I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool

(evanhahn.com)

18 points | by todsacerdoti 14 hours ago ago

3 comments

  • wonger_ 7 hours ago ago

    Kudos for reading all those docs and sharing some nuggets.

    Does anyone else feel vim clumsy like the author? I'm trying to understand how one could accidentally lowercase a whole buffer, or trigger scary messages or open unrecognized menus. Not condescending, just curious. I find the q: thing relatable, but not the rest.

    • qbrass 3 hours ago ago

      If you're at the top of the buffer, guG will lowercase the whole thing.

      So if you open a file, go to type G to jump to a line, but accidentally hit g, then try to undo it with u out of habit, before hitting G again, you do the same thing.

    • psyclobe 3 hours ago ago

      Uh to be perfectly honest for the past … 30 years I’ve ran with a buddies vimrc and really never took the time to understand it; it was perfectly good lol and to this day I could not recreate it if I lost it.

      > lowercase a whole buffer,

      Happens a lot to me actually!

      That and accidentally incrementing a numeric value haha..