Collection of some vim text magic

vim_tips.md

Adding commas to the end of a po numbers

• This assumes that the items you have are one per line

1. Go to the top of the list
2. Go to the end of the word/number of the first word (SHIFT + $)
3. Hit Crtl + V
4. Hit Shift + g
5. Hit Shift + $ (this will remove the highlight of the entire block and only leave the last character highlighted)
6. Hit Shift + A
7. Hit , (for this case, but it can be any character that you want)
8. Hit esc (commas [or whatever character you pressed] are now added to the end

Combining a list into just one line

• Highlight all that you want to combine

1. Shift + V
2. Shift + g
3. Shift + j

Saving a file even if you did not open it with sudo

:w !sudo tee %