From bash to vim and back
I recently ran the following command to get my top 5 most used Bash commands:
$ history | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -5
and here is what came up:
20793 lt
10124 lv
9328 v
8686 j
7243 gst
These are, for the most part – ordinary, everyday commands:
lt
: alias fortree -L 1
v
: alias fornvim
-
j
: alias forjust
, the fabulous command runner gst
: alias forgit status
What I assume isn’t so obvious is lv
, which stands for
‘last vim’. lv
is an alias for the command
nvim -c "normal '0" -c bd1
, which opens the last opened
file at the last cursor position in a new Neovim buffer.
To break the command down a bit:
nvim
: the Neovim binary-
-c <cmd>
: Execute<cmd>
after config and first file -
normal '0
: The last set cursor position and file bd1
: Delete the first buffer
I use
Neovim
alot, and sometimes I quit the editor to run some arbitrary Bash
command. Without having to search for the previously opened file, I
invoke lv
, which gets me back to where I was at.
From bash to vim and back, in a flash.
I'm Liam.
I am an incoming honours math/compsci undergrad @ mcgill, programmer and rationalist.
Send me a message by email: liam [at] scalzulli.com or matrix: worse:matrix.org