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378 points Fluffyrnz | 2 comments | 27 Aug 25 15:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.42s | source
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benjaminclauss ◴[27 Aug 25 17:14 UTC] No.45042331[source]▶
These little tutorials and games are great. I played VIM Adventures.

However, one thing I really struggle with is learning when I can be doing something more efficiently. I rarely use markers, anything beyond default registers, commands, and so on.

I'm giving Neovim a try for my systems course trying to get better but I do wish these sorts of games pushed me to get better at these more advanced usage tricks.

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soperj ◴[27 Aug 25 17:54 UTC] No.45042781[source]▶
Oh man, I use markers all the time. ma y'a

mark a spot, then yank or delete everything to that line. Way easier to do it accurately rather than 13yy or however many lines you're yanking.

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zeke ◴[27 Aug 25 18:19 UTC] No.45043100[source]▶
You can use <shift>v then move to your start line and type y or d. This way you see the text marked before yanking or deleting. <control>v is similar. And gv will reselect the marked area.
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1. dwater ◴[27 Aug 25 18:30 UTC] No.45043228[source]▶
And if you have line numbering on you can y123G. I learned enough Vim 25 years ago to be good enough and I'm happy I did. When I was writing code every day I picked up a little more but I've lost most of it, and what I'd want people to know who are considering it is you never need to be a Vim Master. You can learn enough Vim in 30 minutes to make it beneficial to you for the rest of your life.
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2. Izkata ◴[27 Aug 25 21:40 UTC] No.45045645[source]▶
I turn on relative line numbering so that y123G might be y8j and vim will show me the 8.