Vim on ilikeorangutans

Vim Digraph

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:54:51 -0500

Was writing a few posts for my food blog and needed to type some some “special” characters like é. When on a Mac that’s really simple because the keymap supports typing compound keys. But I’m on Linux and switching between keyboard layouts is annoying. So I figured vim must have a way for typing these characters, and behold, I learned about Vim’s digraph support. The documentation is quite good but I’ll cherry pick some combos because otherwise I’ll forget.

Slow Ruby Syntax Highlighting in Vim

Thu, 21 Mar 2019 12:07:08 -0400

I recently switched back from MacVim to terminal (alacritty) Vim because I’m trying to step up my tmux game after reading the excellent tmux 2 book from the Pragmatic Bookshelf. But anyways, I noticed incredibly slow syntax highlighting for larger ruby files, so slow that editing code was almost impossible. After lots of searching and debugging I found it was the regular expression engine Vim uses by default in combination with the Ruby syntax highlighter.