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Moving Blocks of Text in Vim

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This gem comes courtesy of Mastering Vim Quickly. Before learning this trick, to move text I would yank/delete (Y/dd) the lines and then paste (p/P) where I wanted it to go. Inevitably I would either copy the wrong number of lines or paste the text in the wrong spot.

Add these lines to your .vimrc:

vnoremap J :m ‘>+1gv=gv
vnoremap K :m ‘<-2gv=gv

Open your file and enter Visual Mode (V) at the beginning of the block of text that you want to move. Using j or k move the visual selection over the text. To move the text up or down use K and J. Hit escape once the text is where you want it.

Here it is in action:

The Dreaded ‘Resource Has A Dependent Object’ Error

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If you spend a moderate amount of time creating and modifying AWS security groups, you will inevitably encounter the “Error deleting security group sg-12345678: resource sg-12345678 has a dependent object” error message.
AWS Security Group Dependent Object Error
Trying to find the security group that includes the group you want to delete can be an exercise in futility in the console. Instead, I make use of the CLI. I dumped all of my security groups into a text file:

aws ec2 describe-security-groups > securitygroups.txt

From there, I opened the securitygroups.txt file in vim and searched for sg-12345678. One entry is for the security group itself and all other matches are for security groups that include the group I want to delete.

It’s also possible that the group is attached to a network interface. I found the solution for this situation here.