Larvitz  Feb 27

New post: Neovim Crash Course for Sysadmins

Not a beginner's guide. This covers the things you still get wrong after years of Vim - efficient navigation, why your paste lands in the wrong place (and the one-key fix), YAML indentation workflows, quick macros, and what Neovim's LSP actually gives you for infrastructure work.

Written for people who edit configs and playbooks all day.

https://blog.hofstede.it/neovim-crash-course-for-sysadmins-the-20-that-solve-80-of-the-pain/

#neovim #vim #sysadmin #devops #linux #ansible #yaml

Neovim Crash Course for Sysadmins: The 20% That Solve 80% of the Pain

Not another hjkl tutorial. This is the stuff you still get wrong after years of using Vim - efficient navigation, copy/paste that actually works, YAML-specific workflows, and the motions that turn ...

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@Larvitz is that image AI-generated? The line numbers don’t align with the actual lines.

(And more: the file is yaml but the filename is config.lua; and the statusline reports a different line number to what’s actually visible in the buffer.)

A real screenshot would at least look actually competent.

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@benjamineskola Yeah, that image was AI generated. had not put much thought into it.

I replaced it with a screenshot now.

Feb 27 at 3:47pmWeb