We edit text everyday. emails. blogs. code. documents. notes. Why not become efficient!

First, you much choose an editor. I choose ViM.
Second, you must learn techniques for becoming efficient.

Here is a list of my productivity tips

search

• forward search– in command mode, press ‘/’ (forward slash) and type the search pattern.
• reverse search — in command mode, press ‘?’ to reverse search the previous pattern.
• highlight – enable search highlighting to see all matches visible in the current window. Add ‘set hlsearch‘ to your .vimrc
• incremental – enable incremental matching to automatically see matches as you type a pattern. Add ‘set incsearch‘ to your .vimrc

navigation

• breadcrumbs – keep a trail of lines you want to return to by setting marks. To set a mark, press m<a-zA-Z>. To return to a mark from anywhere in the file, press '<a-zA-Z> (single tick).For example, the keystroke mc will create a mark at location c and 'c will return!

copy/paste

• registers – copy arbitrary lines of text into registers then paste them later on. To copy text, enter visual mode v, use hjkl to select the lines, then specify a register "<a-z>and yank y! For example, after selecting text, store it into register m with the keystrokes "my. View the contents of all registers with :reg

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