4 posts tagged with "productivity"

You've typed a 10-word kubectl command. You realize the namespace is wrong. Now you're holding Ctrl+Left six times to get there. Or worse, reaching for the mouse.

Vim solved this for text editing decades ago. Why are we still navigating command lines like it's 1985?

zsh-jumper brings fuzzy search to command line navigation. Press a key, pick a word, cursor jumps there. Or press ; and a letter for instant EasyMotion-style jumps.

You install a plugin for multi-cursor editing. Another for shell integration. A third for incremental search preview. Your plugin count grows, startup time increases, and you debug compatibility issues between packages.

Most of these features exist in vanilla Neovim. Have existed since Vim 7. Here are 10 built-in features that replace common plugins.

You add a new tmux binding. A week later you're hunting through .tmux.conf because you can't remember what you mapped to prefix + g. The shortcuts.yaml you maintain? Three months out of date.

The problem isn't discipline. It's architecture. Any system requiring manual sync between source of truth (config files) and documentation (shortcuts file) will drift.

Parse your config files directly. For workflows that don't map to a single keybinding, use tealdeer custom pages. One popup, two modes, zero maintenance.

This technique is useful when a program you can't modify calls CLI tools on your machine. For example, pet search pipes output directly to fzf with no filtering options. PATH hijacking lets you intercept and modify this behavior without changing either program.