dotfiles VS gitsigns.nvim

find-invalid-utf8: walks a directory tree and prints invalid UTF-8 in files using nice hex escapes with coloring. This is useful for honing on in where invalid UTF-8 occur. You have a good bet of finding some by checking out any moderately sized repository of code. The Linux kernel used to have some. The Mozilla repo does. The CPython repo does too. This is why it's important for CLI tools to deal with invalid UTF-8 gracefully in some way.

Yeah it's great! I used it to implement a little utility to convert a subset of SMS/MMS messages from an XML backup to a more readable plain text version: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/0b075d79a6ff8812a1f48a37b9858938b3eadc58/bin/rust/searchsms/main.rs

My dotfiles: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles

Here are some selected scripts folks might find interesting.

Here's my backup script that I use to encrypt my data at rest before shipping it off to s3. Runs every night and is idempotent. I use s3 lifecycle rules to keep data around for 6 months after it's deleted. That way, if my script goofs, I can recover: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/2f58eedf3b7f7dae...

I have so many machines running Archlinux that I wrote my own little helper for installing Arch that configures the machine in the way I expect: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/2f58eedf3b7f7dae...

A tiny little script to recover the git commit message you spent 10 minutes writing, but "lost" because something caused the actual commit to fail (like a gpg error): https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/2f58eedf3b7f7dae...

A script that produces a GitHub permalink from just a file path and some optional file numbers. Pass --clip to put it on your clipboard: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/2f58eedf3b7f7dae... --- I use it with this vimscript function to quickly generate permalinks from my editor: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/2f58eedf3b7f7dae...

A wrapper around 'gh' (previously: 'hub') that lets you run 'hub-rollup pr-number' and it will automatically rebase that PR into your current branch. This is useful for creating one big "rollup" branch of a bunch of PRs. It is idempotent. https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/2f58eedf3b7f7dae...

Scale a video without having to memorize ffmpeg's crazy CLI syntax: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/2f58eedf3b7f7dae...

Under X11, copy something to your clipboard using the best tool available: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/2f58eedf3b7f7dae...

Otherwise, the most common "breakage" I get is when I forget to update in a while. Used to be a mostly non-issue until package signing became a thing. Now I get lots of signing errors when I update. When that happens, I run this script and it usually fixes things: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/2f58eedf3b7f7dae7f0a7cea1a641459e25e5d07/bin/pacman-fix-keys

Sadly, at work, I can't use my own bespoke setup any more. I'm effectively forced to use GNOME, which has the same braindead support for multiple monitors that KDE has. These days, I just gave up on multiple monitors and work on my laptop in my sunroom at home. Back when I was in the office and using multiple monitors, it pretty much sucked, but I did write a little script that lets me at least move focus between monitors using my keyboard while respecting the window stacking order. I had intended to expand it with more stuff, but then COVID hit, my sunroom became my work environment and multiple monitors became a luxury I didn't care about any more. For work, anyway.

The zsh builtin with a custom TIMEFMT: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/965383e6eeb0bad4...

That's what I used to do, but I switched to Josh's strategy a couple years ago.[1] It doesn't "blow up" git-status. If some new piece of software creates a new directory with a bunch of random stuff in it, git-status will just show you the directory since it is is untracked, and not everything in it.

[1]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/965383e6eeb0bad4...

But I did that enough that I've scripted most of it: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/caed7921e48d112cc8932b33b81013fcbbcb2e08/bin/arch-install

For docs and license, see: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/tree/master/.doc

This is why I kept mine private for so many years too. A bit ago, I cleaned house and published them: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles

If you don't like distro's and want to use something of your own, make sure that you have a few plugins like telescope.nvim, lazy.nvim, toggleterm.nvim Or vim-floaterm, gitsigns.nvim, which-key.nvim, which will make your neovim journey smooth. Again these are just few, but I highly recommend it.

I use https://github.com/lewis6991/gitsigns.nvim, which seems to be the most popular option for Neovim.

You can indeed. I do it using gitsigns.

Maybe try gitsigns.nvim and lazygit with toggleterm.nvim.

gitsigns (to replace vim-gitgutter)

I've been wanting to highlight the file path in my custom statusline so that everything up to the current repo root was dimmed, the root dir was vibrant, and everything after the root was plain. I decided to try using vim.fs and I found a fairly short and simple way to do it. I'm sure there are better ways, but this is what I've got so far. It depends upon [gitsigns.nvim(https://github.com/lewis6991/gitsigns.nvim).

assuming the file is in a git repository, https://github.com/lewis6991/gitsigns.nvim works

gitsigns.nvim for signs.

I have no affiliations, but I think teal would be a great such language. It feels very much like "what TS is to JS" in that it's syntax is (I believe) a superset of lua, and it is possible to require teal files in lua files by first requiring the teal compiler (a one line change). In fact, there's already a neovim plugin that I use everyday written in teal! Teal also has the concept of declaration files (like `.d.ts` in TS or `.pyi` in python), and it has [declaration files for neovim files](https://github.com/teal-language/teal-types/tree/master/types/neovim) already. However, its LSP is very, very young.

The other plugin I use is gitsigns which indicates in the gutter which lines have changed or been added.