Chris Watson cwonrails

Answer by Jim Dennis on Stack Overflow question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most-productive-shortcut-with-vim/1220118#1220118

Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi.

You mention cutting with yy and complain that you almost never want to cut whole lines. In fact programmers, editing source code, very often want to work on whole lines, ranges of lines and blocks of code. However, yy is only one of many way to yank text into the anonymous copy buffer (or "register" as it's called in vi).

The "Zen" of vi is that you're speaking a language. The initial y is a verb. The statement yy is a simple statement which is, essentially, an abbreviation for 0 y$:

0 go to the beginning of this line. y yank from here (up to where?)

OS X Preferences

most of these require logout/restart to take effect

# Enable character repeat on keydown
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

# Set a shorter Delay until key repeat

Checkout a new working branch

 git checkout -b <branchname>

Make Changes

 git add
 git commit -m "description of changes"

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# Ported to Python from http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1349

	print "Color indexes should be drawn in bold text of the same color."
	print

	colored = [0] + [0x5f + 40 * n for n in range(0, 5)]
	colored_palette = [
	"%02x/%02x/%02x" % (r, g, b)
	for r in colored


	FILE SPACING:

	# double space a file
	sed G

	# double space a file which already has blank lines in it. Output file
	# should contain no more than one blank line between lines of text.
	sed '/^$/d;G'

	# 0 is too far from ` ;)
	set -g base-index 1

	# Automatically set window title
	set-window-option -g automatic-rename on
	set-option -g set-titles on

	#set -g default-terminal screen-256color
	set -g status-keys vi
	set -g history-limit 10000

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	# DESCRIPTION:
	#
	# Set the bash prompt according to:
	# * the active virtualenv
	# * the branch/status of the current git repository
	# * the return value of the previous command
	# * the fact you just came from Windows and are used to having newlines in
	# your prompts.

	set -g default-terminal "screen-256color"
	set -g status-utf8 on

	bind M source-file ~/.tmux/mac.session
	bind L source-file ~/.tmux/linux.session

	# set -g terminal-overrides 'xterm*:smcup@:rmcup@'

	# THEME
	set -g status-bg black

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html lang="en">
	<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
	<title>Stripe Sample Form</title>

	<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.8.1/jquery.validate.min.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="https://js.stripe.com/v1/"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript">

Chris Watson cwonrails

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