https://go.waylonwalker.com/tags/vim/ All posts with the tag "vim" Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:59:33 +0000 markata-go https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification https://go.waylonwalker.com/til/tpope-vim-speeddating/ Today I discovered vim-speeddating by tpope. I'm sure I've seen years ago but it did not click for my workflow until today. I often go through pictures from... Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:59:33 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/til/tpope-vim-speeddating/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim https://go.waylonwalker.com/vim-noa/ Vim is a command that runs what you call without autocommands on. This is typically used when you have some commands for formatting, most auto formatters are... Fri, 29 Aug 2025 08:32:44 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/vim-noa/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim https://go.waylonwalker.com/fixed-long-standing-nvim-startup-error/ Here's the diff, this is it. Thu, 13 Feb 2025 08:41:39 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/fixed-long-standing-nvim-startup-error/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim nvim https://go.waylonwalker.com/vim-date/ When I want to put a date in a document like a blog post from vim I use !!date from insert mode. Note that entering from normal mode puts you in command mode... Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:51:00 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/vim-date/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim nvim https://go.waylonwalker.com/nvim-manager/ I recently built a cli application as a nearly-one-shot-app called nvim-manager. It manages your nvim dotfiles install. Sun, 12 Jan 2025 21:14:19 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/nvim-manager/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim nvim linux python https://go.waylonwalker.com/thought-407/ !https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/2232#issuecomment-1228632218 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:36:25 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/thought-407/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim regex refactoring thought https://go.waylonwalker.com/vim-gq/ Vim has a handy feature to format text with . You can use it in visual mode, give it a motion, or if you give it it will format the current line. I use this... Mon, 05 Aug 2024 12:22:00 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/vim-gq/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim neovim https://go.waylonwalker.com/thought-327/ !https://www.youtube.com/shorts/v2a6Nv7RSd0 Sun, 30 Jun 2024 17:30:38 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/thought-327/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim regex thought https://go.waylonwalker.com/refactoring-into-wikilinks/ Previously I had setup a feature of my website to expand one line links into a card. This was not a standard, even to the point that some formatters wrap the... Fri, 31 May 2024 20:33:10 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/refactoring-into-wikilinks/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim https://go.waylonwalker.com/thought-242/ !None Tue, 16 Apr 2024 01:34:38 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/thought-242/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim thought https://go.waylonwalker.com/thought-241/ !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRnWmNdf5IE&t=612 Sat, 13 Apr 2024 13:42:56 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/thought-241/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim nvim thought https://go.waylonwalker.com/thought-200/ !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_Ekt1PZBzQ&t=351s Fri, 26 Jan 2024 17:21:06 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/thought-200/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim regex thought https://go.waylonwalker.com/nvim-stupid-gf-bind/ So after months of fighting with gf not going to template files, I finally decided to put in some effort to make it work. Thu, 28 Dec 2023 10:04:57 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/nvim-stupid-gf-bind/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim https://go.waylonwalker.com/thought-151/ !https://neovim.io/doc/user/diagnostic.html#vim.diagnostic.reset() Wed, 25 Oct 2023 14:01:06 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/thought-151/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim thought https://go.waylonwalker.com/thought-124/ !https://twitter.com/bbelderbos/status/1709525676154368055 Thu, 05 Oct 2023 01:34:19 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/thought-124/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim regex thought https://go.waylonwalker.com/thought-73/ !https://github.com/jose-elias-alvarez/null-ls.nvim/wiki/Formatting-on-save#code Sun, 06 Aug 2023 01:19:23 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/thought-73/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim nvim thought https://go.waylonwalker.com/thought-2/ !https://www.lazyvim.org/installation Fri, 28 Jul 2023 14:59:37 