Hacker News Reader

Here are my 2 cents

set undofile " This creates a undo file that persists your undo history when the file gets closed

imap >> <ESC> " Double right arrow to escape from insertion mode. This is faster and more comfortable (at least for me) than to reach for tab key for some people

set clipboard=unnamed " This is bridges between your Vim yanks and your system clipboard

View on HN

undofile sounds great! I didn't know about it.

Some people use jj to go to the normal mode. Personally I remapped Caps Lock to Escape in my whole system, so I can go to normal mode easily.

You can yank to the system clipboard by providing appropriate register to yank into. You do that by pressing "* before the yank command (e.g. "*yy to yank the current line).

I have some code to keep the undo/backup/swaps in a sane place... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4331776/change-vim-swap-b...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com