Vim can totally spell check. It even goes further than that and
identifies rare and regional words, too! None of this is enabled by default,
however. To enable spell check in Vim just run :set spell and suddenly
all misspelled words in your current window will be highlighted (The color and highlight method
will depend on your vim color scheme, mine changes the font color to
dark red and underlines the word).
If you’ve been using vim for long, you are likely acquainted with u, the undo
command. All too often overzealous with u, I undo edits unintentionally. A
quick peek at the vim help for u yields that C-r will redo edits previously
unwound with u.
Many folks use vim for software development or systems administration but choose other editors when editing plain text or markdown. Vim has some pretty handy features for dealing with prose.
Continue reading »Have you ever accidentally opened a file you didn’t intend to from somewhere like the quick fix window? Or dive deep into debugging a problem only to realize you need to fix something in one of those files somehwere in your wake? Then Vim “jumps” are for you!
Continue reading »There are numerous ways to manipulate the case of text in Vim. The most important commands to remember are:
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