NeoVintageous 1.18.0 has just been released. The highlights of this release are sessions, unimpaired enhancements, visual block enhancements, search enhancements, and :substitute enhancements.

Sessions

Command-line and search-string history are now persisted between sessions. To cycle through history items press the up and down arrows keys or the previous and next keys CTRL-p /CTRL-n.

Unimpaired enhancements

command description
[n Go to the previous SCM conflict marker. Try [n inside a conflict.
]n Go to the next SCM conflict marker. Try ]n inside a conflict.

Try jump-to-diff commands [c and ]c

Visual block enhancements

You can now paste visual blocks in normal mode. For example press CTRL-v to enter visual block mode, make a selection jll, yank it y, and now you can paste it after the cursor p or before P.

You can enter multiple cursor mode from visual block mode by pressing CTRL-n (requires ctrl keys to be enabled) or gh. You can use normal motions and operators in multiple cursor mode!

Substitute enhancements

The substitute command now accepts a case sensitive flag I. For example to replace all patterns matching “foo” (case sensitive) with “bar”:

:%s/foo/bar/gI

To do the same replacement case insensitive:

:%s/foo/bar/gi

The g flag in substitution commands tells the command to replace all occurrences in the line. Without this argument, replacement occurs only for the first occurrence in each line.

The substitute command is case sensitive by default. This is controlled by the 'ignorecase' option. To change the default open your runtime configuration file and add:

set ignorecase

or (default):

set noignorecase

Search modifiers

Some basic support for search modifiers is now supported. Modifiers allow search patterns to be prefixed with “modes” to override the 'magic' option.

modifier description
\m 'magic' on for the following chars in the pattern.
\M 'magic' off for the following chars in the pattern.
\v the following chars in the pattern are “very magic”.
\V the following chars in the pattern are “very nomagic”.

For example, when magic mode is enabled the pattern [0-9] is interpreted as a regular expression. When you want it to be interpreted literally prefix the “very nomagic” modifier:

/\V[0-9]

To make pattern be interpreted as regular expression use the magic \m modifier:

/\m[0-9]

Magic mode is enabled by default. To change the default open your runtime configuration file and add:

set nomagic

or (default):

set magic

Note that currently \m and \v are functionally equivalent, as are \M and V.

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