Vim Tips

Hello! Vim is a great editor (the best text editor in my opinion). But at first look it seems crazy and very confuse.

Vertical selection:
Many people know the visual selection, but Vim has also the vertical selection:

CTRL + v

produces this:

vertical selection example.
bla bla bla bla bla bla
ble ble ble ble ble ble
bli bli bli bli bli bli
blo blo blo blo blo
blu blu blu blu blu


Auto indent on past:
When you past any content copied from another application (ie. firefox), vim automatically indent each line, but it's useless. So you can change this configuration while past:

:set paste
then... past your text...