Vi is giving you a hint about “properly” formatting your commit message. While there is no specific enforcement of one message style w.r.t. another, “traditionally” Git commit messages are structured this way: A short title describing the changeset (usually less than 50-60 characters); One blank line; A more complete description of the commit, optionally divided … Read more
If you are on the first line, pressing (upper case) J will join that line and the next line together, removing the newline. You can also combine this with a count, so pressing 3J will combine all 3 lines together.
Use the :g! command to delete every line that doesn’t match. :g!/ERROR/d
You should rearrange the inputrc so the commented line comes after set keymap vi-insert. Like this: set bell-style none $if mode=vi set keymap vi-command “gg”: beginning-of-history “G”: end-of-history set keymap vi-insert #notice how the “jj” movement is “jj”: vi-movement-mode #after ‘set keymap vi-insert’? “\C-w”: backward-kill-word “\C-p”: history-search-backward $endif
From the VIM documentation: The algorithm used is breakable. A 4 character key in about one hour, a 6 character key in one day (on a Pentium 133 PC). This requires that you know some text that must appear in the file. An expert can break it for any key. When the text has been … Read more
A substitution would work nicely. :%s/}/\0\r/g Replace } with the whole match \0 and a new line character \r. or :%s/}/&\r/g Where & also is an alternative for the whole match, looks a bit funny though in my opinion. Vim golfers like it because it saves them a keystroke 🙂 \0 or & in the … Read more
Early software was often modal, but usability took a turn at some point, away from this style. VI-based editors are total enigmas — they’re the only real surviving members of that order of software. Modes are a no-no in usability and interaction design because we humans are fickle mammals who cannot be trusted to remember … Read more
There’s also surround.vim, if you’re looking to do this fairly often. You’d use cs'” to change surrounding quotes.
Just repeat the object selection keys. For your examples this would be va}a} or vi]i]. I don’t think that there is a way to then reduce the selection back to an inner block. Other than to use Esc to clear the selection, “ to jump back to your starting poing and then redo the initial … Read more
Ctrl-Alt-J switches from Emacs mode to Vi mode in readline programs. Alternatively add “set editing-mode vi” to your ~/.inputrc