How to quickly create Setext headers when writing Markdown with Vim

When writing Markdown, you can define headers using the Setext style like so:

This is a header
================

If you use Vim for writing your text, you can quickly turn a line into a header with this short key combination:

yypVr=

What it does (bold text indicates the current cursor position/selection):

  1. yy yanks (copies) the current line: 
    I want to be a header
  2. p pastes the yanked line below the current one and places the cursor on the first character of the pasted line 
    I want to be a header
I want to be a header
  3. V visually selects the current line (the pasted one) 
    I want to be a header
I want to be a header
  4. r= replaces every character in the current selection with the character = 
    I want to be a header
=====================

Easy, right? Another reason to love Vim! 🙂

Über Stefan

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