Enhance your Workflow with Tmux and LazyVim

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LazyVim and tmux

Now what is LazyVim?

• LazyVim is Neovim setup powered by lazy.nvim

Benefits

• Insanely fast 🚀 and efficient in executing commands and editing text📝.

• Highly customizable🛠️. Thanks to plugins.

• Navigate🧭 and edit your code without exiting terminal.

Few Prerequisites

• Basic knowledge of CLI.

• nerd font installed.

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• Make your boring terminal look cool.

• Basic Vim commands
VIM or Vi Improved, is a free and open-source text editor for the terminal.
Here are few commands to learn VIM.
Vim Commands
1.) gg - go to the top of the page 2.) G - go to the bottom of the page 3.) 0 - go to the starting of the line even if spaces are there it goes to the atmost start of the line ** ^ - go to the start of the line where words begin 4.) $ - go to the end of the line 4.) w- go to the first character of the next word 5.) e - go to the end character of the next word 6.) b - go to the first character of the previous word 7.) W, E, B - does the same work as the above commands but skips the other characters and traverses through words only 8.) / - forward search 9.) ? - backward search 10.) h(<-), l(->) 11.) j(down), k(up) 12.) dd - delete entire line 13.) dw - delete word ** Number* dw => delete N number of words 14.) d$ - delete till the end of the line from the cursor
*** d^ - deletes till the start of the line from the cursor 15.) p - paste 16.) yy - copy the entire line 17.) yw - copy the word 18.) y$ - copy till the end of the line from the cursor ******19.) :%s/wordtobepalced/replacingword/g - entire document changes (if we use gc in the end it asks for y or n for every instance) 20.) :form,to s/ wordtobepalced/replacingword/g - certain number of lines 21.) ctrl+ V - select over a certain area 22.) V - select over line 23.) x - delete character 24.) s- delete character and goes to insert mode 25.) r - replace text 26.) c- change -> goes to the insert mode deleting that word 27.) c$ => deletes from cursor and goes to insert mode 28.] cw => deletes that word and goes to insert mode 29.) n - goes to the next instance of the word 30.) N - goes to the previous instance of the word 31.) f - followed by character => moves till the next character is found 32.) F - same as above but reverse search 33.) H - goes to the top of the visible screen 34.) L - goes to the bottom of the visible screen 35.) M - goes to the mid of the visible screen 36.) ctrl + enter => create a new line 37.) ddp - moves the line down 38.) ddkP - move line up 37.) ddp - moves the line down
38.) yi” - copy inside double quotes
Huh!🤔 too many right! Don’t worry you gotta learn few first then everything will get handy. The best part is you don't ever need a mouse 🦍.
• Though there’s a heavy learning curve it’s just worth it. I know coming out of VS code is hard :’)
• There are essentially 3 modes normal , visual and `

Configuration

• My personal config files :- https://github.com/durgaprasad118/Dotfiles/tree/main/.tmux

• the configuration is pretty simple and stright forward as explained here ‣

• Plugins are highly customizable and can look at my dotfiles for further info.

Usage

• Go to your required directory and type nvim that’s it, you are good to write your code now.

• Here are few commands you can pay a visit although documentation has everything.

• The best part is these are also customizable.

• This comes with lazygit which is a awesome place to make commits pull, push, check status, and do everything you need using git.

Tmux

• Now another thing comes up which is tmux (terminal multiplexer).
Advantages
• Persistent sessions: Detach and reattach sessions, ensuring your work is never lost
• Efficient window and pane management: Split your terminal into multiple windows and panes
• Improve productivity: Run multiple things within a single window.

• tmux and neovim can interact with easily together that the super power of it.

• This is also highly customisable and looks awesome like mine. ( I love my terminal)

• This is how my entire working environment looks like.

• The installation is pretty simple.
• Install tmux from:- https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki
• Create a .tmux.conf file in the root directory
• Add :- https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm
• run this command

tmux source ~/.tmux.conf

• Install your favorite plugins and you are good to go.

Conclusion