why exit when you can do everything inside - eviltoast

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:

  1. want to see what files are in current directory? enter command mode(by typing :) and follow it by a bang(!). then do ls 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 :))

  2. 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.

  3. want to quickly paste another file into current one? do :r filename. it’ll paste its contents below your cursor.

  4. or maybe you want to paste results of a command? do :r !ls *.png.

vim is my ~ sweet ~ now. make it yours too.

  • 𝕯𝖎𝖕𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖙@lemmy.world
    11·
    11 months ago

    I like to run vim inside windows as a launcher. I just use :!VSCode.exe to launch VS code from Vim. It’s nice this way because I can use VSCode Vim bindings and then enter terminal in VSCode to launch vim, which i use primarily in terminal.