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Good to see configuration improvements

Good to see configuration improvements

Posted Mar 26, 2025 20:55 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104)
Parent article: Neovim 0.11 released

Switching to Neovim as my main editor two years ago was one of the best choices I made in my career. With Neovim experience, I can use plain vim efficiently. Virtually every Linux install has an editor I can use, that's amazing. Using \f for formatting is very useful, I don't have to indent anything.

Yet configuring Neovim was a nightmarish experience. There are tons on guides online, they overlap partly and differ in some details. I'm supposed to install a plugin manager (there are plenty of choices), a package manager, I need to understand the difference between LSP servers and clients, and everybody says I need 5-10 plugins to get the right experience. Many plugins are discontinued and archived on Github, some have newer replacements, others don't. One plugin was archived because its author committed suicide :(

At some point I just stopped messing with configs and decided to get back to it one day. I haven't touched it since.


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Good to see configuration improvements

Posted Mar 27, 2025 1:22 UTC (Thu) by DimeCadmium (subscriber, #157243) [Link]

To be honest, most of that seems true for "plain vim" as well. :)

Good to see configuration improvements

Posted Mar 27, 2025 8:13 UTC (Thu) by bluss (guest, #47454) [Link]

Using a "distribution" or configuration package such as AstroNvim is probably the recommended way to avoid having to configure all the advanced features yourself.


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