- cross-posted to:
- foss@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- foss@beehaw.org
For all of you, who want to start neovim, or just started (nyself included) than kickstart.nvim is a great start: https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim
And use
vimtutor
I tend to recommend people use the vim plugin for whatever editor or IDE they currently use, with a key combo to enable and disable it. That way there are no big surprises and it still works the way you’re used to - Just with different keyboard controls. And if there’s something you can’t figure out an easy way to do with vim, write down a note somewhere of that thing to research how to do that later.
Seems like a solid approach. I went full send pure nvim for 3 weeks to get over the hump. No config changes or plugins.
This is what i did, started using vim motions in pycharm. I use nvm for small edits, but plan to make it my daily driver soon.
I’ve used nvim as my primary IDE for almost a year at this point and it has revolutionized my workflows in such a crazy way. It feels like I’m editing code at the speed of thought, with the combination of text objects and vim-surround
Helix editor was my gateway drug to neovim. May be helpful to others as well
Funny, I switched from neovim (after a decade of use) to helix…
What made you make the switch?
Well I was spending too much time with configuration, and (this is the main reason I guess) configuration was very often broken, because plugins have changed too often, so I was continuously fixing the plugins, which was time-consuming and annoying. To be fair that was when lua support slowly stabilized, I think the situation got a little bit better, but even more so for helix (I’m using helix now for 2 years I think).
And also helix is fast, very fast (this was also a reason: instant feedback), you really feel, that everything there is done in the core implementation (no plugin system yet unfortunately, but I have almost everything I need currently with helix, unlimited undo + persistent session would be cool, but otherwise I’m happy).
Also after using it a little bit more, the kakoune inspired visual/selection first makes more sense IMO, it’s feels more intuitive (“darn, I miscalculated 3fs, so I’ll just press v and go to the next s manually”, or multiple cursors as selections, you see exactly what you’re doing, no
cgn
or stuff like that)
Neovim is pretty fucking amazing
Sure is!
Started learning vim and used neovim since pre-lsp era (i think before 0.5). Drew’s books are eyes opening and I never had to struggle like the writer.
Then neovim with lua support came out. I dragged my feets to migrate my nvim.init to init.lua.
Tried a few time but never completed the migration. I completed the migration using the LazyVim (like the community aspect of astrovim).