Remember my post about switching to VSCode? Well, plot twist: the very next day after publishing it, I switched to WebStorm. And guess what? I've been on JetBrains IDEs ever since. I know, I know. Another "why I switched editors" post. But hear me ou...
Recently, I got curious about how Vim’s built-in commands handle file finding and navigation. Even though I was using modern fuzzy finding plugins at the time, I decided to explore Vim’s native mechanisms. To my surprise, I started enjoying the simpl...
I wanted to share some in-buffer search techniques that I brought back to my Neovim setup from my year of experience with Emacs. You know how you can use "/" and "?" to perform forward and backward searches for text in the current buffer. Similarly, ...
One of the main frustrations most vim users has could be doing find and replace operations across multiple files, from within vim. I will list down few techniques with some use cases. Use case one: Find and replace a dependency version in multiple pa...
A YouTube video I watch recently suggested to learn vim motions because "you look badass" when you use them. I've also seen many more videos where people say things like "I'm going back to vscode because:, vim sucks, emacs sucks, I don't want to look...
As simple as it sound code formatting can get very complecated when you need to do it accross different filetype. I'm not a big fan of auto formatting on save, I like to choose when to format my code. But the problem with code formatting is there a m...
