as I’m going through the process of learning vim, I’m discovering newfound powers. one of them being to execute commands from vim itself.
below examples might better explain some of them:
-
want to see what files are in current directory? enter command mode(by typing
:
) and follow it by a bang(!
). then dols
like you’d do in a terminal and press enter. this is not limited to just ls. you can enter any command that you can enter in terminal. for example::! uname --operating-system
(which will output GNU/Linux :)) -
so you want to quickly save just a certain part of your file into another file? just select everything you need by entering visual mode(
v
) and do:w filename
(actual command you’ll see would be'<,'>:w filename
). verify it using 1.(i.e.,:! cat filename
. -
want to quickly paste another file into current one? do
:r filename
. it’ll paste its contents below your cursor. -
or maybe you want to paste results of a command? do
:r !ls *.png
.
vim is my ~
sweet ~
now. make it yours too.
Dangol modern Linux users, haven’t even heard of Ed. Every text editor is bloat, ed is life!