Daily Vim Tip: From any bracket, brace, or parenthesis, % teleports you to its matching partner. In files with the matchit plugin loaded, it also hops between if/else/end blocks and HTML tags.

Daily Vim Tip: From any bracket, brace, or parenthesis, % teleports you to its matching partner. In files with the matchit plugin loaded, it also hops between if/else/end blocks and HTML tags.

Learn more: run `vimtutor` in your terminal, or use `:help %` inside Vim.

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Daily Vim tip: Use f{char} / F{char} to move the cursor at a specific character on the current line. f jumps forward to it; F hunts backward.

Daily Vim tip: Use f{char} / F{char} to move the cursor at a specific character on the current line. f jumps forward to it; F hunts backward. After the first jump, ; repeats in the same direction and , reverses — so you can skip through multiple matches without retyping.

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Daily Vim Tip: Use e / E to land on the final character of the current word rather than the start of the next.

Daily Vim Tip: Use e / E to land on the final character of the current word rather than the start of the next. Handy when you want to append to a word or delete to its tail. E skips punctuation just like W does.

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Vim tip of the day Cheat sheet: Use b or B to move backward through Words. b treats every punctuation cluster as its own stop; B leaps back across entire non-space chunks at once. Pair with w to zip through code without touching arrow keys.

Vim tip of the day: b / B

Use b or B to move backward through Words. b treats every punctuation cluster as its own stop; B leaps back across entire non-space chunks at once. Pair with w to zip through code without touching arrow keys.

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Vim Tip of the day: Use w or W to move forward by word

Daily Vim Tip: w / W

Two flavours of 'move forward by word.' Lowercase w treats punctuation as a word boundary, so it hops between tokens. Uppercase W ignores punctuation and jumps to the next gap in whitespace — useful when navigating camelCase or paths.

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TIL, in #vim (or #neovim) you can indent the current line *while in insert mode* with Ctrl-T and dedent it with Ctrl-D.

I've used Vim for decades and have always switched to Normal mode and used << and >>. This is so much better!

:help ins-special-keys is full of gems. #VimTip

Vim Spell Check <!-- FeedbackWP Plugin - Results Widget --><div class="rmp-results-widget js-rmp-results-widget js-rmp-results-widget--240" data-post-id="240"><div class="rmp-results-widget__visual-rating"> <i class="js-rmp-results-icon rmp-icon rmp-icon--ratings rmp-icon--star rmp-icon--full-highlight"></i><i class="js-rmp-results-icon rmp-icon rmp-icon--ratings rmp-icon--star rmp-icon--full-highlight"></i><i class="js-rmp-results-icon rmp-icon rmp-icon--ratings rmp-icon--star rmp-icon--full-highlight"></i><i class="js-rmp-results-icon rmp-icon rmp-icon--ratings rmp-icon--star rmp-icon--full-highlight"></i><i class="js-rmp-results-icon rmp-icon rmp-icon--ratings rmp-icon--star"></i></div><div class="rmp-results-widget__avg-rating"> <span class="js-rmp-avg-rating"> 4.2 </span></div><div class="rmp-results-widget__vote-count"> (<span class="js-rmp-vote-count">810</span>)</div></div><p>I recently came across an embarrassing typo on my own website. Buried deep in a paragraph of HTML inside a Rails HAML template, there was a glaring spelling mistake. I quickly raced back to Vim and opened the template and spell checked the whole file. How? With <code>:set spell</code>, Vim spell check.</p><p>Many novice Vim users are unaware that spell checking is built in and as easy as enabling with <code>:set spell</code>. As a veteran Vim user, I was aware of spell checking and how to turn it on, but I frequently forget the full complement of commands. So for anyone that needs reminding, here are the basics for getting the most out of Vim’s spell checker:</p><ul class="wp-block-list"><li><code>:set spell</code> – Turn on spell checking</li><li><code>:set nospell</code> – Turn off spell checking</li><li><code>]s</code> – Jump to the next misspelled word</li><li><code>[s</code> – Jump to the previous misspelled word</li><li><code>z=</code> – Bring up the suggested replacements</li><li><code>zg</code> – <strong>G</strong>ood word: Add the word under the cursor to the dictionary</li><li><code>zw</code> – <strong>W</strong>oops! Undo and remove the word from the dictionary</li></ul><p>In the screencast below, I’ve demonstrated a few of these. With the file open, <code>:set spell</code> has already been enabled. I find the first misspelled word with <code>]s</code>. It’s actually correctly spelled, it’s the name of our status page and monitoring service, <a data-wpel-link="exclude" href="https://statusgator.com/">StatusGator</a>. So I add the word to the dictionary with <code>zg</code>. Then I find the next misspelling with <code>]s</code> and press <code>z=</code> to pull up the suggestion list. 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Little shout out to past me for throwing this config in my .vimrc ages ago:

" Toggle spellcheck functionality
:map <F5> :setlocal spell! spelllang=en_us<CR>

Now I get to rebuild some lost muscle memory for fixing my speeling mesteaks

https://vimtricks.com/p/vim-spell-check/

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