VimWiki: I write my notes in the terminal, like a monster

https://tinkerbetter.tube/videos/watch/2ac996b2-39eb-4208-92ef-3ea4815157cd

TIL why ~ is your home directory in #Unix and why HJKL is navigation in #vim. Thanks to @leyrer at #clt2025!

Picture from
https://vintagecomputer.ca/lear-siegler-adm-3a-terminal/

I was looking for new keycaps when I came across this monstrosity

TIL, in #vim (or #neovim) you can indent the current line *while in insert mode* with Ctrl-T and dedent it with Ctrl-D.

I've used Vim for decades and have always switched to Normal mode and used << and >>. This is so much better!

:help ins-special-keys is full of gems. #VimTip

Vim After Bram: A Core Maintainer on How They’ve Kept It Going Vim After Bram: A Core Maintainer on How They’ve Kept It Going: What happens when the chief maintainer of an open source project dies. Maintaining VIM turned out to be a full time job, though the community has stepped in to help. https://thenewstack.io/vim-after-bram-a-core-maintainer-on-how-theyve-kept-it-going/

In the age of GenAI and privacy abuse, open-source software and everyone who is contributing to building, maintaining, and supporting FLOSS are real heroes. Today, I thank all of them on this #ilovefs day.

I appreciate keeping software free so everyone can afford and use it. I love #Vim, #Linux, and #FreeBSD very much.

Thank you.

PS: Please share your gratitude with the #ilovefs tag.

With all the installations on #GNU/#Linux (servers, vms, desktop, ... ), #BSD and #Unix systems, #MacOS, #Microsoft #Windows and WLS) I feel comfortable to claim there or way more than 1 billion installations of Vi*; often without people knowing about it.

Thank you Bram Moolenaar, Christian Brabandt, the whole #Vim community, and all the people from projects like #NeoVIM, #Nvi, #Busybox #Vi, who develop and maintain their #vim flavour.

https://k7r.eu/thank-you-for-the-editor-of-the-beast/ #ilovefs

People ask why I use Neovim.
It's because of amazing plugins like this

**typr**: Typing practice plugin for Neovim with dashboard.

Supports showing detailed stats & configuration!

GitHub: https://github.com/nvzone/typr

I went to Calm Coding at @varia and it was very cool! We listened to #cumbia, ate cookies and talked about #servers, #microblogging, #sftp, #texteditors, #obsidian, #emacs, #vim, #bash, #zotero, #mastodon, #bluesky, #wikimedia, #hibiscus, #markdown, #orgmode, #hugo, #knitting, #happenings, #websites, #rent and #bread. Admittedly there was some coding as well.
I felt very welcome and I think it's pretty dope that I already met real peoples through Mastodon! 8-)
Ty @bene & @ccl for organizing!

خب دوستان این هم از آموزش تنظیم و کانفیگ Neovim.

به عنوان اولین ویدیویی که بصورت عمومی منتشر کردم بنظرم خوب شد.

امیدوارم مفید باشه، اگر نظری، سوالی و پیشنهادی داشتین حتما بگین.

#vim #neovim #نئوویم

https://youtu.be/JJQK3Wux-As

Question for anyone who has moved from #vim to #neovim: why?

Serious question, I've never tried neovim but I'm increasingly running into references to it.

I've used 'vim' for over 20 years as my default and main editor of all things including code. What are the compelling reasons to go "neo" from your personal experience of making the transition?

Edit: bonus question: firing up nvim to edit a file feels just like using vim anyway, so it seems basically zero barrier to entry for basic vim functionality... so if one isn't already using a complex vim configuration the bonus question is: are there any downsides to neovim?

Reintro!

I'm Dylan, a #fullstack #webdev from the Midwest, US. I like working with #js and #svelte so much that I wrote a book about #sveltekit! I've also worked extensively with #php and #WordPress but try to avoid the latter if I can.

I spend my days in the terminals of various #Linux machines and tweaking my #Vim config. I automate my #homelab with #ansible. I write about web dev on my #blog.

I enjoy #pcgaming and will occasionally #shitpost and boost #memes so brace yourself.

Good evening, Fediverse! I've just migrated from tech.lgbt to my own self hosted GoToSocial instance and this feels like a great time to do an intro, because I also just turned 32 today!

I'm #trans and #queer site reliability engineer working for a gaming company in Amsterdam (Netherlands), and I enjoy hacking on #kubernetes projects in my spare time (I write a lot of #helm charts and #argocd apps). I've been in the hosting/platform/devops industry for around 13ish years and I'm still just as in love as I was before, though where I used to focus on Big Tech, I now focus on self-hosting k8s on metal. Ask me about self hosting whatever project you want, and I can probably point you in the right direction!

My main operating systems are MacOS and #Debian (love #linux dearly). I'm a #bash and #neovim user, but I cut my teeth on vi and later #vim and so those are still dear to my heart. I want to get more into #solarpunk projects in 2025 and I'm big on using #prometheus #homeassistant and #keda to accomplish those goals. I volunteer with #nextcloud when I can to help with their helm charts and I also have a GitHub org called small-hack where I do a lot of FOSS work. Always down to self host something new.

Ik spreek A1 Nederlands, maar ik wil A2 binnenkort. Oh, en mijn favoriet kleur is blauw. Leuk u te ontmoeten!

Hi folks. Please help get the word out!

https://lmno.lol, my blogging service, is now generally available. No invite needed!

No #tracking #ads #paywall or #bloat

#privacy first, read anywhere (even #terminal), #markdown, bring your own #editor

My blog https://lmno.lol/alvaro

I hope LMNO gets you blogging in 2025!

Please help me get the word out

I escaped vim
#vim #linux