Quick Neovim and Markdown tip!
A while back I had set up some Lua / Textmate snippets for basic Markdown formatting including bold, italic, strike through etc. To do that involved sending the text to a register then selecting the snippet from the popup menu and pressing the completion key.
Rounding out this series on editing blog posts we have some bits and bobs related to speeding up the entry of your post content.
I don’t know about you, but I would bet a dollar that you would want to put an image into a blog post using a paste command. You know, like every other program supports.
When I started on this post editing… post I had a handful of items. As tends to happen, when one gets some momentum, a handful can runneth into a series. Which brings us to part 2 on improving the Hugo post writing experience.
As the underlying language that terminals speak dates back to before the invention of the cotton gin, that makes it impossible to map certain keys and combinations, including those with multiple modifiers such as shift+control, control+alt etc.
I had worked around this with craziness but now in 2024 you can do this in a sane(-ish) way – rejoice!
How excited am I to now be able to map control+shift+p to search all files?
Extremely.
Hugo uses plain text for storing files in markdown format which means you can use just about anything for editing your posts.
As a command line fool mutant you’ll see those types of ideas below.
A common want when editing code or prose, nay, necessity is to wrap some selected text with something else - it could be an opening / closing tag combo, or some kind of logging method or even some kind of formatting function.
Here are some common examples:
Following on from Saving time with a preset tmux setup I recently created a more convoluted indepth setup.
Programming is all about doing the same thing… over and over again, ad nauseam. No, not the computer, the poor programmer as they work on similar projects bouncing around all the different tools.
For example, let’s take Drupal development — usually once you are in the midst of it, you may be accessing:
