VimR

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 it worked. i.e. I got it running. But I didn’t like their default look.

Back to Lunar Nvim

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 installed ltex LSP for makrdown, which I could not do with Doom Nvim. My other requirement was projectile equivalent. I found that there is :Telescope projects built-in with Lunar.

Doom Nvim Maintainer Leaving (?)

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 ecosystem isn’t going in the direction I would like and I think it never will be so I’m very frustrated and sad with it.

Doom Nvim

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 Lunar NVim post, I am happy with Doom emacs. But this might make me switch back to (n)vim 😄

Lunar Nvim

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 cargo. I knew it a package manager(?) for rust, but didn’t know whether I could install it standalone.

Installed `most` pager on macOS

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 linux distro make it available via their package manager. I did not find any mention of macOS though.

Dooble Browser

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 more thoroughly. FWIW, it did not register itself as a browser with macOS – which seems OS specific requirement.

Espanso 2.x (Alpha)

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 Alt+Space did not work. I was not surprised, because this key combination triggers Raycast on my machine. So I went looking for way to change the hotkey, and reached an issue which mentioned that search bar is a feature of 2.

Espanso (Legacy)

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

Logseq

I came across logseq long ago, of all the places on Dendron’s discord channel. It has other-projects channel just for this purpose. Logseq was still early back then (compared to Dendron at least). I tried, but did not like it. Plus Dendron was much better. Today, I came across Logseq again, when I was perusing my colleague’s twitter feed and noticed that he is using it. So I checked it again.