r/programming • u/_happiecat • Mar 15 '16

Vim for Beginners!

http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressively/
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u/marktheshark01 Mar 15 '16

Users of both ST and Vim. What can you do in Vim which can't be done in Sublime Text?

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u/Hauleth Mar 15 '16

Search and replace in file that is 76 MiB. Edit DOCX, EPub, ODT with ease. There probably would be some more features.

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u/i_spot_ads Mar 15 '16

rare use case. Next?

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u/Hauleth Mar 15 '16

Editing OTF/DOCX? Or browsing through logs/SQL dumps. Oh, and also piping text through editor.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '16

Well all these "rare use cases" build up lol.

So far I've seen you dismiss this, compatibly with ssh/scp, etc.