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Let Vim Do the Typing

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What it is

George Brocklehurst of thoughtbot demonstrates Vim's built-in completion mechanisms, from word, line and block completion to ctags. The aim is to type less and make fewer typos.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN users say it made Vim's completion system click for them.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “I think the most important video I watched about vim was about text completion in a thoughtbot meetup”

    Covers ctags, jumplist and word, line and block completion.

    raman162, 2021-11 · Strong recommendation · in “Happy birthday Vim (2020)”

  2. “This presentation taught me alot”

    Taught basic command completion in Vim.

    AdmiralAsshat, 2017-04 · Recommendation · in “Switching to Sublime Text from Vim in 2017”

  3. “it "clicked" for me after watching this video”

    Made Vim's completion system click for the commenter.

    justinmk, 2017-10 · Recommendation · in “Vim after 15 Years”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: vim, autocomplete, ctags, text editing, thoughtbot

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