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What's New in Neovim 0.10
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Re: What's New in Neovim 0.10
#82As a decade long vim user, I just gave nvim a try this year, and I really wanted to like it. In most every way it is a straight upgrade, but I find myself kind of bummed out that it is still so barebones on install. Really, I was hoping that something like Lazyvim would be the default because I would love a more "out-of-the-box" solution. I don't want to have to worry about keeping the LSP etc. up to date. So instead…
you should use neovim distributions like LazyVim.
I did use Lazyvim. It was definitely better (though I spent a fortune in time modularizing is plugins).
It just doesn't feel like a great solution for a variety of reasons. You're still a little on the hook for plugins and LSP configs. You're beholden to the distro e.g. if Lazy ever grows obsolete, Lazyvim could go too.
In a perfect world there would be a neovim core (what it is now) and a formal neovim distro.
Re: What's New in Neovim 0.10
#83Earlier 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.
I mostly work on macOS nowadays, and I like macvim. Of course there are plenty of Neovim GUI. Currently happy enough with VimR.
+1 for VimR
Re: What's New in Neovim 0.10
#84Wow. Almost all of these are things that I will be using right away. It's not often that a release, especially one for software that has lineage back decades, is so relevant to my use cases. I already had `K` set to LSP hover. I just switched my comment plugin to get something LSP aware. Hyperlinks can be a bit annoying. Because sometimes the line wraps so default terminal auto-linking doesn't work properly. Having e…
I feel exactly the same - I've never been so pleasantly surprised by release notes.
Immediate wins for current users. And hopefully these builtin QOL features will make nvim easier for new users.
Re: What's New in Neovim 0.10
#85Re: What's New in Neovim 0.10
#86I have been transitioning my workflow from macOS to Linux. Discovered it’s kind of pain in the ass to get a gui based editor like Intellij to work correctly, especially within a VM. Happened to have discovered neovim, and so far it’s been a delight to use. Much faster and much lighter on resource use. Do any neovim veterans have recommendations on plugins to enable? Or even hidden features that would improve workflow…
I usually recommend new users to check out Kickstart. It contains a set of plugins and nice to haves so you don't have to discover them your self. All plugins are in one file + has a lot of comments to help you get started. ref: https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim
I second Kickstart! The single-file and comments make it easy to learn and configure yourself.
Re: What's New in Neovim 0.10
#87Re: What's New in Neovim 0.10
#88When 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 jo…
> because he used emacs and wanted to argue with someone about emacs in the office
That's weird to me as in more than 20+ years I don't think I've ever been around people arguing that in real life. It's always been more of a meme to me than anything real.
Re: What's New in Neovim 0.10
#89Re: What's New in Neovim 0.10
#90For everyone asking for more IDE features...that's literally a non-goal for Neovim:
Neovim aims to be extensible and enable plugins to do amazing things, but also be minimal.
There are many projects that use the rich set of plugins to provide IDE experiences (LazyVim, AstroNvim, LunarVim, etc).