Using Vim As Your Shell Command-Line Scratch

• neovim

  1,384 76,465 10.0 Vim Script

  Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

  

If you are not familiar with vim, I suggest you start playing with the vimtutor first. I’ll try my best to explain each keys that I have pressed. In this blog, I’m using Neovim, but you can still follow along even if you’re using Vim. I have aliased my nvim to vim with alias vim=nvim. Please follow along with the demonstrations, so you can get used to this workflow.

• jq

  306 25,063 0.0 C

  Discontinued Command-line JSON processor [Moved to: https://github.com/jqlang/jq] (by stedolan)

  

This is a JSON file with a content that is not properly formatted. We also want to remove some noise, we only want the id, and the name properties of the characters. We can do this by using the jq command. We can also use any vim plugins like prettier for different file types.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• Vim

  424 34,912 9.9 Vim Script

  The official Vim repository

  

If you are not familiar with vim, I suggest you start playing with the vimtutor first. I’ll try my best to explain each keys that I have pressed. In this blog, I’m using Neovim, but you can still follow along even if you’re using Vim. I have aliased my nvim to vim with alias vim=nvim. Please follow along with the demonstrations, so you can get used to this workflow.

• language-server-protocol

  121 10,675 8.7 HTML

  Defines a common protocol for language servers.

  

We can improve our workflow by adding intellisense using the Language Server Protocol (LSP). LSP is a protocol that can help provide some auto completion, quick documentation, go to definition, and many other features. You can use any LSP provider, at the time of this writing, I’m using coc.nvim for my LSP.

• vim-surround

  83 13,035 0.0 Vim Script

  surround.vim: Delete/change/add parentheses/quotes/XML-tags/much more with ease

I have navigated to the text to replace the surrounding quotes, then used tpope/vim-surround plugin.

• coc-ccls

  53 25 10.0 TypeScript

  CCLS (C/C++) extension for coc.nvim

We can improve our workflow by adding intellisense using the Language Server Protocol (LSP). LSP is a protocol that can help provide some auto completion, quick documentation, go to definition, and many other features. You can use any LSP provider, at the time of this writing, I’m using coc.nvim for my LSP.

• jo

  15 4,579 4.3 C

  JSON output from a shell

APIs mostly use JSON as their payload. We can easily create them using jo. We can read the command output and put it to your current buffer. For example, we want to create a JSON object with a lower case uuid value for its id property, and a simple name.

• InfluxDB

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• dotfiles

  1 1 7.9 Shell

  My personal dotfiles (by zaerald)

You can check my dotfiles in github.com/zaerald/dotfiles. Please note that my dotfiles continues to evolve, and there’s a higher chance that it is different now compared at the time of this writing.

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