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Vim allows you to format text with an arbitrary external program with the :h gq operator. For example, say you want to format with prettier, you just need to set :h 'formatprg' option to npx prettier --stdin-filepath %, and gqip will format the paragraph with it (it also works if you select the text first and then use gq – vipgq).

The details HTML element doesn’t seem to work well when used as a controlled component in React, as pointed out in this open GitHub issue. At first, I thought it was a React bug, but at the end of my investigation while writing this, I concluded it’s simply a mistake – not having a single source of truth for state.

In this post I want to share my favorite custom git commands – from aliases to shell scripts.

Vim has this well-known feature of opening the path under cursor with :h gf. This article explains well how this works.

Getting Python syntax highlighting to work in Vim requires very little code, to my surprise.

Ah, errorformat, the feature everybody loves to hate. :) – lcd047, on Stack Overflow

I really like Vim’s :h errorformat feature, but only when I manage to get it right. Until then, I’m sure it will frustrate me more than once. It’s very awkward to write one if the program’s output you’re trying to capture is not trivial (e.g., LaTeX).