tools

I’ve started to use Neovim for writing text but also for putting up the occasional script

A few days ago, I decided to give Emacs another try. I’ve previously attempted to use this text-editor / operating system — probably about 10 years ago or maybe a bit more — but never got the hang of it. A few years after my first try at Emacs, I discovered Markdown. Since then, I’ve used text editors with a GUI to write in this markup language. That was until two years ago when I encountered a Vim mode for Markdown and adapted it to my specific needs....

With no special order: Desktop environments and/or window managers plasma (to me, the best desktop environment for any free software operating system) i3wm (paired with picom [https://github.com/ibhagwan/picom] for transparency, blur and rounded corners) Terminal emulators konsole (I’ve grown very fond if this terminal emulator since I switched to the plasma desktop, and it has blur for the blings ;)) urxvt-unicode (with tabbedex, so I can have tabs with it) Text editors micro (my favorite and because it supports gui keybinds, although it’s a cli text editor) nano (simple and super useful, available by default in a lot of linux distributions) vim (I have a custom mode for writing markdown text) gedit (for when I need a text editor with a gui) Note taking qownnotes Browsers firefox (my favorite for around a decade and an half....

I’ve been looking for a simple but powerful solution for managing my dotfiles, either the ones on my personal computer or the ones I use on virtual machines. After taking a look at a few options, I think I’ll give dotdrop a try and publish a new post as soon as I feel I’ve evaluated it enough.