Posts tagged: vim

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 my phone for the past few days and make Posts tagged: shots posts, but I want to date them to about when the image was taken most of the time. This allows me to quickly bump days up and down using c-a and c-x even around the new year.

Sound on, listen to those new switches.

Vim :noa is a command that runs what you call without autocommands on. This is typically used when you have some BufWritePre commands for formatting, most auto formatters are implemented this way in vim. It can be super useful if you have something like a yaml/json file that you have crafted perfectly how you want it, maybe it has some source code for a small script or sql embeded and your formatter wants to turn it into one line. You could get a better formatter, but for these one off cases that aren’t a big bother to me I run :noa w.

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 with :.! filled out. This runs a shell command, i.e. date for this example.

It outputs the following

Fri Jan 31 08:46:11 PM CST 2025

You can also pass in a date such as tommorrow by pasdding in the -d date -d tomorrow.

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Here is a really good vim substitute with regex capture groups, saving this one for a rainy day.

* Reading 1: This is a title to a link * Reading 2: This is another title

:%s/\v(: )(.+)$/\1\[\2\]\(

Vim has a handy feature to format text with gq. You can use it in visual mode, give it a motion, or if you give it gqq it will format the current line. I use this quite often while writing in markdown, I do not use softwraps in vim, so gqq quickly formats my current line into a paragraph. Once I have done this for a single line one time I typically switch to the motion for around paragraph gqap to format the whole paragraph and not just the current line.

another great use and demo of the one eyed fighting kirby

![[None]]

Install it

{ "ThePrimeagen/harpoon", branch = "harpoon2", dependencies = { "nvim-lua/plenary.nvim" }, config = function() require("waylonwalker.plugins.harpoon").setup() end, },

harpoon config

I found this statement quite intriguing.

multi-cursors are just macros.

This is quite a philisophical video and mostly prime talking about the things that make vim vim, and what prime needs in and editor vs what he can live without.

I’ve heard prime say just give it the one eyed fighting kirby so many times, and execute it few times, and there is no way to find it online, so this will be the link that I will come to, when I need to remember what @theprimeagen means when he says Give it the one eyed fighting kirby.

:s/\(.*\);/console.log(\1)

So what is this? #

This is a vim substitute comand to replace text in the buffer. the one eyed fighting kirby is a regex capture group to capture everything between matches, and assign it a value to place back in after the match.

substitute in a nutshell, :s/<what you want to replace>/<what you want to replace with>

Here is a contrived example of text.

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So after months of fighting with gf not going to template files, I finally decided to put in some effort to make it work.

This was the dumbest keybind in my config, that I copied from someone else without understanding it.

I have jinja templates in a directory called templates. I want to bind gf to open a template file, but it is trying to open a new file ./base.html

{% extends "base.html" %} {% if request.state.user %} {% block title %}Fokais - {{ request.state.user.full_name }} {% endblock %} {% else %} {% block title %}Fokais {% endblock %} {% endif %} {% block content %} {% if request.state.user %} <h1 id="title" class="inline-block mx-auto text-5xl font-black leading-loose text-transparent bg-clip-text bg-gradient-to-r from-red-600 via-pink-500 to-yellow-400 ring-red-500 text-shadow-xl text-shadow-zinc-950 ring-5"> {{ request.state.user.full_name }} </h1> {% endif %} {% include "me_partial.html" %} {% endblock %}

What did not work #

I tried all sorts of changes to my path, but it still didn’t work.

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Clear out lsp diagnostics in nvim.

I need to learn regex capture groups better. This is so dang powerful. I really like the \v that bob uses here, it really does cut down on the terseness of all the special characters.

I wanted to replace all occurrences of:

name,[email protected],0,171,,2023-09-21

With:

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neovim stopped formatting on save for me awhile ago and I have just been dealing with it. looks like there may have been an api change, idk.

I had to make this update.4

Lately in 2023 I have been leaning on lazyvim for my new setups where I am not necessarily ready to drop my full config. It’s been pretty solid, and comes with a very nice setup out of the box, the docs are pretty fantastic as well.