vCoolor.vim VS neovim

Not for GVim, which could call native GUI widgets. I found this old-ish plugin that actually can call color pickers form terminal by invoking them in command line. A little hacky, but works. https://github.com/KabbAmine/vCoolor.vim/

I used to use this other color picker plugin back in the day before I pruned a bunch of plugins: https://github.com/KabbAmine/vCoolor.vim

An awesome related plugin is vCoolor which lets you pop up a GUI color picker for the color under the cursor.

I like yad[0] for this. For example, I use it to present a GUI color picker to change/insert colors in Vim (via a plugin called vCoolor[1]). I also use it in some i3/sway scripts that need user input or to show a progress bar.

[0]: https://github.com/v1cont/yad

[1]: https://github.com/KabbAmine/vCoolor.vim

And as bonus, I use this https://github.com/KabbAmine/vCoolor.vim to trigger external color code picker when (tbh rarely) I need that.

I used this, https://github.com/KabbAmine/vCoolor.vim

Checkout the vCoolor.vim plugin. It allows you to insert a new color or change existing colors in code. It opens a pop-up window (outside of the TUI) were you can see the chosen color room and select a color as you are probably used to.

As a software engineer, choosing and understanding your text editor is important part of your work, as it impacts your productivity and workflow efficiency. It's like choosing the perfect tool for any trade - you need to know what tool to use and how to use it effectively if you want to excel. For me, I use Neovim as my editor and I have been using it for a little over a year now.

This got me thinking about my recent pivot, my switch to Neovim by way of LazyVim to write most of my code, and using tmux to keep terminal states alive after closing a session.

Neovim: Make sure you have Neovim installed on your system. You can check the official website for installation instructions: https://neovim.io/ Git: We'll be using Git to clone the LazyVim starter pack. If you don't have Git, you can download it from https://git-scm.com/downloads

There are several ways to install Neovim. This wiki provides several guidelines on how to install Neovim.

All these thoughts I've shared, I would have them on occasion - but ever since I switched to Linux and Neovim, my curiosity has been through the roof. Switching over to Neovim and Linux was a not so fun weekend of configuration and spending half a day getting my work's local dev environment running on my new OS (which no one has tested development on). But I now have a deeper understanding of the tools I use, and have a text editor configured to be the most optimal for the way I want to use it.