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...
Some time ago, I wrote a post about using Vim to look cool and why that’s not a good idea. Now, funny enough, here I am—having switched to VSCode after years of hopping between Vim and Emacs. This isn’t one of those "Vim sucks, I'm going back to VSCo...
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...
Note: This is a post that I published in my blog on August 23, 2021, I'm re-posting it here since I'm planning to continue blogging here. Also, I'm now back on Neovim, after using Emacs for a full year, I might write a follow-up post sometime later. ...
