Vim

Vim alternatives on OpenBSD

       2380 words, 12 minutes

I’ve been using vi like forever. I was never an Emacs guy and I can’t stand nano and alike. The only other editors I use are Mousepad and Vim.

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Execute current edited script in Vim

       72 words, 1 minutes

When you edit a script using Vim, you may want to run the script without actually quitting the editor. This is easily done using the following Vim command: <Esc>:!%<Enter> Once the script has run, Vim will display its output and pause until you Press ENTER or type command to continue. That’s all. It is published here so that I don’t have to query stackoverflow the next time I forget about it 🤣

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Spell checking in Vim

       339 words, 2 minutes

Believe it or not, I do all my editing stuff with Vim. This includes writing emails and editing this blog content. One thing I was missing, compared to using Thunderbird or LibreOffice, is the spell checking feature. Until I took 10 minutes to read the Vim documentation .

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