TIL Jumping around in vim
I always knew that <C-o> would let you jump back to the previous cursor position, even if it was in another file. (And when I say always, I mean always. Like Meno always knew geometry.) While I was backtracking around with <C-o> today, it occurred to me that there must be a way to jump forwards again, and of course there is. It's <C-i>. The one right next to o on my keyboard.
Bonus tip
I didn't learn this today, but it's still a good tip: similarly to <C-o> and <C-i>, you can jump to the last-edited line with '., and the last-edited part of the last-edited line with `. These marks are built into vim. But that's not the tip. The tip is that if you use which-key, which-key ships with plugins to display the current contents of your marks and registers when you hit ' or ", respectively. Marks and registers were both things I always meant to use more frequently, and this has helped me get there.
Lol ok another bonus
Ok this i really did also learn today--mere moments ago, in fact. If you want to escape a backtick in a markdown inline code block, use double backticks with space around them, like so:
`` `. ``
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