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What's New in Neovim 0.10

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Re: What's New in Neovim 0.10

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Post by LeSaucy »

cyberpunk wrote: post #9
LeSaucy wrote: post #2

I am curious if any of the termsync options can make neovim play nicely with mosh. My dream setup is to be able to spin up preconfigured dev environments in docker containers, and use blink shell on my iPad for on the go coding. Unfortunately mosh and neovim always end up with display corruption.

I used to use blink quite a lot on my iPad and I’ve noticed it really going “weird” lately. They have some script that executed on login, which tried to “upgrade” my connections to mosh by downloading a static mosh bin from some server they own (so, could contain anything) and it was opt out — and lately randomly some keys just stop working on the keyboard (like, the c key just doesn’t work at all in the app). I jump…

I refuse to pay a subscription for a terminal app.

Re: What's New in Neovim 0.10

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Post by linsomniac »

lawn wrote: post #4

Q or @ to execute a macro over all visually selected lines is a feature I didn't know about but sounds amazing. All too often I create a macro that I want to execute many times, but it's hard to know how many. I've tried the guessing approach but that has a tendency to under- or overestimate.

I'll often visual select ("v" and motion) and then ":norm @a" to run the macro on all the selected lines.

Re: What's New in Neovim 0.10

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Post by bbkane »

doix wrote: post #13
trip-zip wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the use case for a separate GUI for neovim? I remember using macvim for a few days maybe 8 years ago, but I never "got it". It felt like the benefits of having my editor in my terminal were thrown out for little return.

If neovim had a proper gui, you could move away from some of the limitations of the terminal. The biggest being using fixed width characters for drawing UI elements. Emacs does it pretty well, one of the few things that makes me jealous of emacs as a vim user.

I'd really like image support in a Neovim GUI.

It'd make markdown editing easier for me

Re: What's New in Neovim 0.10

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Post by linsomniac »

imjonse wrote: post #7
Affric wrote: post #3

Pretty much exactly what is needed. Helix shows the way IMO but the Neovim guys are clearly not conservative. Exciting to see the tree sitter and lsp improvements.

Including more basic (as of 2024) features in the core like Helix would indeed be a good idea but would go against the existing culture of vim with many plugins competing.

That's why I went with LunarVim, I was tired of maintaining my own plugins and configs, and wasn't quite ready to fully jump ship to Helix (though I do like the direction Helix is going, it'd be an easier sell if shells and everything had Helix keymaps).

Re: What's New in Neovim 0.10

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Post by azemetre »

When I first started to learn how to program I was following along a basic tutorial by Jeffrey Way and his first sentence was "We're going to use vim."

That tutorial, whose topic I can't even remember now, set me on a path for my professional career. During 2012-2015 there seemed to be way more competition in the editor space before VS Code gobbled the community mindshare. I remember starting my first professional job and having a coworker to keep pressuring me to use vim because he used emacs and wanted to argue with someone about emacs in the office (all in good fun I assure you :D). I think I started using nvim when 0.2 was release, but then I didn't really do much more with my rc file than what vim offered.

When neovim enabled plugin authoring with lua that's when it felt like the magic of neovim started to click for me. Plugins like telescope, harpoon, and fzf changed the way I fundamentally work now.

Although I think my favorite thing about neovim is watching other people use neovim, I'm always learning new workflows to introduce into my workflows. It sounds tiring, but it doesn't feel tiring if that makes sense?

Really excited to see inlay hints natively as that's something I really struggled to configure myself.

Re: What's New in Neovim 0.10

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Post by linsomniac »

LeSaucy wrote: post #2

I am curious if any of the termsync options can make neovim play nicely with mosh. My dream setup is to be able to spin up preconfigured dev environments in docker containers, and use blink shell on my iPad for on the go coding. Unfortunately mosh and neovim always end up with display corruption.

Does wezterm work on iPad? I used to use mosh+tmux for remote coding, but a couple years ago switched to wezterm which includes some builtin mosh+tmux like capabilities directly in the term so it's truly first-class remote terminal functionality.

Re: What's New in Neovim 0.10

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Post by laktak »

I tried to switch to nvim but quickly discovered that there are breaking changes that just don't work for me, like system() not being interactive and having to use term.

nvim might be great for some but it's not a vim replacement, it's a different editor with different drawbacks.

Re: What's New in Neovim 0.10

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Post by tristan957 »

bbkane wrote: post #17

Wow, I love that so much stuff is coming to core! Every once in a while for the last few years I overhaul my Neovim config and try to add all the new goodies (commenting, LSP, etc., that are table stakes for most IDEs) as plugins using the latest and greatest plugin manager. That works for a while, but like clockwork, something breaks- a plugin updates incompatibly, Neovim updates incompatibly, an external binary the…

I haven't used it, but vscode-neovim might give you the best of both worlds.
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