on the subject of notetaking in vim. you can get pretty far if you mess around with the `path` and `iskeyword` options.

Something like this:

```
set path=.,,**
set iskeyword+=/,.,-

nnoremap gl <cmd>exe 'find' expand('<cword>')<cr>
```

if your filepath is unique enough you can have a wiki-style link working. For example

[[261042-fix-thing.md]]

if you press `gl` in the middle of that "link" the expand() function should be able to pick up everything inside the brackets and provide it to the `find` command.

now, i believe `iskeyword` does influence a fair amount of things so don't do it like that. if you mess with it, do it inside a function where you can modify and restore the original value.

#vim #neovim

Blog post about a #noai port of #vim.
I wish more things today would move like this:
"I plan to use this for a little while, look for sore points and rough edges, collect feedback from other users, and then tag a little release soon. Going forward, maintenance will be slow and quiet. "

https://drewdevault.com/2026/03/25/2026-03-25-Forking-vim.html

Drew DeVault writes about the Vim situation re: AI slop infection, and he decided to make a long-term maintenance fork of Vim 8.x which is a very welcome alternative to any faster-moving forks that should appear.

As always, he also found the right words for the situation in general: https://drewdevault.com/2026/03/25/2026-03-25-Forking-vim.html

#vim #foss #floss #noai #antiai

A eulogy for Vim @ddevault
https://drewdevault.com/2026/03/25/2026-03-25-Forking-vim.html

“I don’t think it’s cute that someone vibe coded “battleship” in VimScript. I think it’s more important that we stop collectively pretending that we don’t understand how awful all of this is. I don’t want to use software which has slop in it.”

“In short, I invite you to use Vim Classic, if you feel the same way as me, and to maintain it with me, contributing the patches you need to support your own use cases.”

#Vim

«a eulogy for vim» by drew devault and long live vim classic? a quiet yet deeply touching not-exactly-announce. read it, please, if you care about #vim and have a strong opinion about #llm-based coding «helpers» and introduction of llm-generated / llm-reviewed code in free software:

https://drewdevault.com/2026/03/25/2026-03-25-Forking-vim.html

#TIL vimv: bulk renaming of files, with a vim interface...

Rarely a tool jumps from "unknown", to "I will use it intensively as of right now immidiately without restriction"

#linux #toolbelt #vim #vimv #rename

To test it with nix package manager: nix-shell -p vimv
(In nixpkgs, there is also vimv-rs, in rust, I don't know if it is a different app)