Software projects are commonly composed of similar files in a specific location and new files typically require some minimal boilerplate. Tim Pope’s projectionist.vim offers a handy way to templatize the creation of new files directly in Vim.
Continue reading »To transparently work with files encrypted with gnupg, use jamessan’s vim-gnupg plugin. Once installed and active it will decrypt/ encrypt the file when reading and writing.
Continue reading »Changing double quotes to single quotes or vice versa in Vim is simple if you have tpope’s surround.vim plugin.
Continue reading »Many know about that you can open a file based on what’s under your cursor using
gf, or C-w f. There is also a handy variation on this using ‘F’. This variation will open
said file, but if it’s followed by a line number vim will jump to that line. We encounter this
a lot when executing tests via vim-dispatch.
This trick comes courtesy the CIA, via WikiLeaks. This leaked document shows how one can view a binary file in hex mode using the Linux xxd command.
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