Neovim Power Tips: Volume 2

[@m47h4r]

These two videos were really useful. Well done.

[@jotarokujo6099]

I was constantly annoyed by #2. Didn't know there was a difference in p and P in visual mode. Very helpful!

[@benfrainuk]

Excellent! 👍

[@kostasmoschos1552]

It doesn't work in vim 8.1

[@samcassidy2441]

Love the tip on combining macros with the g command! My solution would have been to include navigating to the next instance of background (using /) as part of the macro, but this is a nice alternative that's potentially more flexible

[@PragandSens]

thanks Hank from Breaking Bad

[@benfrainuk]

Lmao!

[@tandlose]

good video, would be nice with a thorough walkthrough of the command line in neovim. There are many videos explaining the basics of neovim with hjkl etc but few that explains the command line like norm etc

[@benfrainuk]

That’s a good idea. Will try and do a video on that soon. 👍

[@robwells3713]

Very helpful video. `norm` was a revelation!

[@phaberest_]

Good content! I'm still grasping quite a few

[@mintcar]

I think your theming and colours look really nice.

[@visionary_3_d]

Love your videos. Keep up the good work 🔥

[@aaronmcadam]

Thanks for this, really enjoyed it. And I think you're more of a Bruce Willis, personally 🤣

[@benfrainuk]

Ha. I’ll take that. Yippee Ki-yay …

[@sp3ctum]

@@benfrainuk a great username would be "Bruce Vimis". Okay, maybe not that great. 😄

[@craigdanielmaceacher]

using vim-unimpaired makes pasting above and below easier with [p and ]p plus it has other variants to indent as well as paste so you can do >]p

[@benfrainuk]

I’ve actually taken to using mini-bracketed for this thanks to your suggestion. It’s a nice way to think about the above and below, thanks 🙏

[@WillEhrendreich]

Awesome stuff thanks!

[@pwnwriter]

map j -> jzz k -> kzz

[@gplusplus314]

Thanks for another great video! Hey just FYI, your audio has a lot of unintended bass. It’s making my subwoofers shake the house, usually whenever you type. Think “Jurassic Park” when the cup of water is rippling each time the T-Rex 🦖 takes a step. Solution: do a low-cut (or high pass) at 120 hz or higher. Pretty much any video or audio editing tool can do this. 😉

[@benfrainuk]

Thanks, I’ll take a look for the next one. I was told by someone into audio that at the end of my edit to slap a compressor filter onto the audio. That definitely boosts everything but maybe at the expense of being too much! Will try the next one without that.

[@gplusplus314]

@@benfrainuk The compression sounds good! You just need to do a low-cut *after* the compressor. So basically just chop out anything below 120 hz or so. Play with that number until you’re happy with the result, basically. Some compressors have a built-in way of doing this, but the mental model should be “compress first, then cut out the bad frequencies after.” “Shake the house” bass starts at about 80 hz, to give you an idea. “Shake the entire Earth” happens at 30 hz or so, which is a hell of a surprise when waking up with my morning coffee. Haha! 🦖 ☕️

[@benfrainuk]

@@gplusplus314 ok great 🤣 sorry about that, I’ll give the low cut a go next time 👍

[@benfrainuk]

Tried your suggestion on the audio for my latest review (Glove 80). If you get chance to take a look/listen, let me know if that’s an improvement. Thanks again. 👍

[@gplusplus314]

@@benfrainuk Yes sir! Sounds great! I’ll miss the house rattles, but the quality content is a worthwhile tradeoff. 🤣

[@gennarotedesco7973]

Hi Ben, great video! If I understand correctly, you are using delta as vimdiff within the gitsign plugin? Could you expand on how you configured it (I am using delta as well but as far as I know there is no way to use it as drop-in replacement for the in-built vimdiff, but I hope I am wrong :) )?

[@benfrainuk]

The command I typically run is ‘:Gitsigns diffthis ~1’ that gives me a diff with solid background colours. There is supposed to be a way of getting it setup with Telescope too but it looked too convoluted for me to bother! Actually, now I look at my config, I’m not even sure Gitsigns is actually using delta! I think I only actually have delta working inside Lazygit. The fact that git signs shows me solid colours as opposed to the +/- that Telescope uses made me think it was using git-delta but now I am not sure!

[@gennarotedesco7973]

yes, however gitsigns uses the inbuilt vimdiff to show the differences, it does not take as option an external diff program (like delta), does it?

[@sudqi]

For deleting everything after commad instead of "df," you can do "dt," it will delete till the comma

[@benfrainuk]

But I want to delete everything AFTER the comma, not before. So I don’t think ‘dt,’ would help would it? Have I misunderstood? Another option that would do it though would be to work from the other end, so ‘norm $dF,x’ so we go to the end of the line, then delete back to the comma, then x to remove the character under the cursor

[@sudqi]

​@@benfrainuk I've misunderstood you sorry. I honestly use the substitute way more frequent .

[@sibouras792]

this is late but you could just move the cursor with l, so `dt,l`

[@dbsmith3974]

I was looking for the function that you added to telescope... is it in your blog?

[@benfrainuk]

Sorry! Just added the links to the description 👍

[@whirr9755]

how do you get that colorful animation on the line number when jumping at around ~ 2:40 ? thanks

[@benfrainuk]

github.com/gen740/SmoothCursor.nvim 👍

[@brandondapro]

Have you switched from sublime to nvim?

[@benfrainuk]

Still love them both

[@imaksimus]

Thanks for the video, it’s great. To copy unequal string you could also do :%!awk '{print $3}'

[@benfrainuk]

Cool! Will have a look at that and try and understand. Have had a tab open ‘Understanding Awk’ for about 4 years I still haven’t read 🤣

[@imaksimus]

@@benfrainuk this is similar to the ripgrep example you show later in the video. Essentially it is a filter which prints the third column of each row.

[@benfrainuk]

@@imaksimus oooh, that’s really cool. Thanks, I am reading that article right now 👍👍

[@imaksimus]

@@benfrainuk one more thing from me and I’ll shut up 😅 To delete everything after a comma, the following replace command would work too: :%s/,\zs.*/

[@benfrainuk]

@@imaksimus I’ll happily take everything you’ve got 👍

[@pilkers745]

hey ben! do you use tmux as well by chance??

[@benfrainuk]

I don’t. I find Kitty is enough for my needs.

[@user-tb4ig7qh9b]

Emacs where emacs