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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Show threadHyde 📷 🖋 

@Larvitz nice article.

Maybe @ctietze you can learn some stuff :)

Also I love gqap on a paragraph.

I wrote a couple of things about vim / neovim here

https://lazybea.rs/tags/vim

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Show threadChristian TietzeMar 1

@hyde @Larvitz thank you for thinking of me! the 'V' copy paste I accidentally figured out by being just as annoyed, can relate to the experience :D

In insert mode I still habitually press Ctrl-k to kill a line, so now I'm discovering the digraph entry. Very nice, too!

Show threadHyde 📷 🖋 Mar 1
@ctietze @Larvitz digraphs are cool, but I now I use ctrl-shift-u with kitty that allows me to search them easily.
Show threadChristian TietzeMar 1
@hyde I need something that works everywhere where vim keys exist :)