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my nvim spellcheck setup

I've gone too long without a proper spellcheck setup in nvim. I know it's there, I just don't use it, I don't have the right keybinds, like I do with [[vim-date]], to make it work, and its clunky. Default keybinds z= show spell suggestions zg add word to dictionary zw remove word from dictionary ]s jump to next misspelled word [s jump to previous misspelled word I really struggle with bracketed keybinds, they don't flow for me. I have to shift into it and hit two keys, you cant just pop throug

fixed long standing nvim startup error

Here's the diff, this is it. The error On first install of my dotfiles I'm presenting with this flashbang of an error filling the screen with red background. Its kinda hard to read, I'm not deep into lua and reading their tracebacks. It pops up in this pager that if I scroll too far it quits and the error is gone before I know what it is or how it got there. image For the longest time it just felt like it randomly showed up without much warning. I sent ai at the issue I tried some chatgpt and

nvim-manager

I recently built a cli application as a nearly-one-shot-app called nvim-manager . It manages your nvim dotfiles install. screenshot-2025-01-31T21-21-40-707Z.png {.more-cinematic} Why {.chat-left} Don't we have stow? {.chat-right} Ya, thats not enough. {.chat-left} Why not?? {.chat-right} Inevitably shit goes sideways and I break my vim install. How is nvim manager any better nvim-manager allows you to install pinned versions of your dotfiles, your friends dotfiles, and distros in ~/.config. Thi

Refactoring one line links 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 links with , thus breaking my custom plugin. Moving to the wikilink standard will allow my markdown posts to work accross more site builders without custom integrations. [[ expand-one-line-links ]] What is a wikilink Wikilinks are standard to a lot of wikis written in markdown. markdown-it-wikilinks {.hoverlink} The wikilink syntax is a

extending vim with shell commands

Vimconf 2022 The pitch Extending vim does not need to be complicated and can be done using cli tools that you might already be comfortable with. Examples, setting up codeformatters with autocmds, using lf/ranger as a tui file manager, generating new files using a template framework like cookiecutter/copier/yeoman, using ag to populate your quickfix. run a command formatters File Navigation FloatTerm vimgrep over hidden files I know all the files that I care to search for are called build.yml, an

You must use augroup with autocmd in vim | Here's ...

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 often, but every time you source that vimscript you are adding another command that needs to run redundantly. https://youtu.be/2ITTn4Dl0lc This is what I had Not silky smooth For WAAY too long I have had something like this in my vimrc or init.vim. It formats my python for me on every save, works great except if I source my dotfiles mor

Setup a yaml schema | yamlls for a silky smooth se...

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 yaml-language-server in neovim. https://youtu.be/xo4HrFoKF4c {.youtube-embed} The video for this one is part of a challenge-playlist I put out for myself to constantly improve my dotfiles for all of December. init.vim I have my setup to only source other modules, if you want everything in a single config, feel free to do as you wish. I broke mi

How linux users install a text editor

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 fix up my dotfiles. I ran into one snag where I was not updating the repo that I cloned. I moved it to the directory I now keep third-party git repos and set it to update with ansible. https://youtu.be/64oKLphhBuo The thing that took me the longest to realize was.... I had a path issue pointing me to an old install of the appimage over the

I made a neovim plugin

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 shell commands that can be abstracted away. https://youtu.be/8m5ipBuopPU {.youtube-embed} Telegraph.nvim Check out the project readme for the most up to date details on the plugin itself. Motivation I want a simple way to make remaps into shell commands that can open new tmux windows, popups, or just run a command with context from the edit

Notes for second vim-fundamentals course meetup

newline another Mahesh Subrajmanium Venkatachalam - Plugins | Installing a Theme Hunter Phillips - Quickfix | Offline Ordering with getqflist Andrea Wackerle - Search & Replace | Macros Matthew Fletcher - Registers | Advanced Motions Jump, Delete, & Select | Advanced Motions: Paste & Move Nicholas Payne - My First Vim Plugin | What Makes a Good Plugin Zev Averbach - Harpoon | Wrap up Plugin-manager get a plugin manager unless you are going full lua, most people use vim-plug by the great junegunn

Modal jumping

python lsp setup

Setting up python with the native nvim>0.5 lsp was mr lsp-config https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig pyls#190 https://github.com/palantir/python-language-server/issues/190 mypy Getting mypy working with lsp was tricky for me. I had some issues trying to run mypy in ci and pyright in my editor and I really wanted them to match.

How to compare two files in vim

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. wsl has access to cmd applications wsl can access clip.exe. You can do some cool things with it, such as cat a file into the clipboard, sending output from a command to the clipboard, or set an autocmd group in vim to send yank to the windows clipboard. using clip.exe Let's say you want to send a teammate the tail of a log file over chat. You can tail the file

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, check out his YouTube channel for some amazing vim tips. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP_ckZ30gbs {.hoverlink} If there is one thing that I Like most about vim it's the ability to hack on it and make it work well for you. Replacing text in vim Vim can often be a bit verbose, but that's ok because we can hack on it, and make our own shortcuts

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 away as a custom keybinding. As with most things with vim, it's easy to do once you understand it. Creating a Macro One of the earliest things we all learn to do in vim is to create macros, custom sets of functionality stored in a register that can be replayed later. To create a macro, get into normal mode, then type followed by a letter

Live Substitution In Neovim

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 Vim-Unalphabet series on Youtuve and realized that his vim was doing this and I had to have it. https://twitter.com/_WaylonWalker/status/1346081617199198210 How to do it I had to do a bit of searching and found a great post from vimcasts that shows exactly how to get the live search and replace highlighting using :h inccommand Add this to you

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 errors with fairly little config. Generally, it sits nicely at the bottom of the screen and barely affects me. Other times, especially while zoomed way in during a presentation, it just gets in the way. location list eats the screen Location List eating up the screen while I am zoomed in and trying to live code Toggling the location list

Vim Notes

vim notes nvim lua norcalli/neovim-plugin nvim lsp python-lsp/python-lsp-server Using c to change text I have gone quite awhile without using and instead using . The reason that I started using is because it automatically places you into insert mode. This not only saves me one keystroke for commands such as is now , but it also works with the repeat command!!! This is huge. When refactoring a document I had been creating a macro to change one word to another, using instead of a