The most useful command, in my experience, is ‘:s’—it alone justified the use of Vim for me. I occasionally drop some lines in Vim, use ‘:s’ and paste the resul

The most useful command, in my experience, is ‘:s’—it alone justified the use of Vim for me. I occasionally drop some lines in Vim, use ‘:s’ and paste the result into the terminal—simply because it's much easier to edit multiple shell commands this way than to figure out how to do it with sed or whatnot.