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/thought-2/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim linux thought https://go.waylonwalker.com/extending-vim-with-shell-commands/ Vimconf 2022 Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:38:11 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/extending-vim-with-shell-commands/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim https://go.waylonwalker.com/nvim-navic/ With the latest release of version of nvim 0.8.0 we get access to a new winbar feature. One thing I have long wanted somewhere in my nvim is navigation for... Thu, 27 Oct 2022 20:13:20 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/nvim-navic/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim https://go.waylonwalker.com/vimgrep-open-buffers/ How to vimgrep over hidden files. Mon, 22 Aug 2022 13:17:32 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/vimgrep-open-buffers/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim https://go.waylonwalker.com/vim-plugged-snapshot/ A few of my friends and I all just borked our neovim configs during a plug update, and because none of us were using it was painful to recover from. Fri, 13 May 2022 19:56:38 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/vim-plugged-snapshot/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim https://go.waylonwalker.com/vim-markdown-links/ Let's make a vim command to automatically collect all the links in these posts at the end of each article. Regex confuses the heck out of me... I don't have... Sat, 19 Mar 2022 19:11:27 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/vim-markdown-links/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim webdev meta https://go.waylonwalker.com/nvr-open-files/ I recently found a really great plugin by mhinz to open files in neovim from a different tmux split, without touching neovim at all. Sun, 06 Mar 2022 16:22:49 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/nvr-open-files/ hello@waylonwalker.com python vim tmux https://go.waylonwalker.com/vim-cmd/ Anyone just starting out their vim customization journey is bound to run into this error. Mon, 14 Feb 2022 14:53:17 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/vim-cmd/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim linux cli https://go.waylonwalker.com/neovim-config-for-git/ Creating a minimal config specifically for git commits has made running much more pleasant. It starts up Much faster, and has all of the parts of my config... Fri, 04 Feb 2022 14:23:57 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/neovim-config-for-git/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim linux bash https://go.waylonwalker.com/ubuntu-terminal-clipboard/ One of the first things I noticed broken in my terminal based workflow moving from Windows wsl to ubuntu was that my clipboard was all messed up and not... Wed, 26 Jan 2022 02:50:56 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ubuntu-terminal-clipboard/ hello@waylonwalker.com linux vim tmux https://go.waylonwalker.com/markata-telescope-picker/ I often pop into my blog from neovim with the intent to look at just a single series of posts, , , or just see todays posts. Markata has a great way of... Sun, 23 Jan 2022 04:52:20 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/markata-telescope-picker/ hello@waylonwalker.com python cli vim markata https://go.waylonwalker.com/nvim-rename-python/ I don't use refactoring tools as much as I probably should. mostly because I work with small functions with unique names, but I recently had a case where a... Sun, 16 Jan 2022 15:27:22 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/nvim-rename-python/ hello@waylonwalker.com python vim vim https://go.waylonwalker.com/remove-vim-tab-characters/ I've been stuck many times looking at a vim buffer with little question marks at the beginning of each line and trying to get rid of them. for so long I... Thu, 06 Jan 2022 01:49:31 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/remove-vim-tab-characters/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim linux https://go.waylonwalker.com/list-all-files-containing-phrase/ One of the most useful skills you can acquire to make you faster at almost any job that uses a computer is getting good at finding text in your current... Fri, 31 Dec 2021 20:24:48 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/list-all-files-containing-phrase/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim linux bash https://go.waylonwalker.com/serve-html-command-line/ When I first moved to vim from and ide like vscode or sublime text one of my very first issues was trying to preview my website at . There had always just... Tue, 28 Dec 2021 20:24:48 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/serve-html-command-line/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim linux bash https://go.waylonwalker.com/nvim-telescope-custom-command/ Many command line tools can output a list of files, this is quite powerful. I often want to search for something, then open it from a fuzzy picker. This can... Mon, 27 Dec 2021 20:24:48 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/nvim-telescope-custom-command/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim