With its own package manager now, and LSP library, you really don't need a lot of config tweaking for a minimal vim setup these days.
Neovim 0.12.0
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Re: Neovim 0.12.0
#102Up next for 0.13: multiple cursors! I have no idea what I'd do with this feature but it sounds intriguing. https://neovim.io/roadmap/
Multi cursor support in VSCode replaced 98% of my need for macros. Yes, macros are more powerful, but they are pretty easy to get wrong. With multiple cursors, it's far easier to spot where your inputs don't work out and adjust accordingly. Multi cursor is the feature that increased my productivity the most across the board.
Without meaning to sound like the “friendship ended” meme, I was a heavy user of macros in vim and neovim. It was probably my favourite feature. After I switched to Helix, I began using multiple cursors and now those are my favourite feature, I barely use macros anymore. Being able to see your movements live and intelligently using multiple clipboard is not just powerful, it’s fun too and rewards well-designed code.
Re: Neovim 0.12.0
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am so used to sed-style, regex powered find/replace, that this use admittedly never occured to me. As a result, multi-cursor seemed mostly useless outside of pair programming that I never do. I will have to try it out once it lands in neovim just to see if I can wrap my muscle memory around it.
For me the nice thing about multiple cursors is when it would take more time to write the regex than it does to just throw down say 8 cursors and update the spots.
How do you place the cursors then?
Re: Neovim 0.12.0
#104Up next for 0.13: multiple cursors! I have no idea what I'd do with this feature but it sounds intriguing. https://neovim.io/roadmap/
Looking forward to multiple cursors… but Vim/Neovim can already do some of the common use-cases for multiple cursors, like prepending (or appending) text to a bunch of lines using visual block mode [1].
Here’s a video example [2]:
[1]: https://neovim.io/doc/user/usr_10/#_visual-block-mode
[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/jai57c/the_usefulness_...
Re: Neovim 0.12.0
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Multi cursor support in VSCode replaced 98% of my need for macros. Yes, macros are more powerful, but they are pretty easy to get wrong. With multiple cursors, it's far easier to spot where your inputs don't work out and adjust accordingly. Multi cursor is the feature that increased my productivity the most across the board.
Forget macros and multi-cursor. (Regex) substitutions from vim's command line replaced 98% of my editing needs and rendered a lot of my vim-fu useless. (Just like searching with / replaced 98% of my navigation) Editing something without having to actually place the cursor anywhere is a killer feature Also neovim can show you your substitutions live, no need for a plugin anymore. It's the default.
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Re: Neovim 0.12.0
#106It probably goes against Vim tradition, culture and freedom to choose, but I wish they added even more built-in features (like Helix) that are currently implemented in competing and sometimes brittle plugins and have to be put together into also competing vim starter packs and distros of plugins and config files just to have a modern setup out of the box.
I agree in principle that absorbing the best from the ecosystem is good. However, anything pulled into core should have a long lifetime and be considered part of the API. This deserves careful consideration, and plugins work really well until it is clear there is a reason to pull something in.
Not to talk about the other side of the holy war too much, but one of the things I appreciate about GNU ELPA is it's treated as part of the Emacs distribution and needs to follow all the rules of Emacs proper as a result.
Re: Neovim 0.12.0
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Multi cursor support in VSCode replaced 98% of my need for macros. Yes, macros are more powerful, but they are pretty easy to get wrong. With multiple cursors, it's far easier to spot where your inputs don't work out and adjust accordingly. Multi cursor is the feature that increased my productivity the most across the board.
Forget macros and multi-cursor. (Regex) substitutions from vim's command line replaced 98% of my editing needs and rendered a lot of my vim-fu useless. (Just like searching with / replaced 98% of my navigation) Editing something without having to actually place the cursor anywhere is a killer feature Also neovim can show you your substitutions live, no need for a plugin anymore. It's the default.
Word Bro! Regex is so simple to read and easy to get right... and its like if Immanuel Kant wrote find and replace, yeah, learn a new language to do a single function... yEAH! 98% Bro!
I'd marry Regex if I could (but if we got divorced it would be my exregex [which is almost a palindrome!] Bro!)
Re: Neovim 0.12.0
#108Is anyone using them vim with Claude or any of these coding tools? I want to, but I haven’t found a good workflow.
Just open a terminal split/tab and use claude there. The neovim buffer will update real-time.
Re: Neovim 0.12.0
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Multi cursor support in VSCode replaced 98% of my need for macros. Yes, macros are more powerful, but they are pretty easy to get wrong. With multiple cursors, it's far easier to spot where your inputs don't work out and adjust accordingly. Multi cursor is the feature that increased my productivity the most across the board.
Forget macros and multi-cursor. (Regex) substitutions from vim's command line replaced 98% of my editing needs and rendered a lot of my vim-fu useless. (Just like searching with / replaced 98% of my navigation) Editing something without having to actually place the cursor anywhere is a killer feature Also neovim can show you your substitutions live, no need for a plugin anymore. It's the default.
Bro, not every guy/girl is a regex master, multi-cursor is a much better UI/UX wysiwyg editor for everyday users.
Re: Neovim 0.12.0
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me the nice thing about multiple cursors is when it would take more time to write the regex than it does to just throw down say 8 cursors and update the spots.
How do you place the cursors then?
In vim?
Ctrl+v, 8, j, shift+i, add the text, Esc.
Which works if you need to edit several aligned lines in a row. The one thing I'm missing is putting the cursors on the next found position of a search term which would make it much more useful.