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		49531 on Aug 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Learn Vim (the Smart Way): a book to learn the goo... I was using vim for years before discovering the dot operator. Truly a game changer.

wyclif on Aug 27, 2020 [–]

Yeah, I use combinations like 'dw...' and 'dd...' a lot. So simple, but a lot of people don't know that's built in.

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