The benefits of getting to grips with Vim are immense in terms of editing speed and maintaining your “flow” when you’re on a roll, whether writing code, poetry, or prose, but because the learning curve is so steep for a text editor, it’s very easy to retain habits from your time learning the editor that stick with you well into mastery. Because Vim makes you so fast and fluent, it’s especially hard to root these out because you might not even notice them, but it’s worth it. Here I’ll list some of the more common ones.
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regex101 for the terminal — real-time matching, 3 engines, capture groups, replace mode, syntax highlighting, plain-English explanations, undo/redo, mouse support. Written in Rust.
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ViteConf
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Anti-patterns: things to avoid - Agentic Engineering Patterns
Anti-patterns: things to avoid - Agentic Engineering Patterns
Anti-patterns: things to avoid - Agentic Engineering Patterns
Anti-patterns: things to avoid - Agentic Engineering Patterns