Automatically Refreshing NVim plugins

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

One of the key benefits of modern editors like NVim, Vim, or Emacs is the rich plugin ecosystem. After years with Vim, I switched to NVim and was immediately impressed by its plugin landscape. The Lazy plugin manager—available for NVim > 0.8—quickly became my favourite. Lazy simplifies plugin discovery and management. It offers an intuitive interface and powerful commands that make it easy to add, remove, or update plugins.

Aggressively formatting your Python files

Sat, 30 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Vim provides a wide range of functions for file formatting, starting with basic features such as reindent.

VimL Implementation

Creating a function within Vim to process the file is likely the most straightforward approach. The primary purpose of this function is to pass the filename to an external command for formatting. Leveraging the rich ecosystem of Python formatting tools available from the command line allows the function to efficiently and consistently format files, tapping into powerful, pre-existing solutions for code aesthetics and standardization. In effect, the role of the function is to pass the filename to the call below:

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Automatically Refreshing NVim plugins

Aggressively formatting your Python files

VimL Implementation