emre şahin's digital garden 🍃 - LazyVim

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Emre Şahin — 2024-05-24T21:04:10+00:00

I believe in the value of reducing friction when taking notes. Today, I added a function to my Neovim configuration to create a timestamped file and open it for editing.

function CreateTimestampedFile()
  local zkdir = os.getenv("HOME") .. "/github.com/iesahin/garden/zk/"
  local timestamp = os.date("%Y%m%d%H%M%S")
  local filename = zkdir .. "/" .. timestamp .. ".md"
  vim.cmd("edit " .. filename)
end

vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("n", "F", ":lua CreateTimestampedFile()", { noremap = true, silent = true })

Now, I can just hit F (which is F in my setup) and immediately start adding a note to my zettelkasten.

Bits 9

Emre Şahin — 2024-05-24T21:02:38+00:00

I have quite a few LazyVim plugins, but this simple keymapping makes my life much easier:

vim.keymap.set({ "n", "i" }, "", 'yy:r!"')

I type a command, like ls, on a line and hit . That line is copied, executed, and the output is read into the buffer just below it.

I use it for all sorts of tasks, from listing open PRs with gh to fetching website text with w3m. It has significantly improved my workflow, allowing me to use the shell effectively within textual notebooks.

TIL 11: Unhide Markdown Code Block Types in LazyVim

Emre Şahin — 2024-02-26T10:22:29+00:00

To unhide Markdown code block types in LazyVim, you can set the conceallevel to 0.

Add the following to your configuration:

vim.opt.conceallevel = 0