Vim Tip 24, 25 - visual block tricks

Practical Vim

Personal Tip - Squashing commits

Tip for when git squashing commits.

Text:

pick 06d6aa2 Delete about.md
pick 6bb037b better home page
pick 47f9716 no emojis
pick 1234567 commit message

Put your cursor in the beginning of the second line, and then:

<C-v>}kEcsquash<Esc>

Explanation:

• <C-v> - enter visual-block mode
• } - go to the line right after the end of the paragraph
• k - go up one line
• E - end of the pick word
• csquash - change the selected text to "squash"
• <Esc> - go back to normal mode (then all lines will be updated)

Vim Tip 24 - replace command replace all selected text

Pretty cool exercise to be done with this text:

Chapter            Page
Normal mode          15
Insert mode          31
Visual mode          44

Vim Tip 25 - the change feedback only appears when back to Normal mode

Pretty much what the title says.

Vim Tip 26 - non-rectangular visual-block

We can have a non-rectangular visual-block if we go to the end of line with $.

Text for practicing:

var foo = 1;
var bar = 'a';
var foobar = foo + bar;

Like in this example: