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Introduction

Suppose that we have the following text in normal mode (cursor is indicated by
|):
|hello world
if we use dw, we delete hello1 and only world is left; if we
use de, hello is deleted and world is left. Have you ever wondered
about why dw do not delete w while de will delete the o in hello? It
seems that the motion e and w are somewhat inconsistent. It turns out that
this has something to do with the exclusivity of motions in Vim.

How to use global command to filter files

A protip by oz123 about vim and sudo.

If you are editing a file containing PHP script (for example) but the file doesn't have the extension.php, you can force the desired syntax coloring with:set syntax=php similarly:set...