Tabs vs spaces has always been a controversial topic. Thankfully, #vim isn't biased in any way.

To convert spaces to tabs, use `:set noexpandtab`, then `:retab!`.

Convert tabs to spaces with:

:set expandtab
:set tabstop=4
:set shiftwidth=4
:retab

It's stupid how some people modify #vim so heavily with plugins and themes. To the point where they actually needed something more in #neovim.

I'm happy with my 39 line ~/.vimrc and 0 plugins.

Until this is resolved, I'll be using console Vim, which does ship with Bluefin Stable.

I generally prefer gVim because I use the system clipboard a lot, and it's slightly easier with a GUI app. I also use the mouse a bit. That's the kind of Vimmer I am.

I can make it work with console #Vim, and that's probably better for me in the long run.

I would have moved to #Neovim GUI #Neovide, but my .vimrc does not work, and it would be a heavy lift to re-create it.

New post: Neovim Crash Course for Sysadmins

Not a beginner's guide. This covers the things you still get wrong after years of Vim - efficient navigation, why your paste lands in the wrong place (and the one-key fix), YAML indentation workflows, quick macros, and what Neovim's LSP actually gives you for infrastructure work.

Written for people who edit configs and playbooks all day.

https://blog.hofstede.it/neovim-crash-course-for-sysadmins-the-20-that-solve-80-of-the-pain/

#neovim #vim #sysadmin #devops #linux #ansible #yaml

VIM 9.2

"Vim now adheres to the XDG Base Directory Specification, using $HOME/.config/vim for user configuration."

There's a lot of cool things here!

https://www.vim.org/vim-9.2-released.php

#vim

https://www.vim.org/vim-9.2-released.php

#!/bin/sh
PLUGIN_DIR="${HOME}/.vim/pack"
echo "Updating all plugins in ${PLUGIN_DIR}"
for directory in ${PLUGIN_DIR}/*; do
    for subdir in "$directory"/start/* "$directory"/opt/*; do
        if [ -d "${subdir}" ]; then
            plugin=$(basename "${subdir}")
            echo "Updating ${plugin}"
            git -C "${subdir}" pull
        fi
    done
done

CC: @mms@bsd.cafe

Because I realized that all of the thing that I truly needed to do were part of Vim's Core Functionality. And, that many of the plugins I had installed just re-implemented core Vim features in slightly different ways.

So, I got myself used to the native Vim way of doing things, and dumped all of the plugins one by one. And now, I just open Vim and get work done with very little left to tweak in a streamlined vimrc.

Although familiarity with usual vim still comes in handy on the school computer 😅