From fd47330e6d9a2a24fd0a644315659cf6e2c9aab0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason Swank <632526+jswank@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:05:08 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] vim: add ctrl-b to create backticks

---
 vim/.config/vim/vimrc | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/vim/.config/vim/vimrc b/vim/.config/vim/vimrc
index a90058b..4b20b28 100644
--- a/vim/.config/vim/vimrc
+++ b/vim/.config/vim/vimrc
@@ -69,6 +69,9 @@ au FileType markdown setlocal tabstop=4 expandtab shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 wra
 " typing idate inserts the current date
 iab idate <c-r>=strftime("%Y-%m-%d")<cr>
 
+" insert triple backticks for markdown code blocks with Ctrl-b
+inoremap <C-b> ```<CR>```<Esc>O
+
 " use \ toc to insert a table of contents for markdown from the current line to EOF
 " nmap <leader>toc <cmd>.put =execute('.,$write !gh-md-toc --hide-header --hide-footer')<cr>
 nmap <leader>toc :put =system('gh-md-toc --hide-header --hide-footer --indent=4', getline('.', '$'))<cr>