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		gregnavis on Feb 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vim After 11 Years 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).

docwhat on Feb 24, 2013 [–]

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

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