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+title: "Vim Tips 2015-03-17"
+description: "First Vim tip post of a series of unknown size"
+tags:
+  - "Vim"
+  - "Tips and Tricks"
+  - "Editors"
+date: "2015-03-17"
+categories:
+  - "Development"
+  - "Editors"
+  - "Tools"
+slug: "vim-tips-2015-03-17"
+---
+
+This is the start of a series of posts about better Vim usage. It's yet to be
+determined how often and how frequent this will run, but expect more than just
+this first post.
+
+## Folds ##
+
+When using manual folding, creating a fold in Vim is as easy as one command:
+
+In normal mode, `zf<movement>`.
+
+For example, while in Java code and on a Method opening curly brace, type
+`zf%`.
+
+And a fold is now created around that method. You can toggle it open and closed
+with `za`, you can also open it with `zo` and you can close it with `zc`.
+
+Similarly, to remove a fold created by `zf`, use `zd<movement>` to remove
+folds.
+
+From the above example, while in normal mode, typing `zd%` will remove the fold
+for the method's block.
+
+For more information about folding and the other modes, visit the [Vim wiki
+page][2] on folding.
+
+## Substitution Range ##
+
+Here are some more explicit examples of the range options provided when doing
+substitutions:
+
+To substitute the first occurrence of the pattern in the current line:
+
+   :s/foo/bar
+
+All occurrences:
+
+    :s/foo/bar/g
+
+Entire file, first occurrence:
+
+    :%s/foo/bar/
+
+Entire file, all occurrences:
+
+    :%s/foo/bar/g
+
+Now for something completely different, specific ranges:
+
+    :<starting line>,<ending line>s/foo/bar[/g]
+
+End today's kicker: changing from a line to the end of the file:
+
+    :<start>,$s/foo/bar[/g]
+
+Visit [Vim Ranges][3] to view more information about the ranges available in
+Vim.
+
+## References ##
+
+[1]: http://zzapper.co.uk/vimtips.html
+
+*   [Vim Tips][1]
+
+[2]: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Folding
+
+*   [Vim Wikia: Folding][2]
+
+[3]: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Ranges
+
+*   [Vim Wikia: Ranges][3]