tooling.adoc

Tooling

A list of things to remember about my tools.

vim

Delete all buffers but current one

%bd|e#|bd#

Filter elements in quickfix list

(auto completion works)

:packadd cfilter
:Cfilter /pattern/

Keep the ones that do not match the pattern

:Cfilter! /pattern/

Run all commands contained in file

vim -s file

Run asciidoctor after saving the buffer (or any shell command)

autocmd BufWritePost <file> silent! !asciidoctor %

Format current file with prettier

%!bun x prettier --stdin-filepath file.<extension>

Format current file with prettier (if file is on disk)

!bun x prettier -w '%'

Delete the blank, even lines

:g/^/ if line('.') % 2 == 0 | d | endif

vim motions

• R

• g_

• } jump to the next paragraph

Insert mode

• Ctrl + h - delete the character before the cursor during insert mode

• Ctrl + w - delete word before the cursor during insert mode

• Ctrl + j - add a line break at the cursor position during insert mode

Registers

• "/p paste last search

• "%p paste file name

nvim

• Smart usage of the ]<letter> motion + some plugins (e.g. ]q)

• :w ++p: creates parent directory if does not exist (:h ++p)

• use nvim -d file1 file2 …​ to open neovim in diff mode

• gqq (kinda?) undo J

• :center center lines between 0 and textwidth

• :h auto-format

• %s//\=@a/ search the last \*-ed string and replace it with the content of the register a

  • https://stackoverflow.com/a/11797206/12453976

• https://rwx.gg/tools/editors/vim/vimrc

• https://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/chapters/44.html

• Delete all buffers except current one: %bd|e#|bd#

  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4545275/vim-close-all-buffers-but-this-one

tmux

• C-o: rotate panes

• o: move to pane

• (: move to previous session

• ): move to next session

• L: move to last session

• tmux attach-session -d: -d detached all other clients attached to this session. Useful when errors happen and you kill the terminal

• tmux attach-session -x: same as -d but additionally send SIGHUP to kill the parent process of the other client

• tmux new-session -A: makes new-session behave like attach-session, if the session name passed with -s already exists

• remain-on-exit: pane option, better set it when needed

• make 2>&1|tmux splitw -dI &: pipe makeÔÇÖs command stdout in a new split window in tmux

git

• Creating a branch from a stash

• Revert git add --intent-to-add: use git reset -- (was git reset --mixed)

• How to revert part of a commit (link got lost when converting)

• How to use --update-refs when rebasing

  Grep commit contents

  git log --pickaxe-regex -p --color-words -S "<grep-content>"

  List only files with conflicts

  git diff --name-only --diff-filter=U

  Split a commit in mulptiple commits

  https://stackoverflow.com/a/6217314/12453976

Git town

Best use of Git town is:

• town append when creating new branches

• town switch for visualizing stacked branches and easily switching among them

• town rename-branch

Git jump

Open $VISUAL (I think) with the diff loaded in the quickfixlist. Useful for reviews

git jump diff origin/main

Or, run from vim

:cexpr system("git jump --stdout diff origin/main")

latex

Use tectonic ensuring the correct biber/biblatex version

tectonic -Z search-path=$(dirname $(kpsewhich biblatex.sty)) report.tex

zsh

• fc open an editor and edit your last command

• r foo=bar run the previous command replacing foo with bar

• :t modifier in folders to show only the last folder in the path

• :u modifier that transforms to uppercase

• :l modifier that transforms to lowercase

• :s/find/replace modifier that replaces ÔÇ£findÔÇØ with ÔÇ£replaceÔÇØ

pandoc

Convert markdown to txt files

pandoc -f markdown -t plain file.md -o file.txt

shell

How to prompt the user for multiple selections

In bash, the select bultin shall be used. For instance:

select FILE in *; do echo $FILE $REPLY; break; done

Will show a numbered list of all the items inside the current working directory and display the PS3 prompt for choosing one element.

Read more in the docs.

python

Minimal HTTP server

python3 -m http.server 8080 --bind 127.0.0.1 --directory ./

asciidoc

Link a file to another

# OK
link:file.txt[text]
link:file.txt[]

# does NOT work
link:file.txt