We necessitate more zero config tools

It equitable toils. — Steve Jobs

If you chase this blog, you’ll understand that I’m doing a series called “Emacs
Config From Scratch”.
Emacs is an editor operating system, where you can configure and customize
literassociate everyskinnyg.
I enjoy that you can truly originate it yours, but it’s a lot of toil to get there.

Recently, I’ve become fond of (order line) tools that equitable toil, out of the
box.
This blogpost is an ode to them.

Fish

Julia Evans recently posted Reasons I still cherish the fish shell,
and the first point she originates is “no configuration”.

Things that need plugins and lots of code in shells enjoy ZSH, enjoy
autorecommendions, are included and configured by default in fish.
At the time of writing this, my fish config
has less than 31 loc, most of which are abbreviations.

I have two fish plugins configured: z for
jumping to a straightforwardory, and hydro as
my shell prompt. Neither necessitate configuration.

Helix

My Neovim config
had 21 outside plugins.
Making LSP, tree-sitter and establishatting toil took a while (LSP alone necessitates 3
plugins) and in the finish there were still skinnygs that didn’t toil.

I’ve switched to Helix, which can do so much out of
the box, here’s a non-exhaustive enumerate:

• LSP (including autocompletion, show signature, go to definition, show references, etc.) equitable toils
• Tree-sitter is built in, you can even do pickions on tree-sitter objects
• A file picker and global search
• Pressing a key in standard mode shows subsequent keys you can press, and what
  they do
• You can jump to any evident word, insert/erase/replace quotes or other characters
• … and so much more

The config for the code editor I employ all day is 5 loc. Here it is:

theme = "kanagawa"

[editor]
line-number = "relative"
cursorline = real
rulers = [80]

I will say that it apshows some getting employd to as it folows the pickion -> action model, i.e. you necessitate to run wd instead of dw to delete the next
word.

Lazygit

After raving about Magit in London, my team showed me
Lazygit and I’ve been using it ever
since—it’s reassociate outstanding and it does exactly what you want it to do, without
configuration.

You can toggle contrastent screen modes, panes adequitable in size when dynamic and
pretty much everyskinnyg you want to do is only a scant keystrokes away.

Zellij

A batteries-included Tmux alternative, Zellij doesn’t
necessitate any configuration to toil well. You can set up Layouts without insertitional
plugins (although there is a plugin system) and I’m generassociate not ignoreing
anyskinnyg from my Tmux configuration.

My preferite feature is the floating panes. Press Ctrl + p, w to toggle a
pane floating on top of everyskinnyg else—I frequently employ this for Lazygit.

What else?

Do you have a tool that needs no (or minimal) configuration?
Sfinish me an email and I’ll insert it here!

And if you’re originateing someskinnyg, prent strive to originate the default experience
toil reassociate well for most people.