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SKSushanth Kamabathulablundersnbuilds.hashnode.dev4d ago · 2 min read

Three Lines and a Git Clone: How My Whole Config Boots

The plugin manager installs itself before anything else exists to do the job, and the one line of a common disable-list snippet I didn't copy. My init.lua is three lines long. Not three lines plus a b

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SKSushanth Kamabathulablundersnbuilds.hashnode.dev6d ago · 2 min read

Regex-Based Syntax Highlighting Had to Go

A parser that knows exactly where a function ends, not a regex that's guessing — and everything downstream quietly depending on the difference. For a long time I thought treesitter was a highlighting

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SKSushanth Kamabathulablundersnbuilds.hashnode.devSep 4 · 3 min read

Building an IDE Out of Spare Parts

Thirteen language servers, thirteen different settings tables, and the one exclude rule that stops two of them from fighting over the same buffer. VS Code ships with language support baked in: install

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SKSushanth Kamabathulablundersnbuilds.hashnode.devSep 3 · 3 min read

Why I Picked the Newer, Less Popular Autocomplete Engine

A Rust fuzzy matcher, a missing LuaSnip dependency, and a bet on a plugin that was still pre-1.0 when I installed it. Every Neovim config tutorial you'll find assumes nvim-cmp. It's been the default f

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SKSushanth Kamabathulablundersnbuilds.hashnode.devSep 2 · 2 min read

Six Months In: What I'd Rip Out and What's Staying

Five posts into Terminal Diaries, the honest inventory. The rip-out list was shorter than I expected, and that says something. Somewhere around five posts into this series, it felt like time to zoom o

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Uunpaid0internunpaid0intern.hashnode.devSep 1 · 2 min read

Switching from vscode to lazyvim, and I already have thoughts

For context, I've used vscode for years, comfortable, extensions for everything, mouse-friendly, basically autopilot at this point Decided to switch to lazyvim because I kept seeing people fly through

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SKSushanth Kamabathulablundersnbuilds.hashnode.devAug 31 · 3 min read

A Dashboard Shortcut I Built for a Class I Was Taking

One keybinding to start a Quarto preview, and cleanup code to make sure it never leaves a mess behind. I was taking a class that used Quarto for basically everything, problem sets, write-ups, the work

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SKSushanth Kamabathulablundersnbuilds.hashnode.devAug 29 · 3 min read

The Plugin That Replaced Eight Others

One config file, one plugin, and a feature I'd had switched off for months on an assumption. At some point my Neovim config had a picker plugin, a dashboard plugin, a notification plugin, a terminal p

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SKSushanth Kamabathulablundersnbuilds.hashnode.devAug 28 · 3 min read

Keybindings That Only Exist When They're Needed

Code lens, document color, linked editing range — three LSP features Neovim ships but never turns on, and what makes it safe to turn them on. Neovim 0.12 shipped native support for a handful of LSP fe

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SKSushanth Kamabathulablundersnbuilds.hashnode.devAug 27 · 2 min read

jk Instead of Escape, and Other Muscle Memory I Had to Rewire

Insert mode maps, a leader key, and the small habits that make Neovim actually feel fast. Escape is in the worst possible spot on the keyboard. Top left corner, a hand-stretch away from home row, and

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Three Lines and a Git Clone: How My Whole Config Boots

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Building an IDE Out of Spare Parts

Why I Picked the Newer, Less Popular Autocomplete Engine

Six Months In: What I'd Rip Out and What's Staying

Switching from vscode to lazyvim, and I already have thoughts

A Dashboard Shortcut I Built for a Class I Was Taking

The Plugin That Replaced Eight Others

Keybindings That Only Exist When They're Needed

jk Instead of Escape, and Other Muscle Memory I Had to Rewire