Vim templates or skeletons, allow you to specify a template to be used for new files with a certain extension. (more…)

When editing a file, it’s quite crucial that you can navigate your cursor around rather quickly. Vim and NeoVim allow for many different ways of doing so which, depending on the situation, can be more or less efficient and useful. This article examines th... (more…)

i3-vim-nav - Seamlessly navigate i3 windows and vim splits... (more…)

#vim tip of the day: You can literally travel back in time. To jump to the state a file had 10 minutes ago, use the following command: (more…)

XDG Base Directory specification, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME etc. Great thing - configs separated from user data and cache, no clutter in home directory. Unfortunately, many programs still don't respect it, including Vim. But what would be our favourite text editor... (more…)