The classic way to do “find and replace” in Vim is pretty well known: :%s/target/replacement/gc This will replace all instances of target in the current buffer (that’s what the % is about) with ...

Most Vim users probably know that they can use Ctrl-R to insert the contents of registers, while typing some command. For instance - you can insert the clipboard contents with Ctrl-R +. Fewer peop...

How to use Vim's command history window to edit, reuse, and fix commands with full Normal mode editing power.

Joining adjacent lines is something that comes up often while editing text/code. That’s why it should come as no surprise that this is something well supported by Vim. You have two ways to join lin...

I’ve been working on OSS projects for almost 15 years now. Things are simple in the beginning - you’ve got a single project, no users to worry about and all the time and the focus in the world. Thi...

While playing with Rust recently I’ve noticed that most Rust tutorials suggest writing code like this: println!("Hello, {}!", get_person()); // implicit position println!("Hello, {0...

I’m a very heavy quick (dropdown) terminal user, so after adopting Ghostty one of the points of frustration for me was that I could not specify a default size for my quick terminal. Instead I had t...

This year I spent a bit of time playing with Python, after having mostly ignored it since 2005 when I was learning it originally. I did like Python back then, but a few years afterwards I discovere...

Recently I’ve been wondering how to name Ruby methods that have predicate looking names (e.g. foo?), but don’t behave like predicates - namely they return other values besides the canonical true an...