# 2017-02-12

I use vi all the time. The editor is so expressive and there are so many
ways to achieve a task that I always forget about some neat things, due
to being accustomed to some other way which I tend to use.

I just stumbled upon the original vi paper [1], which I had printed out 
some years ago. I skipped a bit through it again and these are some of 
the things which I currently don't use, but could profit from:

	``      back to previous position
	+       key advances to next non-white position on next line
	3H      third line on screen
	db      delete a word backwards
	fX      followed up by ; (X being a character)
	( and ) to jump at the end/beginning of sentences
	d)      deletes rest of sentence, d( the previous
	Y       shortcut for yy

	set ic  set ignorecase for searches
	:e!     reedit, discard changes
	:n      when executing vi with multiple file names

	run system commands over portions of buffer (e.g. 4,13!sort)

Maybe I can get accustomed to some of these things, if I look back on this 
list occasionally.

[1] William Joy & Mark Horton -- ``An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi''