{"id":30332,"date":"2019-02-06T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=30332"},"modified":"2019-02-06T09:00:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T09:00:47","slug":"getting-started-with-vim-visual-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=30332","title":{"rendered":"Getting started with Vim visual mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/programming_code_keyboard_orange_hands.png\" width=\"520\" height=\"292\" alt=\"Programming at a browser, orange hands\" title=\"Programming at a browser, orange hands\"><\/p>\n<p>Ansible playbook files are text files in a YAML format. People who work regularly with them have their favorite editors and plugin extensions to make the formatting easier.<\/p>\n<p>When I teach Ansible with the default editor available in most Linux distributions, I use Vim&#8217;s visual mode a lot. It allows me to highlight my actions on the screen&mdash;what I am about to edit and the text manipulation task I&#8217;m doing&mdash;to make it easier for my students to learn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/article\/19\/2\/getting-started-vim-visual-mode\">read more<\/a><br \/><ins class=\"adbladeads\" data-cid=\"24663-3514371590\" data-host=\"web.adblade.com\" data-tag-type=\"4\" style=\"display:none\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/web.adblade.com\/js\/ads\/async\/show.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ansible playbook files are text files in a YAML format. People who work regularly with them have their favorite editors and plugin extensions to make the formatting easier. When I teach Ansible with the default editor available in most Linux distributions, I use Vim&#8217;s visual mode a lot. It allows me to highlight my actions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}