vim-be-good
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vim-be-good
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Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
Sure! The first thing I did was follow this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7i4amO_zaE
This is ThePrimeagen's 0 to LSP, Neovim RC from Scratch. In this video he performs a clean installation of Neovim and goes step by step adding the things he considers essential. This was very important for me to acquaint myself with how things work, how to install plugins, how to define custom key maps. I remember the first times I tried using Vim, I couldn't figure out how to get Nerdtree to work. This video made me realize I just lacked the knowledge of how Vim config works.
This video was such a good start because It provided me with the tools to continue my exploration of Vim autonomously. In a week I was already able to install new plugins and tweak them using Lua config files the way I specifically wanted. It's such a cool experience!
Keep in mind that both the author of this video and I use Neovim, which is a fork of Vim. As a text editor they both function essentially the same. The difference lies on the config files and in broader UI capabilities by Neovim. While Vim uses Vimscript, Neovim prefers Lua, although Neovim is fully backwards compatible, so you can choose to use Vimscript for your configuration if you want as well. This also means that Vim plugins just work with Neovim!
The docs are also a huge source of knowledge for me. In the beginning I resorted to :help key-codes a lot when defining key mappings.
To learn the Vim motions, which is the most challenging part of using Vim, I suggest you find a cheatsheet online and refer to it all the time. One very cool plugin that will help you get comfortable with Vim motions is ThePrimeagen's VimBeGod: https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/vim-be-good. It's a set of game-like exercises to practice the motions. This is also pretty cool and helped a lot: https://vimsnake.com/. It's a classic snake game where instead of using arrow keys, you use HJKL. And speaking of arrow keys, one thing I did very early on was disabling them (or, in reality, remapping them to noop) in normal mode so I was forced to move around the text using Vim Motions.
At first you will get frustrated because your brain will need some time to rewire in a way to absorb all the new abstractions Vim presents. It's a whole new logic of editing text. The most important thing is to stick to it and you will be surprised with how fast you end up picking things up. Of course, don't expect to be crazy fast in a few weeks. But right now, after a little over a month, I no longer feel that discomfort using Vim anymore. I suppose I'd still be faster on VS Code, but I really want to master Vim, so I'm sticking with it and I feel a constant improvement.
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Ask HN: How do I code offline for a week?
If you're not familiar with Vim, I'd encourage you to download a few Vim cheatsheets, the VimBeGood extension[1] and practice navigating code in Vim.
[1] https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/vim-be-good
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Practicing VIM
For Neovim, then this Hardtime plugin will help you change the habit, and this vim-be-good from Primeagen helps learn vim motion. TJ DeVries is also a good source to learn.
- Resources for mastering vim motions
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Vim for The VS Code User: Part 1 - Initial Setup
A game for learning vim, in vim: https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/vim-be-good
- recommendation on vimgolf challenges
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Please help a noob.
I'm trying to NeoVim (and vi) in general having never used it. I decided to start with VimBeGood but I can't get it to launch a game. I've gotten the plugin installed but when I run :VimBeGood it just shows the screen saying "to play a game delete that line." I deleted words and noob but after that I'm lost. Nothing happens. What did I do wrong?
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Question regarding vertical movement
I recommend vim-be-good for practicing this
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Whats the next step?
There are plugins like https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/vim-be-good that can help with practice.
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Atom has been archived
I found https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/vim-be-good to be kind of a nice way to build some muscle memory for vim.
cuetorials.com
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HCL: Toolkit for Structured Configuration Languages
I have a website I maintain, many people tell me it has helped them
https://cuetorials.com
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Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
CUE(lang), because devops & yaml engineering has gotten out of hand
I maintain https://cuetorials.com and am heading up the CUE sig-infra group for the time being
- That's a Lot of YAML
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Ask HN: Who needs vendors, and vendors, who needs customers?
If you need help with CUE(lang), we maintain https://cuetorials.com and have experience helping others adopt it at their companies
email is in my HN profile, same handle on GitHub and X
- Learn you some CUE for a great good
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Ask HN: Which Python or Rust-based static site generators to use as of 2023?
If you are more focused on the devops part, and not implementing a static site generator, then go with Python. For our static sites we use Hugo + GH Actions + Kubernetes (since we have a cluster anyway). There is not really any code involved here (example: https://github.com/hofstadter-io/cuetorials.com)
I'm personally interested to try https://docs.dagger.io/sdk/python/ for something. I used the CUE sdk, but it is effectively deprecated at this point. I use a mix of base, make, python, and CUE fro most devops / devex stuff now. Dagger makes it so local & CI stuff runs the same.
- Cue Wins
- Ask HN: Do you have something you continually work on for years?
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Ask HN: How to find the right tech angel investor for new programming platform?
yup, I'm betting the proverbial ranch on CUE :]
I also maintain https://cuetorials.com
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hof: The High Code Framework (low-code for devs), a flexible data modeling & code generation system
I also maintain https://cuetorials.com, bet the farm on CUE or something like that :]
What are some alternatives?
10-minute-vim-exercises - The exercise files from 10 Minute Vim, for convenience of readers
vector - A high-performance observability data pipeline.
which-key.nvim - 💥 Create key bindings that stick. WhichKey is a lua plugin for Neovim 0.5 that displays a popup with possible keybindings of the command you started typing.
juicefs - JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3.
vim-sneak - The missing motion for Vim :athletic_shoe:
cue - The home of the CUE language! Validate and define text-based and dynamic configuration
vim-surround - surround.vim: Delete/change/add parentheses/quotes/XML-tags/much more with ease
cue - CUE has moved to https://github.com/cue-lang/cue
nvim-tree.lua - A file explorer tree for neovim written in lua
hof - Framework that joins data models, schemas, code generation, and a task engine. Language and technology agnostic.
tree-sitter - An incremental parsing system for programming tools
VuePress - 📝 Minimalistic Vue-powered static site generator