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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…)

I've been using Vim emulators for a few years, but apparently that wasn't nerdy enough, so I recently made the switch to terminal Vim. Jumping into the world of Vim plugins was daunting, but one specifically has made it a lot easier. Enter fzf.vim by th... (more…)

phpcd.vim - phpcd - A Intelligent/Smart PHP Complete Daemon for Vim/NeoVim... (more…)

I spend at least 10 hours a day using vim. I’m not going to explain, here, why it’s such a good text editor. You can look it up. Today I’m going to describe a terrible thing that vim does in its default configuration. At the end, I’ll show you how to chan... (more…)