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Have your calls forwarded to a service you can answer from your computer. Securely strap your phone to the back of an outdoor cat. Be sure to set a strong passcode so the cat can't…

Vim already allows you to use :shell. Neovim took it a step further with the added benefit that you can treat the output as buffer text. Just because you can't see the advantages t…

The same question can be asked about Vim 7.4 and Vim 8.0. Which should a plugin developer choose to support? I'm a plugin developer and choose to support any version that has the r…

Speaking practically, if you're using a terminal to use Neovim, you get consistent window management. If you're using one of Neovim's GUI clients, you also get a terminal in the GU…

Vim didn't eat Neovim's lunch. It made its own lunch. Vim8's async feature is a copy only in name. Comparing both async APIs, I'm almost certain that Vim8's was added spitefully. I…

The backtick is also used for for jumping to marks. I wouldn't recommend overriding that one. `. will put your cursor back to the last insertion point. '. will put you back on the …

Don't worry about me. I won't be discouraged about anything :) I want to be able to produce GIFs since that's relatively easy enough, but it got me thinking that there just needs t…

A leader key will expand the number of keys available to you. You can have maps like j that doesn't interfere with the default j map. There is also that does the same thing. They'r…

You like the backslash as the leader key?! Well I never!

This doesn't meet my criteria for easy peasy :( If there was a utility that converted that json file to a single HTML file, that'd be a different story. If you feel up to doing tha…

Here's an example of not-so-real time rendering: https://share.esdf.io/log.html It's a tmux window displaying the log file for the share.esdf.io domain. It refreshes every second, …

The thing I love so far about Vim is no one argues about key bindings because no one is right. But, almost everyone agrees that the default leader key is awful. I imagine it's the …

A convert! (Score!) To make navigating Vim and tmux splits more palatable, I highly recommend this plugin: https://github.com/christoomey/vim-tmux-navigator

I thought about it, but it would bring this outside of the scope of a weekend project :) Besides, gotty might be better suited for that task: https://github.com/yudai/gotty

Not real-time, but yes, kind of. Add `--stream` to the command. Here's an example of it rendering every second: https://share.esdf.io/log.html It is displaying the log file for my …

asciinema is a very useful. But, what I found unappealing about it was that I needed asciinema to play the recordings (is that still the case?). I wanted to be able to put the rend…

Like I mentioned there, I use it to pester my friends :) tmux is simply fantastic for keeping a session active. Not to mention you won't need to use multiple disjointed emulator wi…

Example rendered sessions. Warning: The animated examples might not be impressive on low performance devices, and they may drain your battery if you leave them opened. Color [disk:…

The examples are linked on the github page. This was something I had a tiny internal debate about. This thing renders HTML, but I wanted something visual on the README. But, that w…

Change for the sake of change can reveal good ideas. Every time I hear someone talk like this, I can't help but think of what we wouldn't have now if we kept sticking with things t…