DEV Community: Kristian Quirapas

What's your editor journey like as a developer?

Kristian Quirapas — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 02:05:11 +0000

I stumbled upon this amusing thread on twitter where people were discussing different editors.

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Don't get me wrong, I shared these tweets because I find them funny. It also made me look back on my developer journey and the editors I used before.

Here's my Editor journey.

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I was wondering, what's your editor journey like?
Share them down below.

If you're a blockchain developer, what's your vision for the future of Web3 that made you want to be a blockchain developer?

Kristian Quirapas — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 10:41:17 +0000

I'm K, and I'm currently transitioning into Blockchain Development, from a Web Development background.

I decided to be a Blockchain Developer because I believe there are a lot of innovations to be made and it excites me.

How about you? What is your vision, that made you want to be a blockchain developer?

I'm fairly new to blockchain development, and hearing from other developers in the space will surely help me gain a wider perspective.

Thanks!

What standards, guides, etc. do you settle before starting to build a project with a small team?

Kristian Quirapas — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 06:07:53 +0000

Hey, I'm currently in college, and we were tasked to work as a group to build an application of our choice.

I'm currently the leader of our group and I'm disappointed in myself for my incompetence, because running the group has been hard and disorganized.

What standards/guides/resources do you setup or prepare before jumping into the actual building of the project (coding)?

How can I make sure that boundaries and expectations are set?

How do I make our collaboration smoother and clearer?

Thank you!

Neo(Vim) on Steroids: vim-sneak + easymotion = hop.nvim

Kristian Quirapas — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 01:55:11 +0000

If you've been using Vim for a while now, you probably stumbled upon some navigation plugins like easymotion and vim-sneak. Unless... you're still stuck inside vim without any idea of how to quit. (SHEESH!)

Kidding aside...

easymotion is used for navigating the buffer by pressing a keystroke and marking the text you can jump to. This is demonstrated below. Github

vim-sneak, on the other hand, is also used for navigating your buffer. But instead of relying on marking texts with a keystroke like easymotion, it takes 1-2 characters as an input and marks the text that contains those input characters. As seen below. Github

Okay, full disclosure, I lied.

I didn't actually use easymotion and vim-sneak in the GIFs above. I used hop.nvim.

hop.nvim is a navigation plugin that was created in order to solve easymotion's tendency to temporarily manipulate the buffer in order to mark texts and combines vim-sneak motion as a bonus. Github

You can combine the best of both worlds with one plugin and here's my Neovim configuration for it.



-- hop.nvim
require'hop'.setup()

-- normal mode (easymotion-like)
vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("n", "<Leader><Leader>b", "<cmd>HopWordBC<CR>", {noremap=true})
vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("n", "<Leader><Leader>w", "<cmd>HopWordAC<CR>", {noremap=true})
vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("n", "<Leader><Leader>j", "<cmd>HopLineAC<CR>", {noremap=true})
vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("n", "<Leader><Leader>k", "<cmd>HopLineBC<CR>", {noremap=true})

-- visual mode (easymotion-like)
vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("v", "<Leader><Leader>w", "<cmd>HopWordAC<CR>", {noremap=true})
vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("v", "<Leader><Leader>b", "<cmd>HopWordBC<CR>", {noremap=true})
vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("v", "<Leader><Leader>j", "<cmd>HopLineAC<CR>", {noremap=true})
vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("v", "<Leader><Leader>k", "<cmd>HopLineBC<CR>", {noremap=true})


-- normal mode (sneak-like)
vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("n", "s", "<cmd>HopChar2AC<CR>", {noremap=false})
vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("n", "S", "<cmd>HopChar2BC<CR>", {noremap=false})

-- visual mode (sneak-like)
vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("v", "s", "<cmd>HopChar2AC<CR>", {noremap=false})
vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("v", "S", "<cmd>HopChar2BC<CR>", {noremap=false})

vim.api.nvim_set_keymap() is used to bind keystrokes to a command in your init.lua file.

For those using Vimscript / VimL



vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("n", "<Leader><Leader>b", "<cmd>HopWordBC<CR>", {noremap=true})

-- is equivalent to

nnoremap <Leader><Leader>b :HopWordBC<CR>

There are more options for hop.nvim that you can check with :h hop but these are the ones I use.

HopWordBC looks for a word Before Cursor
HopWordAC looks for a word After Cursor
HopLineBC and HopLineAC does the same before and after cursor respectively, but looks for lines instead of words.
HopChar2AC takes 2 characters as an input and looks for texts that contain those 2 characters After Cursor
HopChar2BC does the same as HopChar2AC, but before the cursor

That's it! It's my first time posting in Dev.to and I'm glad to be part of this community.

Cheers!