Post #436779

2026-02-27 15:21 UTC

New post: Neovim Crash Course for Sysadmins Not a beginner's guide. This covers the things you still get wrong after years of Vim - efficient navigation, why your paste lands in the wrong place (and the one-key fix), YAML indentation workflows, quick macros, and what Neovim's LSP actually gives you for infrastructure work. Written for people who edit configs and playbooks all day. https://blog.hofstede.it/neovim-crash-course-for-sysadmins-the-20-that-solve-80-of-the-pain/ #neovim #vim #sysadmin #devops #linux #ansible #yaml

Replies (4)

@tux@burningboard.net 2026-02-27 16:11

@Larvitz@burningboard.net Well, I'm sticking with my Nano 😉

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@benjamineskola@hachyderm.io 2026-02-27 15:35

@Larvitz is that image AI-generated? The line numbers don’t align with the actual lines. (And more: the file is yaml but the filename is config.lua; and the statusline reports a different line number to what’s actually visible in the buffer.) A real screenshot would at least look actually competent.

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@hyde@lazybear.social 2026-03-01 10:01

@Larvitz nice article. Maybe @ctietze you can learn some stuff :) Also I love gqap on a paragraph. I wrote a couple of things about vim / neovim here https://lazybea.rs/tags/vim

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@dlite@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-03-29 14:06

@Larvitz Many thanks for this article and your blog in general. The articles have a good level of detail, and I always find some useful new things.

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