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vim-unimpaired

unimpaired.vim: Pairs of handy bracket mappings

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unimpaired.vim: Pairs of handy bracket mappings

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-06-03 13:57:05 UTC to 2023-12-27 15:50:50 UTC.

0122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

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20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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"antagonistic" wasn't the exact right word... like, the same word but less strong, lol. > I think not supporting selection with Shift and Control+Shift+Arrows may drive intermediate users away. I actually don't have anything like this to move words around! I use `]e` and `[e` from tpope's unimpaired [0] for moving lines around (I use tons from that plugin). I may toy around with some word-moving mappings. I do agree with readline everywhere! I'm on mac and have it configured so readline works in all apps, lol. Again with the tpope plugins, vim-rsi is a great plugin and I very much agree with its premise: I love the stand vim bindings in command mode but when in some kind of "insert" mode, even outside of vim, I want readline! [0] https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired [1] https://github.com/tpope/vim-rsi
In Show HN: CuteVim – Portable Vim with a cute vimrc
I’ve been using tpope’s excellent unimpaired.vim¹ to handle toggling paste for me², but will probably switch as vim-bracketed-paste is automatic. I only bring up unimpaired.vim as it provides a whole heap of neat mappings for other toggles you might be manually performing. Most of which follow a simple pattern that makes them easy to remember. I don’t believe any other plugin has increased my productivity as much as unimpaired.vim. Popping up the doc to link to the YOPO note I’ve realised just how many of those next/previous bindings I use as muscle memory. ¹. https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired.git ². https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired/blob/master/doc/unim...
In Bracketed paste mode (2013)
People seem to swear by NerdTree, but I personally don't see the purpose of it. Sure it may be nice to see your file structure sometimes, but having a terminal open or even just the actual folder window open solves that. Everything else can be done with the built-in :Ex command, which lets you navigate to open files, create new files, rename, delete, mostly everything you want. As for other plug-ins, there are a few I would recommend (can you tell I'm a Tim Pope fan?): - vim-commentary: Gives bindings for commenting out code quickly: https://github.com/tpope/vim-commentary - vim-surround: Easily surround selected text with symbols: https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround - vim-unimpared: Adds bindings for some misc. commands, like enabling relative line numbers and spellcheck: https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired - vim-repeat: Allows man
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y more commands to be repeated with . : https://github.com/tpope/vim-repeat - VimCompletesMe: A much more bare-bones auto-completion tool than YouCompleteMe, hitting tab gives you matches from your previously typed text. It's also all in vimscript so it's much easier to install and manage: https://github.com/ajh17/VimCompletesMe - Pathogen: A plug-in manager, if you can call it that. It simply re-adjusts the file paths so you can centralize your plugin directory. Some plug-in managers will auto-update, but I never liked that, just run git pull if you wish to update a plugin: https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen There are some other cosmetic ones I like as well, like airline, and vim-highlightyank, but that's a personal preference.
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