It’s been on my list for some time to finally start using Neovim and all that it has to offer as an IDE. As an experienced Vim user, it was hard deciding on what path I should take to convert over. Almost by definition, Vi users are all distinct snowflakes and have their preferred tools and methodologies. That makes it hard to choose who’s advice to follow.
Takeaway
After trying (and failing) to bolt on the IDE components to my current Vim configuration, I came away with the feeling that I can still use Vim as a text editor, but to use Neovim as an IDE I should start from scratch with one of the pre-configured flavors.
Note that I was successful in porting my current Vim configuration, so it would be possible to use Neovim as my ‘Vim’. But for now I think it is safest (and sanest) to maybe use both in tandem for different types of editing.
The GitHub CI Actions for my favorite open-source project, the bookmarking service Shaarli, started failing recently. No one was quite sure why, especially because there hadn’t been any significant updates to the tests, and they passed locally for all the developers who ran them. I had a small pull request that was failing as well, so I thought I would give fixing the actions a shot.
I was fortunate enough to attend my very first in-person
Perl conference
this year in Las Vegas!
Ironically my first real exposure to Perl was almost 30 years (!!) ago when I read
Learning Perl
on a plane to Vegas!
It was great to finally meet so many wonderful people that I felt I already knew through using their software and watching conference talks from prior years. Here were the highlights of the conference for me.
For years, I’ve been searching for a suitable terminal emulator for
Cygwin, but nothing seemed as
polished or had enough features to pull me away from the boring
default.
I finally found the Holy Grail in a program I’ll call
Java Terminator.
The authors of this fine program just call it Terminator, but unfortunately a later Linux GNOME-based terminal emulator
of the same name
stole some of their thunder.
