Ken Lee kennethlee

FOREWORDS

I don't mean the snippet at the bottom of this gist to be a generic plug-n-play solution to your search needs. It is very likely to not work for you or even break things, and it certainly is not as extensively tested and genericised as your regular third-party plugin.

My goal, here and in most of my posts, is to show how Vim's features can be leveraged to build your own high-level, low-maintenance, workflows without systematically jumping on the plugins bandwagon or twisting Vim's arm.

Instant grep + quickfix

Linting your code, the vanilla way

You may want a linter plugin to lint your code in Vim but you probably don't need it. At least try the built-in way before jumping on the plugin bandwagon.

Defining `makeprg`

autocmd FileType <filetype> setlocal makeprg=<external command>

This autocommand tells Vim to use <external command> when invoking :make % in a <filetype> buffer. You can add as many similar lines as needed for other languages.

My Vim-related gists

Long-form

This document has moved!

It's now here, in The Programmer's Compendium. The content is the same as before, but being part of the compendium means that it's actively maintained.

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

	; An example of YNAB-ish envelope budgetting with hledger/ledger
	; cf https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/315

	; Using accounts like the following:
	;
	; assets
	; business
	; bank
	; wf
	; bchecking

	" Inspired by Tim Pope's commentary.vim
	"
	" Uses b:commentstring or 'commentstring' as the comment pattern
	" example:
	" let &commentstring = '/%s/'

	nnoremap gcc :<c-u>.,.+<c-r>=v:count<cr>call <SID>toggleComment()<cr>
	nnoremap gc :<c-u>set opfunc=<SID>commentOp<cr>g@
	xnoremap gc :call <SID>toggleComment()<cr>

	(Chapters marked with * are already written. This gets reorganized constantly
	and 10 or so written chapters that I'm on the fence about aren't listed.)

	Programmer Epistemology
	* Dispersed Cost vs. Reduced Cost
	* Verificationist Fallacy
	* Mistake Metastasis
	The Overton Window
	Epicycles All The Way Down
	The Hyperspace Gates Were Just There