title: make that rather important part of Vim where you can type a colon and save and go to lines and search/replace etc. work date: 2018-07-23 publish: true
Install https://atom.io/packages/ex-mode
I made a pull request to improve the README.
An aside: Vim is great because it provides ‘composability’— build powerful commands from simple small ones (delete three characters with d3c
, copy (‘yank’) three words with y3w
). See this exposition on the lessons of Vi.
An aside to an aside: If for some reason you want to paste something multiple times, type the number first: 5p
.