VIM Recommendations

General Tips

• Use gnu stow to manage dotfiles

GIT

• Use toggleTerm with lazygit for quick actions with git repos, branches, commit views.

DiffviewFileHistory

• To find code author : Don't git blame, as it often shows reformatted and only the latest changes author.
• When in need to find the who actually put in the change in a particular file, the following is useful:

:DiffviewFileHistory %<cr>`

Language/Framework specific

Angular

Angular has components, which usually have a .ts, .html, .css/scss and spec files. Use the following function to alternate/rotate between the same components files.

function()
  local bufname = vim.fn.expand "%:t:r"
  local bufext = vim.fn.expand "%:e"
  local bufdir = vim.fn.expand "%:p:h"
  local altfile = bufdir .. "/" .. bufname .. (bufext == "ts" and ".html" or ".ts")
  if vim.fn.filereadable(altfile) == 1 then
    vim.cmd("edit " .. altfile)
  else
    print "No alternate file found"
  end
end,