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konfekt

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    Comment #47572525

    :Silent [0] is an effort to work similarly in Neovim to Vim's `:!` [0] https://gist.github.com/Konfekt/8e484af2955a0c7bfe82114df683...

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    Comment #47572508

    :Silent [0] is an effort to work similarly in Neovim to Vim's `:!` [0] https://gist.github.com/Konfekt/8e484af2955a0c7bfe82114df683...

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    Comment #47119346

    With ever more code coming at you in growing diffs, efficiently shifting it around with Vim becomes even more valuable

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    Comment #47077283

    Just stating the obvious that there's an entire culture around replacing mice by keyboards, starting with a Vim mode in most apps.

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    Comment #46396119

    How about buying (and installing) two cheap laptops, say used Thinkpads (or Framework!?), and then backing up $HOME (and maybe list of installed packages) at one's convenience? The…

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    Comment #46262221

    They may have rendered absurd to not have TLS, but they also rendered certification absurd, in the sense that all you get is little more than encryption: if you care about identity…

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    Comment #45349746

    The classic z [0] is a shell script and thus doesn't require any installation other than loading this script in your shell's rc file. I found Navita [1] an improvement over it that…

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    Comment #43741827

    Haigh's Mathematics in Everyday Life [0] provides modern examples. [0] https://plus.maths.org/content/john-haigh

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    Comment #42689742

    Try these work-arounds: - either adding to your `:help vimrc` if has('clientserver') && empty(v:servername) try call remote_startserver('VIM-' . getpid()) catch '^Vim\%((\a\+)\)\=:…

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    Comment #42669606

    There's the built-in `packadd editexisting` to take care of that; On Unix https://github.com/gioele/vim-autoswap could be more convenient.

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    Comment #42534971

    Try filepicker.vim [0] to navigate these in one of the many popular millers like lf, yazi, ranger or nnn [0] https://github.com/Konfekt/filepicker.vim

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    Comment #42415747

    Though it promises to convert everything to Markdown, it seems to be a worse version of what the already existing tools such as PDFtotext, docx2txt, pptx2md, ... collected [here] d…

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    Comment #42352448

    Maybe worth reminding the self-documenting Makefile [0] discussed here. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30137254

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    Comment #42222284

    If you buy in and happen to use Vim, there are plug-ins [0] to print debug by single keystrokes. [0] : https://github.com/bergercookie/vim-debugstring

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    Comment #41509070

    For those without admin rights preferring ZSH to Bash in the Windows Terminal: install MSYS2 with scoop.sh, then the ZSH package with `pacman -S zsh` and add a shell with commandli…

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    Comment #41327348

    Try set send_multipart_alternative_filter=markdown2html.py [0] in your muttrc [0] https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/blob/master/contrib/markdo...

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    Comment #41327294

    All fair points. The second and third one can be mitigated by a, say, w3m mailcap entry respectively muttrc entry set send_multipart_alternative_filter=markdown2html.py [1] [1] htt…

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    Comment #40186724

    Which make version does the latter command use? For GNU make 4.2.1 on Linux, I hade more luck with something along the lines of @awk '/^[a-zA-Z_-]+:[^#]*## .*$$/ {match($$0, /## (.…

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    Comment #23441669

    In the UK Thatcher might have been a driving force. In Western thinking (entering a rabbit hole) conceiving humanities as sciences is a recurrent theme (say, in the Scepticism of H…

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    Comment #23164988

    For Excel on Microsoft Windows, there is vim_ahk [1] to add Vim key bindings (after adding EXCEL.EXE to VimGroup) using AutoHotKey. For LibreOffice, especially its spreadsheet calc…

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    Comment #23164950

    In the quest for an analogue on Linux of Autohotkey that exclusively runs on Microsoft Windows, neither autokey nor espanso proved as reliable. Instead, I derived my own little she…