VIM shortcuts

Some shortcuts I look up once in every month:

• gd - jump to variable declaration
• % - jump to the matching brace, or #if to #endif
• [{ - jump to start or end of function
• dt" - delete till character “
• ^R ^W - word under cursor into cmdline
• zm - fold more
• zr - fold reduce
• zR - open all
• q - quote(?) record a macro to a given register, replay with @

Mnemonics:

• forward/backward
• up/down
• beginning/word

Never set $TERM

Why? Just don't. Leave it up to the terminal emulator.

My case against Visual Studio Code

I want to understand the tools I use. Why am I getting this warning for line 5? How can I add a new rule to my linter? How can I further automate this build step?

I want to use only what I really need. See minimalism. Before that, I need to know what I need. So always try IDEs and look for inspiration.

I'd rather stick with vendor neutral tools. Also I'd rather work on IDE independent software projects.

Other thoughts on IDEs

• Most of the stuff is done by language servers.
• Autocomplete is not the primary feature of an IDE. It's the automations.
• vscode is at 75% market share in 2022. Impressive.

My .vimrc

Try to live without plugins. My essentials:

• base16-colors
• lsp
• slime - send cells to ipython
• buftabline - I don't use tablines so let's just display the buffers there.
  Updated 12 April 2023