#vim

Hyde 📷 🖋 :debian:hyde@lazybear.social
2026-02-04

@jorgee Thanks!

In the meantime next month, I would love to do the #Vim #carnival again, if you want to join 😉

lazybea.rs/carnivals

October was not great ...

graeme fawcettgraeme@tech.lgbt
2026-02-04

These guys 🧚‍♂️ are cool. They just 🧚 flit into existence when 🧚‍♂️ you need them 🧚‍♀️

#teachyourtoolstheirtools #introspectivebynaturenaughtybynurture #engineering #programming #weirdlyenough #vim

how do you create new data in your system?

File > New
<funny mac flower>+N
:n
<something that makes my hand hurt><ctrl-w><space>fnoh my goodness, look how cute that is with its witty bitty hint
Christian Tietzectietze
2026-02-04

Do I know evil-mode or users who use home row modifiers or otherwise don't use modifier keys on their keyboard?

I wonder how I should remap some things. Emacs's M-x for example was much nicer to type as the sequence ESC x -- before ESC was taken over by the vim key bindings for good reason.

Not sure about leader key, because for some Control-based shortcuts I would still need to hold the control home row key and would prefer not to. So who gets to be the leader key then :)

Steven G. Harmssgharms@techhub.social
2026-02-04

I’m moving to #neovim from #vim and have been surprised about the node_modules-ness of it all. To install telescope, it seems like I need 4-5 other plugins. Am I misreading? This seems like left-pad but make it editor. Am I doing it wrong?

Stephen Blumstephenblum
2026-02-04

Bat previews files fast; Vim edits them when you need changes.

Ukiah Danger SmithUkiahSmith
2026-02-03

@iamreinder @hyuchia so true. I've used for over 20 years now. I've tried a couple of times to test drive other editors and always come back to Vim (now )

The editor with vim mode that most surprised me is the vim mode commands cover a broad range, more than I expected.

ukiahsmith.com/blog/first-impr

2026-02-03

The veep plugin lets you pipe any visually selected content to an external command. This can be an existing external tool, or a script that you write for your own needs: github.com/robenkleene/veep.vim

#vim #neovim

Dawn Tåke 🌙 :sparkletrans:Tourma@tech.lgbt
2026-02-03

Did you hear that Notepad++ has apparantly been comprimized by state sponsored hackers?

arstechnica.com/security/2026/

So that's great.

I have it on my work computer to edit my personal website. Guess I'm switching to Vim. Hopefully it's not compromised.

#NotPadPlusPlus #hack #vim #ArsTechnica

Peter Binderuppbinderup
2026-02-03

I'm lookin for a EU based store where I can get a Cheat sheet mug.

2026-02-02

I’m curious: for cursor movement in vim do you prefer hjkl or arrow keys?

Let‘s do a poll.

Feel free to comment your reasons on why you prefer one over the other and boost to reach more people.

Edit: this is more evenly split than I expected.

#neovim #vim #linux

R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:rl_dane@polymaths.social
2026-02-02

You know what would be amazing?

Some kind of OS-level overlay that would let you use vi movement and editing keys in any program.

I'm talking about going beyond something like having custom QMK keystrokes to use hjlk as the arrow keys (which is super neat, to be clear). I'm talking about a little pop-up that lets you enter something like A and it hits the End key for you, or Rapple^[ and it types 'apple[del][del][del][del][del]`

Am I the only one that thinks reaching for those special keys on the keyboard is a total drag? Especially on laptops? XD

#vi #vim #nvim #NeoVim

Andrew Tropinabcdw@fosstodon.org
2026-02-02

@futurile @ekaitz_zarraga Exactly, Ilya removed clojure specific checks from conjure and just connected to Ares and it worked.

#vim #nrepl #nvim #guile

2026-01-31

Added experimental Vim/Helix modal editing to my notes app. It's basic but already handy, here's `goto_word` jumping to a word on Android. Curious if anyone else would use this?
#pkm #vim #helix #motions #indiedev #notes

🏳️‍🌈Trentskunk🏳️‍🌈:unverified:trentskunk@mstdn.social
2026-01-31

Someone actually asked so here's my take on the ancient holy war:

If you want a fast text editor with syntax highlighting that's good for fast editing and stuff like that, then #vim is probably for you.

If you want an integrated environment that you can customize and extend from the ground up to do almost anything you want and don't mind that you'll probably never learn all it does then #emacs is probably for you.

Neither is bad, they're just different tools for different purposes.

2026-01-31

I'm starting to use #Vim. Does Someone knows some tips or something like that?
(i don't know if i writed that correctly)

2026-01-31

My notes from January 2026: started a new job at Ghost, published a WebAssembly module, set every Vim configuration option, and applauded general strikes. evanhahn.com/notes-from-januar

#WebAssembly #vim #ghost #strikes #compression

2026-01-30
Today this is what I am choosing to be offended by. I feel that there ought to be rules. #vim
Screenshot of a terminal showing the sizes of the binaries of busybox and vim.tiny.  Busybox, a binary that implements all the vi anyone actually needs, is about half the size of vim.tiny.  The latter is 1.7 megabytes, a size that might seem large to someone who has definitely lived the majority of their life already.
2026-01-30

Dừng biến Vim thành IDE cồng kềnh, bạn đang làm sai mục đích! Vim/Neovim đẹp ở sự tối giản—chỉ bạn và code. Nếu cần "gói đầy đủ", hãy dùng IDE. #Vim #Neovim #Lập_trình #Phát_triển_mã #Simplicity #Programming

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