dotfiles VS miscellany

BTW the widget I'm using is part of this github repo.

yeah i found what i believe to be the source through tineye, but it's always nice to be future-proof

Story time: I really love Neovim for programming, but one thing I love it even more for is scientific writing. Tools like texlab make this especially fun! But for a well-rounded experience, I need a few more things: (i) Grammar checking. For that I can recommend ltex, an LSP-server which adds LaTeX support to language tool. (ii) Thesaurus lookup. (Neo)vims integrated thesaurus format is a little bit limited. But thankfully 'thesaurusfunc' exists so I could easily write a small plugin to add support for openoffice.org mythes thesauri. (iii) Machine translation. Now we're finally getting to the topic of this post. I write most of my stuff in English but I'm not a native speaker, so machine translation is valuable for me. It can help me to overcome writers block to an extent, for example. There already exist a few plugins for that problem, like vim-translator or translate.nvim. But none of these support interactive modes, a slick UI, and, as far as I know, useful things like motions and counts. This is where my plugin pantran.nvim comes into place! The demo should speak for itself. In the end it was a lot more effort than I anticipated but I'm very pleased with the result. I hope this can be useful to others as well!

Building an interpreter command was actually pretty easy and can be done in one line, but I also like my interpreters to provide an interactive repl and building that was an extremely frankenstein-ish hack job. Anyway, I figured others might also be interested in this so I uploaded it here. The script requires bash.

Using the LSP omnifunc with the builtin completion framework of Neovim (e.g. setting omnifunc to 'v:lua.vim.lsp.omnifunc') is sufficient for most of my needs. The only problem I had was that I also wanted to complete snippets. Luckily, besides omnifunc (triggered with i_CTRL-X_CTRL-O), a user-defined completion function can also be specified with completefunc (triggered with i_CTRL-X_CTRL-U). Because of this I wrote snipcomp.lua, which implements 'omnifunc' compatible LuaSnip completion. Now, I can complete snippets alongside LSP stuff and all other builtin completion sources.

I hope this is the right place to post this.. Personally I really like weechat, but since the configuration files are not meant to be edited by humans and contain sensitive information it is really hard to share my weechat rice in a dotfiles repository. That's why I created confload, a plugin which reads a configuration file with weechat commands. There exist similar solutions like inwee or autoconf, but confload provides more advanced functionality by making use of a macro processor, which makes it possible to use stuff like comments and well.. macros. Confload provides a special macro to obtain secrets like passwords from a password manager to eliminate any sensitive information from the config file. Since I created this for my needs, right now only KeepassXC is supported, but the script can be easily adapted for other password managers. Maybe someone else also has a usecase for this!

Clone my repo to ~/.conky directory: git clone https://github.com/pagankeymaster/miscellany.git ~HOME/.conky/miscellany