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Workflow

To set context for future posts, I’ll briefly describe my development workflow.

• terminal: kitty
• shell: zsh
• projects: kitty-meow
• editor: neovim
• finder: fzf & dirbuf
• config: direnv

Important features

For all tools, they have to be fast. The reason I swapped to vim in the first place, was because working in a large repo in RubyMine was just way too laggy.

Kitty

• it can do tabs
  • i use a tab for each different project
• within a tab, it can do windows
  • i typically use 2+ windows, neovim on the top and shells on the bottom
• it’s scriptable

Zsh

Primarily prefer zsh because of auto-suggestions. But appending to path is also nice e.g. path+=:("$GOPATH/bin").

Kitty-meow

Made my own project manager for kitty inspired by tmux.

• project switching
• seamless git cloning
• repo caching for large orgs

Neovim

• modal editing
• large set of plugins

Fzf

• a fuzzy finder, but also useful in a variety of contexts
  • ctrl-r: history fuzzy find
  • ctrl-t: file fuzzy find
• has a neovim plugin

Dirbuf

• setting config in shell makes is available consintently across languagues