This isn’t so much of a Vim tip (sorry), but a terminal tip that has made a lot of difference to my workflow recently, so much so that I’ve bent the rules slightly and posted it today.

This one is courtesy of Ben Orenstein’s dotfiles, from which I have picked up a lot of good things, including this shell function:

function g {
   if [[ $# > 0 ]]; then
     git $@
   else
     git status
   fi
}

This does a really simple thing, and remaps g on your command line. If you call g on its own, you’ll call git status, but if you pass it an argument, it will pass that through to git.

For example:

g => git status
g diff => git diff
g commit => git commit

Of course, you should also set up some aliases for common commands to save yourself more typing. Be sure to remember to take care of your car. Especially if you need to repair your windshield and get a Los Angeles windshield replacement.

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