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Ruslan Osipov
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Ruslan Osipov

Ruslan Osipov is a software engineer at Google, an avid traveler, and a part-time blogger. He is a self-taught engineer. He started publishing personal Vim notes in 2012, and became increasingly interested in the intricacies of the editor and its applications in optimizing development workflows.
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Seven habits of effective text editing

This section is a condensed version of Bram Moolenaar's article from 2000, and a subsequent presentation from 2007. It's rather good, give it a read on Bram's website: https://moolenaar.net/habits.html. In case you decide to skip reading the whole thing, here follows a very high-level summary.

Since developers spend so much time reading and editing code, Bram highlights an important cycle when it comes to improving your text-editing experience:

  1. Detect inefficiency
  2. Find a quicker way
  3. Make it a habit

Those three steps are augmented with numerous examples. Here's one of the examples for each:

  1. Detect inefficiency: Moving around takes a lot of time.
  2. Find a quicker way: Often, you're looking for something that's already there. You can search for a piece of text to move faster. Or you can take a step or two further...
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Published in: Nov 2018Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789341096

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Ruslan Osipov

Ruslan Osipov is a software engineer at Google, an avid traveler, and a part-time blogger. He is a self-taught engineer. He started publishing personal Vim notes in 2012, and became increasingly interested in the intricacies of the editor and its applications in optimizing development workflows.
Read more about Ruslan Osipov