Vim on passthejoe

Friction in the Hugo composition process — Part 1

Sat, 22 Apr 2023 00:11:00 -0800

I would write more, I say, if it was easier to start, write and publish a blog entry.

I have a Bash script that allows me to easily write and publish microblog-style entries. Maybe I should come up with something similar for Hugo. It’s been on my to-do list.

I can write tweets quickly. But a Hugo blog entry is a different thing.

There’s a bunch of metadata at the top of the post. You need a title, time and date, author name and Twitter handle field. I guess I can forget about that last one in the Elon era. And then there are tags. And I can choose, post by post, whether to show the full post in the index, or not. There’s an optional description that makes the blog listing pages look much better. You have to come up with a file name.

Vim tip: Open the last file you closed with :e#

Fri, 13 Nov 2020 05:03:49 -0800

I can’t believe I didn’t learn this earlier because now I do it all the time:

If you close a file, as I often do with :bd, to open the last file you closed, type e# in command mode:

:e#

The last closed file opens in your current window.

This is great for me because in my editing workflow, I have a story budget from one directory in one window, and I work on stories from a different directory in another. So my working directory is the story directory, and I would have to change it to reopen my budget file, which I often close when moving from one computer to another to do a Google Meet (aka Google Zoom) chat and not be too loud for everybody else in the house. (It’s 2020, and we’re quarantining.)

C++ in Vim with two lines in .vimrc

Sat, 23 May 2020 16:55:32 -0700

With inspiration and code from Ankit, I am using Vim to compile and run C++ programs without leaving the editor.

I added these two lines to my .vimrc:

nnoremap <F7> :!g++ -o %:r %<Enter>
nnoremap <F8> :!./%:r<Enter>

I hit F7 to compile the program I’m working on.

F8 runs that program.

This is much simpler than an IDE, and simpler still than Geany, which is pretty simple already.

These lines could be modified to compile and run a Java program, or to just run your code in scripting languages like Ruby, Perl and Python.