vim

Question 1

vim: The easiest way to get to the middle of a line is

Answer 1

hit w a lot

to find a character and repeat it until you get to the right one. e.g.

fg will look for letter g on the current line, and repeating that command will keep going to next

Question 2

vim: to move to the next word, type

Answer 2

w

b

Question 3

vim: to move down a half screen, aka next page, type

Answer 3

control d

control u

Question 4

vim: to undo, type

Answer 4

u

Question 5

vim: To split the screen vertically

Answer 5

:vsplit

Question 6

vim: To split the screen vertically and have the new screen be a new file, type

Answer 6

:vsplit filename.txt

Question 7

vim: To switch active pane in split view, type

Answer 7

control w, let go, then an arrow direction

Question 8

vim: To copy and paste, type

Answer 8

Select it with v or shift v

Press y, and p

Question 9

vim: To indent a visual block by one space, type

Answer 9

gotta learn this

Question 10

vim: To set up vim for convenient visual block indentation, type

Answer 10

set shiftwidth=1
vmap >gv
vmap

Question 11

vim: Vim does not reload if you change branches, so you need to run

Answer 11

:bufdo e

to clear all the bufffers