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I'm sure it has been posted before but it never ceases to amaze me: Damian Conway, "More Instantly Better Vim" - OSCON 2013
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Damian Conway, "More Instantly Better Vim" - OSCON 2013
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- A classic. People kept recommending it from 2013 to 2026.
- Presented by Damian Conway
Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.
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Tools and practiceVim, Emacs and editorsDeveloper productivity
Damian Conway shares a collection of advanced tips, tools, and configuration tricks to improve productivity in the Vim text editor.
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Damian Conway, "More Instantly Better Vim" - OSCON 2013
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u/jazz_fan202in r/vim • Mentions
anyone using dragvisuals.vim by Damian Conway?
Wondering if anyone here is using this plugin - he demo'd it (see link below); it allows you to
use visual mode, select a block of text and move it using the arrow keys like an object. I am using
using vim8.1 and i cannot get it to work. Not sure if the code broke in Ver 8, or its me.
Error I get is E117: unkown function: DVB\_Drag
E15: Invalid expression: DVB\_Drag('down')
https://github.com/thoughtstream/Damian-Conway-s-Vim-Setup
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u/__nostromo__in r/vim • Mentions
Can you filter thesaurus matches using a spellfile?
I have an English spellfile which has ~500 common English and programming words in it. I call this spellfile "strict-English" and I use it to remind myself to write simple, common words in all my docstrings. If you work with non-native English speakers and want a way to train yourself to use simpler words in your docstrings, I highly recommend maintaining your own spellfile.
By the way, this wasn't my idea. I got it from Damian Conway's "More Instantly Better Vim" video
The problem is that sometimes I will see a docstring that I wrote and one word, "difficult", is underlined because it isn't in my "strict-English" spellfile. The same s…
u/hannesrin r/emacs • Mentions
Dragging text in Evil
I had a plugin made by Damien Conway (dragvisuals.vim) demo
I cannot live without it, and when I didn't find anything like it for emacs (there probably is tho), I decided I'll try implement it myself. I've only been using emacs for a couple of weeks and emacs lisp is _very_ new to me, so be gentle ;). I just wanted to know what your thoughts were.
Note, this is not on par with drag visuals.vim yet. As of now the things I can do is:
- Drag single characters in Normal mode left/right
- Drag visual selection left/right (only useful with < one line selected)
- Drag single lines up/down in Normal Mode
The code:
(defun hannesr/evil-normal-move-character-forward ()…
u/cupof__coffeein r/vim • Mentions
cursorcolumn questions about off on and what not.
So is there a way to turn cursor column off if there is a character at that position?
I'm pretty sure there is, Damian Conway kinda hints in his Instantly better vim talk, but my vim script is kinda lacking.
Thanks in advance!
u/artotalin r/vim • Mentions
drag a block like Sublime - TIPS
I just use v in normal or visual mode, do you like.
" visual mode
nnoremap v <C-V>
nnoremap <C-V> v
vnoremap v <C-V>
vnoremap <C-V> v
"drag visual block
vnoremap <C-K> xkP`V`
vnoremap <C-J> xp`V`
vnoremap <C-L> >gv
vnoremap <C-H> <gv
I found that here:
link to this video
Another way to do that ?
u/adc90in r/vim • Mentions
Installing plugins without a manager
I'm trying to use the *dragvisuals.vim* script from Damian Conways presentation here and I can't seem to get it to work. I've tried placing it in both ***~/.vim/plugin/*** directories and ***~/.vim/bundle/dragvisuals/autoload/dragvisuals.vim*** and I can't seem to get it to work and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions. I typically use Vundle if that makes a differnce.
u/adc90in r/vim • Mentions
Toggling a function in VimScript?
I picked up a nice snippet from Damian Conway link to this video that displays a column on the right hand side at the 81st column. I like the way it displays but I'm trying to figure out a way to toggle it and was wondering if someone could help me out.
function! ShowColumn()
highlight ColorColumn cterbg=magenta
set colorcolumn=81
endfunction