Vim setup

documenting for myself

Sophia syntax highlighting

todo. it's on github somewhere, not hard to find

fuzzy finding plugin

this is annoying and requires like 10 minutes of setup.

BUT this is super helpful in huge repositories such as the node codebase

sudo apt install bat fd-find fzf ripgrep

(devuan excalibur)

ripgrep is optional, craig, but the vim plugin needs it if you want to search for regexes inside files

say you're trying to quickly remember what the fuck gmser_id:id() is. Like is that the record or is that the 33-byte tagged public key? I can't remember and neither can you

this saves you like 15 seconds and a bunch of context switching. each time

the plugin is super annoying to install but basically don't follow any of the instructions in the repo. just clone the fzf.vim repo on github (google) to ~/.vim/bundle/fzf.vim.

you also need to tell vim to load the .vim file that ships with the package

[pharpend@picklet ioecs/GajuDesk master] % dpkg -L fzf
/.
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/fzf
/usr/bin/fzf-tmux
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/fzf
/usr/share/doc/fzf/README-VIM.md.gz
/usr/share/doc/fzf/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/fzf/README.md.gz
/usr/share/doc/fzf/changelog.Debian.amd64.gz
/usr/share/doc/fzf/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/fzf/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/fzf/copyright
/usr/share/doc/fzf/examples
/usr/share/doc/fzf/examples/completion.bash
/usr/share/doc/fzf/examples/completion.zsh
/usr/share/doc/fzf/examples/fzf.vim
/usr/share/doc/fzf/examples/key-bindings.bash
/usr/share/doc/fzf/examples/key-bindings.fish
/usr/share/doc/fzf/examples/key-bindings.zsh
/usr/share/doc/fzf/examples/plugin
/usr/share/fish
/usr/share/fish/vendor_functions.d
/usr/share/fish/vendor_functions.d/fzf_key_bindings.fish
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/fzf-tmux.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fzf.1.gz
/usr/share/doc/fzf/examples/plugin/fzf.vim

last file there. put that file at ~/.vim/autoload/fzf.vim

should just work.

:Files opens the fuzzy file finder
:Rg is the interactive grep thing shown above

i have this vimrc:

let $FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND = 'fdfind --type f'
noremap <C-e> :Files<CR>
noremap <C-r> :Rg<CR>

the fdfind thing means fuzzy find doesn't surface files in your .gitignore (e.g. beam files, _build insanity)

will try and see