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Neovim 0.12.0

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Re: Neovim 0.12.0

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Post by himata4113 »

I swapped to neovim and never looked back. I don't even have vscode, jetbrains or anything similar installed anymore.

AI has made it so so easy to get into neovim and make anything work no matter how obscure it is.

The biggest benefit for me which I haven't realized how good it is with tmux and the low low memory usage. I mean I can keep EVERY project I work on open, quickly switch and maintain.

No more 10gb memory usage on a SINGLE project, no more laggy remote access, no more dreading reboots, no more wasting time.

Kernel panic? everything is right there how you left it, honestly it makes me feel so sad because the poor design of IDE's have been such a show-stopper for a LOT of good project designs that I have completely avoided due to introduced complexities that come not to mention how slow things can become.

Now I can just ssh into my pc from a laptop and work, no synchronization, no need to have a beefy laptop and incredible battery life.

Re: Neovim 0.12.0

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Post by kashnote »

The elephant in the room is that there's nothing quite like Cursor Tab. Copilot, Supermaven, Codecompanion, etc. don't even come close. As much as I want to use Neovim full time, I just can't walk away from Cursor Tab. I can live without Cursor Agent since I can just use Claude Code when I need an agent.

Until something comparable for Neovim comes out, I just don't see how I can switch back. I would happily pay for this. I'm sure there are a lot of people in the same boat as me.

Re: Neovim 0.12.0

#134

Post by magguzu »

himata4113 wrote: post #131

I swapped to neovim and never looked back. I don't even have vscode, jetbrains or anything similar installed anymore. AI has made it so so easy to get into neovim and make anything work no matter how obscure it is. The biggest benefit for me which I haven't realized how good it is with tmux and the low low memory usage. I mean I can keep EVERY project I work on open, quickly switch and maintain. No more 10gb memory u…

I use neovim daily but am 100% sure I'm not even scratching the surface of its power. In fact I'm not even sure I'm using anything specific to the "neo" variant vs plain vim.

I can do simple search/replace, page up/down, jump to character or delete x words, but I feel like I'm missing a lot to really take advantage of it.

Is there a tutorial or guide people recommend to become more of a power user? The only plugin I have is the Markdown editor for instance.

Re: Neovim 0.12.0

#135

Post by qudat »

gorjusborg wrote: post #81
imjonse wrote: post #62

It 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.

There is zero reason not to include a picker like helix does. I’m gonna guess 90% of everyone running neovim has a picker

Re: Neovim 0.12.0

#136

Post by jatora »

himata4113 wrote: post #131

I swapped to neovim and never looked back. I don't even have vscode, jetbrains or anything similar installed anymore. AI has made it so so easy to get into neovim and make anything work no matter how obscure it is. The biggest benefit for me which I haven't realized how good it is with tmux and the low low memory usage. I mean I can keep EVERY project I work on open, quickly switch and maintain. No more 10gb memory u…

Use windows and leave kernel panics behind :)

i can tell you dont actually SSH often by tbe way. Also, tmux doesnt magically reduce resource requirements of your applications

Re: Neovim 0.12.0

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Post by Blackthorn »

qudat wrote: post #135
gorjusborg wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There is zero reason not to include a picker like helix does. I’m gonna guess 90% of everyone running neovim has a picker

Does ex not count?

Re: Neovim 0.12.0

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Post by ray_v »

himata4113 wrote: post #131

I swapped to neovim and never looked back. I don't even have vscode, jetbrains or anything similar installed anymore. AI has made it so so easy to get into neovim and make anything work no matter how obscure it is. The biggest benefit for me which I haven't realized how good it is with tmux and the low low memory usage. I mean I can keep EVERY project I work on open, quickly switch and maintain. No more 10gb memory u…

Ok, this sounds awesome, but do you miss the GUI integrations? like , being able to pop a document open in your editor from the desktop?

It just feels like it's hard to nail down your preferred workflow / setup ... but it's likely worth it if you're using it daily!

Are there any good visual or video demos of using this type of setup? I'm having trouble picturing what makes people really love this type of TUI-only workflow.

Re: Neovim 0.12.0

#139

Post by mkozlows »

toisanji wrote: post #28

Is anyone using them vim with Claude or any of these coding tools? I want to, but I haven’t found a good workflow.

I just run them in separate terminals. The only real gap was that I couldn't tell the robot to open files in nvim when I wanted to look at them, the way it could in other IDEs, so I whipped up a quick skill (https://github.com/mkozlows/nvim-skill) to do that.

Re: Neovim 0.12.0

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Post by shimman »

mayli wrote: post #109
cassepipe wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Terminal editors are not WSIWYG applications. I don't think multi-cursor is the correct for a vim motion workflow but I'll admit my vim-fu is not as strong but I get by with the substitute command + grep good enough where I rarely feel the need for a GUI editor to use multi-cursor.

Since VS Code is already an inefficient way to move around a code base, I don't think we should take any lessons seriously outside of how useful the LSP protocol become for adoption.

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