Vim 9.0

Post by f1refly » Fri, Jul 01, 2022, 7:53 AM UTC

azemetre wrote: post #32

threatofrain wrote: post #24

Does anyone have a good from-scratch setup guide for Neovim?

What do you want to do? My best advice would be to search up some dot files from people you may follow on GitHub. There are all kinds of configs, but typically just fork someone’s you like then make minor tweaks. Here’s mine, I also linked the three people I copied from in my read me: https://github.com/azemetre/dotfiles

Post by OJFord » Fri, Jul 01, 2022, 7:58 AM UTC

sbf501 wrote: post #167

imron wrote: post #166

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tabstop is how far the cursor moves when you press tab. shiftwidth is how far text moves when you shift it with >> or Normally you'd set them both to the same value so that indenting blocks of code with >> or There's also another setting 'shiftround' (which I only learnt about today in another comment) which makes shifts done with > round themselves to the nearest multiple of shiftwidth.

i've always used 0i\t\t\t\t...\esc to shift. never occurred to me to use >>. probably because the three keystroke savings didn't register with me. but that's what I mean, once I learn the basics, the rest are just gravy that don't stick in my memory.

Post by viccuad » Fri, Jul 01, 2022, 8:04 AM UTC

anonydsfsfs wrote: post #140

jonaustin wrote: post #111

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Vim has been around long enough that I'd argue it's just as much owned by the community at this point.

I just checked the repo[0], and it says Bram has authored 95% of all commits to Vim. To say "the community owns Vim" when they've done ~5% of the work reminds me of group projects in school where one person does all the work and everyone else claims credit. [0] https://github.com/vim/vim

Post by ur-whale » Fri, Jul 01, 2022, 8:17 AM UTC

threatofrain wrote: post #10

Diederich wrote: post #6

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I've been using vi/vim on a near daily basis for 34 years now and this is the only thing I put in ~/.vimrc: set tabstop=4 set expandtab set shiftwidth=4 " or 2 or whatever set shiftround syntax on EDIT: Just for some fun archeology, I google searched on the 3rd line, 'set shiftwidth=4 " or 2 or whatever' because I very dimly recall copying most of my standard set (minus the syntax on bit) from someone else a long lon…

No line numbers? @_@

Post by LeonidasXIV » Fri, Jul 01, 2022, 8:20 AM UTC

kelnos wrote: post #147

anonydsfsfs wrote: post #140

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I just checked the repo[0], and it says Bram has authored 95% of all commits to Vim. To say "the community owns Vim" when they've done ~5% of the work reminds me of group projects in school where one person does all the work and everyone else claims credit. [0] https://github.com/vim/vim

I'm not sure this is because no one wants to contribute. I think it's more because Moolenar prefers to do the work himself, and doesn't like to accept much in the way of contributions from others. He's certainly allowed to run his project that way, but I can see why it might turn some people off.