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Vim Macros for Beancount
Vim macros for beancount
configuration, software, scripts and logs on remote systems small datasets commit message entries piping into the quickfix/location list and iterating over: merge request comments software compiler errors code lint errors grep search results I am able to use vim efficiently for these tasks remotely because I also practice using it on my local machine for most text based work, except for programming strongly typed, object oriented programming languages because I have never figured out how to get fast doc/api access and automatic code formatting features working well enough in those contexts without sacrificing the thing I like most about vim which is the speed at which I can translate what I am thinking into keyboard inputs, and still have vim's poor, overworked single thread keep up with me on my Intel 5th gen i3 from 2015. This is fun, but we've got lots of jam accounting to do, and this number of keypresses will surely result in some sort of repetitive strain injury, so we will move on to creating vim macros. The auto scrolling buffers, the endless stream of transactions appearing from the bottom of the screen make this feel more like some weird game of frogger finance than actual book-keeping.
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