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I've been using vim for 7 years and I've never even attempted to use this mode. Am I missing out?

• rkowalick 12y ago
  It seems like a very good way of using vim knowledge to do non-interactive text processing. You could say, indent a javascript file that is ugly.
  • tyler_ball 12y ago
    easier than hitting gg=G ?
    • kevinmgranger 12y ago
      non-interactive
  • deleted 12y ago
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• krick 12y ago
  Usually not, but over 7 years it's quite probable that there was a couple of times when it would be useful. It's good for batch processing (maybe over several files) using usual vim commands. Something like awk embedded in vim.
• peterevans 12y ago
  You might be, if you write plugins for vim! But if you don't, then no, probably not. It's handy to test some arbitrary commands which might go into a vim script or, more likely for the average user of vim, your .vimrc file.