Wrote a post about sorting lines in Neovim, almost wrote an intro to Vim instead

I've been using Neovim for years now, and I didn't know about the sort command. Cool trick.

    I still don’t yet know how to list all the available commands (if you know, email me how to do this!)

This command opens the command list in the reference manual:

    :help :ex-cmd-index<return>

Another tip: You can pipe text through shell commands with :! followed by the command.

For example, I always used to use :!sort, until I accidentally dropped the ! once and noticed that it still worked.

Most useful text-processing commands have some native way to do them in Vim, but I often haven't bothered to memorize them, when a shell command is just as easy to type and works in more contexts.

I just think it’s funny how my usage of vim is a borderline religion. I’m just so happy with it that I wanna share how to use it with everyone!

sort is one of those things I use fairly rarely (cli or nvim) but man when I need it, it is invaluable. Thanks for sharing.