https://go.waylonwalker.com/nvim-telescope-hidden-files/ Finding hidden files using Telescope as you fuzzy file finder is not too hard, its a single flag passed in. Then it will use whichever file finder it can... Sun, 26 Dec 2021 20:24:48 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/nvim-telescope-hidden-files/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim https://go.waylonwalker.com/fugitive-commit-verbose/ Fugitive comes with a pretty sick way to commit files and see the diff at the same time with verbose commit. Opening the fugitive menu with brings up your... Wed, 22 Dec 2021 19:34:18 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/fugitive-commit-verbose/ hello@waylonwalker.com git vim https://go.waylonwalker.com/vim-augroup/ If you are running vim autocmd's without a group, you're killing your performance. Granted your probably not sourcing your vimscript files with autocmd's too... Wed, 08 Dec 2021 08:43:43 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/vim-augroup/ hello@waylonwalker.com linux vim https://go.waylonwalker.com/setup-yamlls/ I've gone far too long without a good setup for editing yaml files, I am missing out on autocomplete and proper diagnostics. This ends today as I setup... Fri, 03 Dec 2021 23:24:52 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/setup-yamlls/ hello@waylonwalker.com linux vim neovim https://go.waylonwalker.com/install-nvim-skit/ In honor of the neovim 0.6.0 release, I decided to do a funny skit installing neovim, and fix up my install script in the process as part of my challenge to... Tue, 30 Nov 2021 23:18:24 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/install-nvim-skit/ hello@waylonwalker.com linux vim neovim https://go.waylonwalker.com/telegraph-release/ I've slowly adding more and more lua functions into my neovim configuration, and recently I noticed a pattern for a class of functions that reach out to run... Tue, 05 Oct 2021 08:04:44 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/telegraph-release/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim linux https://go.waylonwalker.com/vim-fundamentals-2/ newline another Fri, 27 Aug 2021 22:40:45 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/vim-fundamentals-2/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim https://go.waylonwalker.com/modal-jumping/ nnoremap <leader>e :execute getline(".")<cr>j nnoremap <c-j> g, nnoremap <c-k> g; nnoremap <c-j> <c-]> nnoremap <c-k> g; nnoremap <c-j> :cnext<cr> nnoremap <c-k> :cprev<cr> nnoremap <c-j> :lnext<cr> nnoremap <c-k> :lprev<cr> nnoremap <c-j> :tnext<cr> nnoremap <c-k> :tprevious<cr> nnoremap <c-j> :trewind<cr> nnoremap <c-k> :tprevious<cr> Thu, 03 Jun 2021 21:30:35 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/modal-jumping/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim https://go.waylonwalker.com/setup-pylsp/ Setting up python with the native nvim>0.5 lsp was mr Mon, 17 May 2021 16:13:42 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/setup-pylsp/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim linux python https://go.waylonwalker.com/vim-diffsplit/ :vert diffsplit filetwo.py :diffthis :diffoff :Gdiff main Thu, 06 May 2021 09:43:17 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/vim-diffsplit/ hello@waylonwalker.com linux vim https://go.waylonwalker.com/vim-wsl-clipboard/ I've long used neovim from within windows wsl, and for far too long, I went without a proper way to get text out of it and into windows. Sat, 17 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/vim-wsl-clipboard/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim bash https://go.waylonwalker.com/vim-replace-visual-star/ Replacing text based on whats in the current search register is a quite handy tool that I use often. I believe I picked this tip up from Nick Janetakis,... Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/vim-replace-visual-star/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim https://go.waylonwalker.com/save-vim-macro/ If you are like me, you have created a macro or two that is pure glory, and you forget how you made it after a day or so, or you immediately want to store it... Mon, 04 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/save-vim-macro/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim https://go.waylonwalker.com/neovim-live-substitution/ Replacing text in vim can be quite frustrating especially since it doesn't have live feedback to what is changing. Today I was watching Josh Branchaud's... Mon, 04 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/neovim-live-substitution/ hello@waylonwalker.com linux vim https://go.waylonwalker.com/keep-location-list-closed/ Vim's (neovim in my case) location list can provide some very useful information while developing. Mine gives me information about linting and type checking... Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/keep-location-list-closed/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim https://go.waylonwalker.com/vim-notes/ norcalli/neovim-plugin Thu, 01 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/vim-notes/ hello@waylonwalker.com vim