What Vim features do you use?

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I spend almost all day programming in Vim and I am sure that a lot of you do too. What features do you use that make your day to day coding that much better? One that I use is gv, which will let you reselect the previously selected text. It is great for reindenting!

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:%s/x/y/g This command replaces all instances of x in the current file with y. This is basically just a find and replace, but I use it so often since I've learned it at work that it has become invaluable. Also, /search string then n to navigate thro…

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