Comments by "Cees Timmerman" (@CTimmerman) on "THE TRUE POWER OF VIM - Saving hours of time with some vim magic" video.

  1. Lol. Notepad++ and any editor with decent regex replace can apply the proxy JSON to the matching server part in less than a minute. Pasting X times is kinda neat but then you'd have to count, remember, and repeat that count, which are error prone like forgetting which mode you're in. I think some Vim users have that sunk cost / Stockholm thing going on.
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  2. It does look like one. Instead of defeating the readability purpose with two spaces per indent in YAML, JSON uses {} and "" so it doesn't need excessive whitespace and can be autoformatted to anyone's liking. It appears he likes compact and in a single screen.
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  3. Or zoom in your phone display.
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  4. Just use a regex. This is what it was invented for.
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  5. Escape to command mode and enter :q! or :wq to save first.
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  6. Notepad++ with NppExec still has better output linking than VS Code and even PyCharm (columns).
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