vimclippy

Rich Cheng published on Wednesday, April 26, 2023 included in Tips

There used to be a nifty Mac utility called QuickCursor. It set up a global hotkey you could use whenever you were editing text in any app. When invoked, it would open up a copy of your chosen text editor1 passing the text into it. You could then edit away using the FULL POWER of your editing setup, and when you saved the file the text would be copied back into the app where it came from.

Conway's Game of Vim

Rich Cheng published on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 included in Fun with Macros

At the risk of making it seem like ALL I care about is macros (should’ve registered recursivemac.ro), here’s another post about macros!

Mystery Macro... Revealed

Rich Cheng published on Monday, April 24, 2023 included in Fun with Macros

Yesterday I posted a macro recording and asked if you could guess what it would do when played back.

Today, we find out the answer!

Mystery Macro

Rich Cheng published on Sunday, April 23, 2023 included in Fun with Macros

Here’s a puzzle for you. What does the following series of keystrokes do?¹

Welcome to Normal Mode

Rich Cheng published on Saturday, April 22, 2023 included in Housekeeping

Hi! Welcome to Normal Mode. This site is my love letter to the best text editor, and a compendium of some of the wonderful things you can do with it. I’ve got OODLES of CONTENT planned, so fire up your RSS reader, follow on Mastodon or Twitter, and get EXCITED about Vim WOOOOO.