Vim: Underlining a Line
September 12, 2023 —
Gregg Szumowski
Of course, Vim is just a text editor but you can
underline a line using a set of keystrokes that copies the
string to be underlined to the next line and then replaces the string
with hyphens using this set of Vim commands: YpVr-
So if you have a line:
This Is My Page Title
just position the cursor at the start of that line and enter the abovementioned commands and it will turn it into:
This Is My Page Title
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This would save you a few keystrokes if you use Vim for creating a lot of text documentation and use hyphens a lot in your section headers.