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Clearing the Current Row in Vim

Today I learned something really useful which started saving me a lot of time in vim. Up until recently, whenever I had to replace the content of the current row in a file, I had to:

• Go into Normal Mode
• Use dd to delete the current row’s contents
• Go to previous row, hit A followed by Enter
• Start typing relevant content

However, recently I realized that there is a default key-bind of S, which will clear the content of the current row and put you into insert mode at the correct indentation level. The workflow then becomes:

• Go into Normal Mode
• Hit S to clear row’s contents and go into insert mode
• Start typing relevant content

While this may seem like marginal improvements, it’s one less step which adds up over time. Hope this helped!