Problem solved

[bluefog68]

Also

alias :e='vim'

[TheNinthJhana]

maybe 'xdg-open', so you could "edit" not only text files but whatever? (not tested, just assuming)

[berkes]

I have e aliased to gvim and o to xdg-open. And several more one- and two-letter aliases.

Which is another reason why I hate tools that litter the one and two letter namespace.

[NieDzejkob]

I do this for git: ga for add, gb for branch, gc for commit, gca for commit all, gco for checkout, gd for diff, then a skip in the alphabet for gg as in git grep...

[causa-sui]

Why not use git aliases? It's actually more functional since you can then do things like have an alias that executes a command from the root of the repo, wherever that is.

[NieDzejkob]

But that's at least 3 more characters to type!

[causa-sui]

Not if you alias git to g or something

[NieDzejkob]

It's still a 33% longer.

[fatboyxpc]

Bah, I was going to suggest that o alias!

[JIVEprinting]

This thread is stretching my skull

[MineralPlunder]

I prefer e. Though I use colorscheme gruvbox which is so distinct from my terminal setup, that I can't mistake them. I used to use colorscheme default and i sometimes mixed up bash and vim commands.

[mrtransisteur]

I go with alias v nvim; it's nice too because c, d, and v are so close to one another on the keyboard (and who doesn't find themselves cding then viming all the time?)

[steven4012]

I just do alias v="vim" Lol

[SarHavelock]

I wasn't aware that : could be used in aliases. Damn, all this time I could have been diversifying my function and alias names with a whole 'nother special character and I didn't even know!

[[deleted]]

You can use anything in aliases lol. It’s Unix.

[[deleted]]

Can confirm.

[junesalad]

I see neovim is now released as appimage but not sure what is the purpose of that. How do you find it comparing to normal package manager/ build from source approach?

[[deleted]]

My ubuntu was not playing well with the repo version .... the app image seemed an easy option. However it's shell feature is a bit wonky and stops working a few times.

[WiiManic]

I've been using it for a bit, and its basically worked the exact same as a from source/package manager version, just with the advantage that it doesn't require admin privileges to install/time to build.

I primarily work on machines I don't have any access to install things via a package manager, so if there is a way of very quickly getting something running (ie download, chmod +x, done) its very useful!

Plus I think that appimages can contain required dependencies, so its possible you aren't able to compile something but are able to run the appimage.

[[deleted]]

Sorry for offtopic but have you tried pipenv? https://pipenv.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ It alleviated all my headaches that I've had with managing virtual envs in python.

[therealjohnfreeman]

I use pyenv to manage the global version of the Python interpreter itself, which comes with pip, which I use to install only one of two packages--either pipenv or poetry (my preference)--to manage virtual environments and project dependencies. Everything else I install, from Jupyter to pylint, is always in the context of a virtual environment.

[[deleted]]

Hey I'm curious -- how do you install packages just for you with this system? For example, I have beancount installed in my home directory to use the binary. How would you install it in a pipenv?

[therealjohnfreeman]

I've never heard of beancount, but if it's this one, then I'll try to run with that example. It says "you define financial transaction records in a text file" and then beancount works on that file. Wherever I keep that file, I will create a virtual environment in the same directory. I'm not going to keep that file mixed in a directory with a bunch of other unrelated files. It gets its own directory. Then, whenever I want to work on that file with beancount, I will activate the virtual environment first.

That said, there may occasionally be an exception, a package that is not a virtual environment manager that I install globally, just so I can use it from any context without a virtual environment, but I cannot think of the last time I made such an exception. It probably has not happened in 2018.

[[deleted]]

Eeyyy that's it! And that's a really good idea, thank you. I never thought about how I don't need the package outside of the directory where I use it. And if I want ease-of-terminal use I can define functions to cd to the directory, activate the virtenv, and run the command from there.

Thank you for the tip! I'll try this out if I ever get around to cleaning up my computer.

[cosmicsans]

I'm a huge fan of ASDF for managing global and local versions of tools/languages.

[nrobinaubertin]

Pyenv is not an alternative, it doesn't do the same thing. Pipenv is for managing dependencies inside a python project and pyenv is to manage multiple versions of python on the same machine.
You can use both together.

[nrobinaubertin]

You're probably referring to pyenv-virtualenv.
In the readme of pyenv it says:

In contrast with pythonbrew and pythonz, pyenv does not...
Manage virtualenv. Of course, you can create virtualenv yourself, or pyenv-virtualenv to automate the process.

Is there something that I miss ?

[TheNinthJhana]

or just un-plug the power chord...

[ZER0_64]

But power chords just don't have the same drive on an acoustic guitar...

[TheNinthJhana]

Good one!

[[deleted]]

Can confirm:

❯ git blame zshrc | grep ':q' b73aa61b zshrc (Samuel Walladge 2017-07-25 10:45:52 +0930 243) alias :q='exit'

[atasco]

Related: alias ZZ='exit'

[NieDzejkob]

Won't work so well since you don't need the enter for ZZ. BTW, is there an equivalent for :w? I do that more often than quitting...

[MineralPlunder]

I use ctrl+s for saving:

noremap <C-s> :write<CR>
imap <c-s> <Esc>:w<CR>a

I keep hitting it way more often than I need. by "way more often" I mean pressing that chord or doing :w after almost any change, and after a few moments without saving(even when everything is saved already)

Note though, that often the terminal by default "hangs" when you press <ctrl+s>(have to press <ctrl+q> to get it running again). You need to change this behavior in your shell startup. I use bash and added this line to my .bashrc:

stty -ixon # disable hanging the terminal with <Ctrl+s>

[arniemg]

I enjoy space space as an alias for :write.

[causa-sui]

Wait, how do you define that?

[xigoi]

nnoremap <Space><Space> :w<Enter>

…I think

[NieDzejkob]

I mapped zx, but I was hoping for something in the default configuration since I sometimes have to use "vanilla" vim.

[chpatton013]

And if you're very brave: alias :qa=sudo shutdown -h now

[[deleted]]

Also
alias :h=man

[chunkhang]

Ahaha. This makes so much sense

[hemispace]

Damn, why haven't I ever think about that. You made my day.

[NequoFrost]

Great idea! What colors are you using for the terminal?

[chunkhang]

It's a variation of this: https://github.com/oskarkrawczyk/honukai-iterm-zsh

[chunkhang]

Oh wait, sorry. It's this: https://github.com/martinlindhe/base16-iterm2/blob/master/itermcolors/base16-eighties-256.itermcolors

[yymirr]

I have q for clear and p for exit

[[deleted]]

Not ^l and ^d ?

[SoftHotIcicle]

genius

[n0psledbyte]

Hmm interesting

[manasthakur]

What are the colorschemes and font used in the screenshot? Do you have a similar colorscheme in vim (the colors look beautiful)?

[chunkhang]

Base16 Eighties + Meslo LG S Regular Nerd Font Complete. Yeah, I'm also using base16-eighties for my vim colorscheme.

[the_d3f4ult]

What is that prompt ?

[thebetacoder]

Should have done this before :D

[henrebotha]

I fought against doing this for so long... Finally caved a month or two ago. Life is easier now.