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Re: LazyVim

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Post by tlonny »

danjac wrote: post #78

I've been using vim for years, switched to neovim, and at this point I'm ready to throw in the towel and just use vscode for anything beyond simple text editing. The amount of work needed to get a basic IDE up and running for your languages of choice, even for commonly used languages such as Python or Javascript, is far too much for someone who wants to get on with their day job or hobby coding and doesn't want to sp…

Sadly I completely agree with you. Whats even sadder is I recently made a post proselytizing the virtues of neovim over vscode.

The final straw for me was discovering that vscode automatically updates packages and imports when moving files around a java project - something that doesn't seem possible in neovim despite hours of research and lua tinkering.

Re: LazyVim

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Post by achenet »

danjac wrote: post #78

I've been using vim for years, switched to neovim, and at this point I'm ready to throw in the towel and just use vscode for anything beyond simple text editing. The amount of work needed to get a basic IDE up and running for your languages of choice, even for commonly used languages such as Python or Javascript, is far too much for someone who wants to get on with their day job or hobby coding and doesn't want to sp…

I switched to Helix for this reason :)

Re: LazyVim

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Post by altonas »

ziftface wrote: post #246
altonas wrote: post #76

LazyVim got me back into vim. After years of custom configs and/or heavily editing lunarvim and nvChad I was getting a bit burnt out but decided to give lazyVim a try, and I was absolutely blown away. For the first time a vim setup actually felt like a real IDE. It took about 60 seconds to go from having lazyvim installed to having a fully functional IDE that I could use at work in a real environment. That's the same…

That's interesting to me since I've been using close-to-vanilla lunarvim for the past year and it's been great. I'm just not into customizing my editor much, and only touch my config when I'm annoyed by something. This seems to be your goal as well. Can I ask then what makes lazyvim easier or quicker to set up how you want?

I found lunarvim to just not work that well for web development out of the box (if I tried doing anything past vanilla JS), and I have no interest in learning about lunarvim specific things like the lvim global object to be able to tweak it.

Re: LazyVim

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Post by devnullbrain »

noud wrote: post #132

Am I the only one using vanilla vim with a minimal configuration file ( Very easy to setup. Moreover, when I'm on a different computer and open (vanilla) vim without any configurations. I know that everything is more or less the same as my default vim environment. I think it's not that hard to learn developing in the default vim environment, with some minor tweaks. Also related, How to Do 90% of What Plugins Do (With…

Nothing says someone doesn't grok vim like a permanent nerdtree pane.

Re: LazyVim

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Post by majkinetor »

altonas wrote: post #254
majkinetor wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't buy it. I have so many custom little quirks that no ammount of integrated out of the box setup is gonna replace it in 60s. Thats unrealistic. I believe its good, but it must be for certain class of working habits (for example, its probably great for those people that use vanilla anything, including vim).

That's the thing, I absolutely don't want to do a bunch of tiny tweaks. I want to write (react) code. For me personally I feel like tweaking an IDE gets in the way of that. Yet I can take a clean install of lazyvim, use mason to install the react language server, and install copilot, and then I can immediately start working. And so that's what I actually do, and I find that to be much more pleasant (and lightweight)…

Then you musta accept suboptimal UX. Its one way to live your life.

Re: LazyVim

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Post by majjam »

jstanley wrote: post #207
noud wrote: post #132

Am I the only one using vanilla vim with a minimal configuration file ( Very easy to setup. Moreover, when I'm on a different computer and open (vanilla) vim without any configurations. I know that everything is more or less the same as my default vim environment. I think it's not that hard to learn developing in the default vim environment, with some minor tweaks. Also related, How to Do 90% of What Plugins Do (With…

I do roughly this too, except my vimrc is about 8 lines. I type it out from memory every time I use a new machine.

Would you mind sharing it? Im just getting to grips with vim so any pointers towards some simple improvements would be much appreciated.

Re: LazyVim

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Post by marcusramberg »

danjac wrote: post #78

I've been using vim for years, switched to neovim, and at this point I'm ready to throw in the towel and just use vscode for anything beyond simple text editing. The amount of work needed to get a basic IDE up and running for your languages of choice, even for commonly used languages such as Python or Javascript, is far too much for someone who wants to get on with their day job or hobby coding and doesn't want to sp…

Did you actually try LazyVim? It makes this whole process a lot easier, with pre-cooked extras for most popular languages.

Re: LazyVim

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Post by devnullbrain »

pizza wrote: post #55

Best protip I heard about (n)vim customization: use git branches when you want to switch between different configurations. Eg something like: - vanilla/default - minimal - fancy depending on what you want to deal with. If I go months between using all these plugins I forget what they do and what changed and it’s just noisy distractions that invariably lead me to open my init.lua file rather than what I actually had i…

Why not stay in the editor and use `:source`?

Re: LazyVim

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Post by marcusramberg »

arghwhat wrote: post #174
p-e-w wrote: post #148

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> Was that expressly written to parody Vim? Yes. The advice to turn the yoke upside down is supposed to reference remapping Caps Lock to Escape, without which Vim destroys your pinky on a standard keyboard. But it's the choice of professionals, so what can we do?

Trick for those wanting caps lock to be compose instead: ctrl-c also works as escape, and has historically been slightly faster due to sidestepping the escape timeout.

I've remapped caps lock to ctrl with chords and escape when clicked alone. Feel it's the best of both worlds :)

Re: LazyVim

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Post by vladvasiliu »

wolletd wrote: post #141
59nadir wrote: post #130

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JetBrains have excellent offerings for both JavaScript and Python, in my opinion. I happen to like Neovim and I don't use the languages you have issues with the Neovim side of, but if I were to use an alternative it would definitely be JetBrains IDEs.

JetBrains also has a excellent Vim Mode plugin that provides most features I love Vim for.

This is what I use, but it should be noted that vim commands clash with the IDE's shortcuts, so you have to move them around.
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