vim Minimal and Clean Vim Airline Theme Remove the noisy colors in your Vim Airline theme. No status line background, no bright highlights, just low contrast text. Minimal use of color where needed.
vim Quickly Format and Indent JSON Files in a vim Buffer Skip the online JSON formatters! Run this directly in the vim command line and your minified JSON will be indented and readable, in your current buffer.
vim Close All Other Splits (windows) in vim If you work with multiple splits and want to focus on only the current window, you may find yourself jumping around closing all other windows.
vim Auto Save and Load Views in vim Simple vimrc addition to automatically save your buffer's view and load it the next time you open the file.
vim Making netrw Clean and Minimally Disruptive. Then Stop Using It. Before jumping to a project drawer/file browser plugin, let's make netrw clean and minimally disruptive. Then stop using it.
vim Can You Give Up Your Arrow Keys in Vim? Disable the arrow keys in vim and you will quickly build better habits for navigating pages, paragraphs, lines and words.
vim Vim Override Specific Highlights in a Color Scheme Without Changing its File Until recently I've always forked vim color schemes and tweaked a few bits, most often the background color. I use vim-plug and I didn't want to lose my changes so I'd fork, edit, commit and push- tedious and annoying.
vim Vim Jump to Next and Previous Blank Line After arriving at a page using ctrl + u or ctrl + d, jumping to the next or previous blank line can help navigate quicker than j and k.
vim Vim Fuzzy Find Files Without a Plugin Skip the plugins, vim can fuzzy find through your project just fine. And now you can simply type part of the file name. You even get tab completion and selection menu
vim Override Vim's Filetype Vim typically does a good job of file type detection for syntax highlighting, indenting, etc. But vim will punt on some file extensions (or lack thereof) for example yaml config files or markdown. Override the filetype in the buffer: :set ft=markdown Set the filetype in the file itself This
