#openbsd vi(1) is the most frequently used item from my toolset and objectivel

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1. gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe@mastodon.bsd.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

   @hi

   There are a few vimprovements that I miss when using vi(1)

   • text-objects like

   ci"

   or

   da(

   are incredibly powerful, especially when combined with the dot-operator to repeat the change

   • the far more powerful regular-expressions (things like positive/negative look-ahead/-behind)

   • the ability to evaluate expressions in replacements like :%s/\d\+/\=submatch(1)/g lets me do some amazingly-powerful edits on a regular basis

   • insert-mode completion (being able to do things like type control+p in Insert mode to search backwards for a word matching what I've started to type)

   For more info, the corresponding vim help targets are
   :help text-objects
   :help pattern
   :help sub-replace-\=
   :help ins-completion

   (I regularly use both vi(1) and vim depending on what the editing calls for)

2. chakuari@mastodon.bida.im ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

   @hi just one: it should read/write UTF-8. That’s why my first install is nvi2, as it’s not in -base.