Ok this is a truly deep post only for those who are living in vi/vim/neovim and have 400 files to manually edit (because they were idiots and didn’t use shellcheck early enough for their many random bash scripts). So if you have to do this, it rapidly becomes pretty old. You could try to write […]
Tag: vim
Advanced vim hacking with neovim, coc, fzf and ripgrep
This product is so deep that I can’t even say how powerful it is. I’ve actually used the very first version of vi (pronounced “vee-eye”) when Bill Joy did the first cut, Wikipedia says it was in the very first BSD version, but that’s a longer story that doesn’t provide the whole story on how […]
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More linting is good
Well we’ve been using mypy and other python checking for a while, but just realized that there are ton more for just about any file type: Shellcheck. this is a a great utility that finds all kinds of errors. In my best written shell script, it identified two serious bugs I didn’t realize that I […]
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Various Vim and Bash tricks
OK, if you are doing some major hacking with vim as your toy IDE, here are some advanced things: Rewrapping text. There are a bunch of tricks here, the most important is to put in .vimrc the lines set tw=79 wm=2 which means wrap around line 79. If you need to rewrap then your friend […]
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More Vi tips get the pipe output of a command
OK, this is kind of a neat trick. If you want to get the output of a shell command into Vi for further editing, there is an extension to the read command where you can say take the output of a pipe. What this says is to do a read like a traditional file, but […]
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Editing Markdown with Vi and copying in Email
Many times, when you are documenting a project, you just want to copy in some email. This turns out to be quite difficult to do, so here’s a guide: If you do a simple copy and paste into a text file, the indents are going to be horrible as is the word wrap. A simple […]
