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    why exit when you can do everything inside (discuss.tchncs.de)
    submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    bonus point: if you like inception, do :term, press i and start another (n)vim session :)

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    The challenge now is escaping the neovim terminal

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Ctrl+\ Ctrl+n gets you back to normal mode.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    But what do you do if you are not using a us keyboard?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The layout is what matters for vim and it's derivatives. I might be wrong here, but if you really need to be able to use the same keybindings as you would on a English qwerty one, you could try remapping things to their addresses or whatever that's called - basically the same key, physically, regardless of its layout mapping.

    That being said, it's vim, you can remap the command to get back to normal mode from terminal mode to whatever key or key sequence you like most.

    Using mouse to scroll up and down your terminal window inside vim also gets you back to normal mode.

    And, well, quitting the shell of your terminal in vim works just fine - either via command or hitting Ctrl+d.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    On my keyboard the layout is mostly the same, it's not like AZERTY or something like that. The problem is some keys like \ are behind modifiers (In this case AltGr+\), so most times when I've tried the Ctrl+\ combination it hasn't worked (You can see how the keyboard layout is here

    [–] psud 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Vim can't automatically handle other key maps? I'm sure it worked as designed in my dvorak system

    :w to write, not :, (Dvorak has comma where qwerty has w)

    I get it if the keyboard doesn't use the letters we use, but that person could type in Lemmy with all the normal letters

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    Via this video (thanks @[email protected]!) i recently learned a bunch of tricks about :term and am now tempted to start using it all the time.