Vim Mastery: Surrounding Text

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Your Teacher | Jeffrey Way

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Hi, I'm Jeffrey. I'm the creator of Laracasts and spend most of my days building the site and thinking of new ways to teach confusing concepts. I live in Orlando, Florida with my wife and two kids.

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Published on Feb 16th, 2016

Tim Pope's excellent Surround plugin is a stable in every Vim user's tool belt. Need to quickly change single quotes to double quotes? Or do you want to instantly delete a surrounding HTML tag, or update it to a new one all together? With this plugin, it's all a cinch.

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Episodes

Hello, Vim

Free Episode 2:33
Finding Your Way Around

Free Episode 12:20
Mappings and Commands

15:04
A Prettier Vim

5:35
Optimizing Window Splits

4:34
Vundle and Better File Browsing

10:07
Faster Browsing with CtrlP

6:08
Configuration Tweaks

7:17
Browse Like a Pro With Ctags

9:28
Custom Highlighting

5:01
Site-Wide Search and Replace

9:08
PeepOpen

5:04
Laravel-Specific Mappings

5:24
Managing Snippets

6:33
Surrounding Text

3:19
PHP Optimizations

6:54
Auto-Completions

10:30
Automatic PSR-2 Formatting

4:32
Marks

9:56
Tabs, Indents, and Spaces

5:17
Fun With Macros

6:29
PHP Documentor and Ultisnips

6:14