So, why do I use VIM? I had a great example of this just today and I thought I’d share!!

For work I am needing to validate a CSV file with a massive header! So I pulled the header and pasted it into my class. I needed to convert the header to an array. So I needed to split each line with a ‘,’ and surround each field with ‘’s. In VS Code on a Mac lots of going back and forth. With Vim, I can just use ‘.’ to repeat the ‘,’ element…so ‘w,w’ brings me to the start of the next word and a ‘.’ repeats the ‘,’ and inserts a carriage return as well. It took me about ten seconds to do that. Then for the surround word, I created a macro to surround a word this single quotes and then I just ran it against the list…again, minutes is all it took to surround all the items with single quotes!