What am I doing right Now ? Notes too short or informal for full sized post.
When working on large(ish) code files, sometimes it is easier to fold rest of the code from that file and focus on one “block” at a time.
I use the word “block” because based on the context, it means different things. It could be as big as a class (if the file contains …
NvChad is yet another neovim starter kit.
Creator of NvChad is on the VimUser’s Telegram Group. So I was intrigued to try NvChad. (I had tried it a while ago, but decided to visit it later. That “later” is now)
One of the plugin I use is Telekasten. It reminds me of Dendron, …
Earlier I imported the data to locally running Elastic (via Docker)
But others in my team could not run Docker on their machines, so we decided to use a hosted Elastic server.
The steps to import the data were the same. Well, almost. Because this was a hosted instance, it would not allow operations …
Some time ago, I started using kitty terminal emulator. I used Alacritty for a long time. But Alacritty is meant to be minimalistic in a sense it does not even have concept of having different tabs.
The suggestion/solution is to use tmux (or like) to manage different shell instances.
And I did that. …
Official instructions are here but it did not work for me.
I did not understand Drag kitty.icns onto the application icon in the kitty info pane part.
I tried dragging the icon, but could not make it work.
I gave up. I can live with the default icon.
But then I came across the following instructions …
This is the first time I’m setting up elasticsearch
While one can set it up natively via brew I have learnt longtime ago to use docker for complex, server type applications.
Elastic search’s official document also suggests the docker in their Getting Started.
I’ve made summary of …
I wrote about espanso in past here and here, and I’ve been using it ever since.
Since helix is (for now) terminal-only editor, my espanso shortcuts work very well with it.
e.g. I can type :smile: and get 😄, and type thru and get through (Automatic correct the usually misspelled words 🎉) …
One of the thing that I thought was missing from Helix editor was integration with a decent grammar checker tool.
On Emacs and neovim, I use ltex-ls.
To my surprise, it works well (I’m using it already) with Helix.
It is probably not well documented though. I had to look through the github …
I came across Helix Editor on youtube when watching about neovim related video.
It is vim like editor. That is, a modal editor.
But it is different in one fundamental way, it terms of how commands work.
In (Neo)vim, it is action followed by object. So delete word becomes dw
But in Helix it is other …
In my tour of Neovim starter kits, I landed on SpaceVim
I started my Emacs journey with Spacemacs, and used it for couple of years before settling on Doom Emacs.
Spacemacs inspired SpaceVim.
I had liked the mnenomic keybindings in Spacemacs (and now in SpaceVim)
But Spacevim is different from how …
Today I discovered that I can open a nice floating Terminal in the middle of the screen by pressing Ctrl+\
Thanks to toggleterm plugin.
Earlier I used to use :terminal command, which would open a terminal in another tab. I had to switch tabs to use the terminal and going back to editing the files. …
I’ve started watching this YouTube playlist Neovim from scratch
It is a great learning resource.
I use a program called espanso for hotkey expansion across the OS, that has emoji completion option. But it does not work with Vim. Maybe because of modal editing 🤷
While it took me some time to …
On the Vim Telegram group, I came across this starter kit called Neovim from scratch
But this starter kit is different from others. Others are opinionated (with a good reason). This one seems like purpose built.
Purpose being - to teach the users what goes under the hood. So it comes with a YouTube …
Today I spent some time getting projectile equivalent working with LunarVim
At first I went with builtin/core plugin projects.nvim. Enabling it was quite straight forward.
I wasn’t sure how to add new project.
Then I tried telescope-projects. Even here I could not add new project (Per their …
Once I got Neovide working with LunarVim, I realized that I had not updated LunarVim for a long time.
I was already in rolling branch, so I did git pull origin rolling
Big mistake.
Things broke.
After RTFM, I noticed that there is :LvimUpdate command in LunarVim.
But by this time, my config was so …
So I tried VimR for some time, but it always felt odd. Sure all the LunarVim keybindings worked. But VimR wasn’t just Neovim client. It comes with its own features like the side panes for Files, Buffers, Markdown etc.
Also, it won’t really quit. :q! would destroy the window, but it would …
After setting up LunarVim, I wanted to get it to work with a NeoVim GUI
I had tried some in the past, but did not like any.
Then (I think on Discord) I came across some discussion that they got LunarVim (lvim henceforth) to work with Neoclide.
I couldn’t even get it to run 😞
I tried VimR, and …
After my problems with Doom NVim, I decided to go back to LunarNVim.
I had never really left, but since both Doom and Lunar are NVim based configurations, they may overwrite the configurations (like from ~/.local/share/nvim/)
So I completely removed both Doom and Lunar and reinstalled.
I also …
Just I was getting excited about Doom NVim, today I read (on their Discord server) that Alejandro aka NTBBloodbath on github has lost interest in Doom Nvim
To quote him :
I’ll slowly try to finally make Emacs my primary code editor (always failed in each attempt haha), Neovim’s …
Those who know me, probably already know that Doom Emacs has been my daily driver for a last years now.
and that recently neovim has piqued my interest.
I already wrote about Lunar NVim
Today I discovered Doom-Nvim
Port of (sorta) Doom emacs to neovim ecosystem.
What is not to like ? 😄
As I wrote in …
I came across some starter kits for nvim. Earlier I tried adding individual plugins and learning all the nvim basics, but since I’m pretty happy with Doom Emacs 1
But Lunar nvim seems stable and provides a lot of functionality out of the box. 👍
prerequisite page asks to ensure that I have …
Today while I was browsing thru The Tao of tmux - I came across a better pager called most
I think it is a play on default pagers called less and more
Unfortunately, the official website almost makes it impossible to find stuff about it.
Documentation is non existent.
I found elsewhere that most …
I came across Dooble browser via one of the Hacker news post.
The browser use Qt library and thus biased towards Linux. Or so I thought.
There is a pre-built dmg file for macOS.
It worked well in short test-run I did.
I wish there was a way to set it as a default browser, so I could have tested it …
While reading the documentation on Espanso’s main site, I noticed a Search bar feature.
To be sure, after some time, one is unlikely to remember all the shortcuts one has added, along with ones that came with packages.
So search bar is a welcome feature. But shortcut mentioned on the site …
Just as I was getting to know espanso, I came across a brand-new version of espanso that is way better that this (0.7.6) version, now called Legacy version. Read about the new version here
I have left the following as is, for posterity
Long time ago, when I used Windows (provided by my employer), I …