the article. The thing that makes it golden is that it is a motion, and thus combined with a command, it is repeatable! So, like: 1. Search for something (either using / or *). 2. Type ”cgn” in Normal mode (i.e. change next search match) and replace what you s…
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As someone who uses this regularly, it's still not as convenient as multi cursors that most modern ides give you. There's a vim extension for multiple cursors but it's a little buggy.
I dunno, I’ve also used both, and I keep coming back to the Vim/gn way of doing it, I just like it more. I see how people can feel otherwise, though.
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The article mentions ”gn” in passing, but it doesn’t give it enough credit: this is an enormously useful motion, almost more useful on its own than the rest of the article. The thing that makes it golden is that it is a motion, and thus combined with a command, it is repeatable! So, like: 1. Search for something (either using / or *). 2. Type ”cgn” in Normal mode (i.e. change next search match) and replace what you s…
Thank you for the tip.
The article mentions ”gn” in passing, but it doesn’t give it enough credit: this is an enormously useful motion, almost more useful on its own than the rest of the article. The thing that makes it golden is that it is a motion, and thus combined with a command, it is repeatable! So, like: 1. Search for something (either using / or *). 2. Type ”cgn” in Normal mode (i.e. change next search match) and replace what you s…
Most of the time it's more keystrokes than using :s though, so I'm not a big fan of it. But I see the appeal :)
Nice, but still wondering if I should know vim since nano is enough for me :)
Thank you! Two things I really got from this: Capital marks. I use ma or ms and `a `s a lot, but did not know you could do global marks with mA and `A. Very useful! I've been using `` for a long time to mean "go back to the last place I was editing" but sometimes it gets overridden when navigating (I'm not super familiar with the jumplist, so maybe I need to get a better understanding) but `[ and `] are exactly what…
You'll go through the change list. I think it's what you want.
I explain it in the article vim-intermediate on the same blog :)
The article mentions ”gn” in passing, but it doesn’t give it enough credit: this is an enormously useful motion, almost more useful on its own than the rest of the article. The thing that makes it golden is that it is a motion, and thus combined with a command, it is repeatable! So, like: 1. Search for something (either using / or *). 2. Type ”cgn” in Normal mode (i.e. change next search match) and replace what you s…
Yeah I know the trick and I explain it a bit more in another article on my blog. Most of the time it's more keystrokes than using :s though, so I'm not a big fan of it. But I see the appeal :)
Practical vim by Drew Neil is hands down the best vim learning resource out there. Nothing even comes close.
The article mentions ”gn” in passing, but it doesn’t give it enough credit: this is an enormously useful motion, almost more useful on its own than the rest of the article. The thing that makes it golden is that it is a motion, and thus combined with a command, it is repeatable! So, like: 1. Search for something (either using / or *). 2. Type ”cgn” in Normal mode (i.e. change next search match) and replace what you s…