Whenever I’ve tried turning vim into something that starts approximating a big, actual IDE I have grown unhappy with it. I’ve come around to the conclusion that when I want an IDE, I’ll just use an IDE.
But usually, I just want a very good text editor, and neovim with some well-chosen plugins is just that.
happy belated birthday, Oskar! i’ve been working in Neovim a lot more the last 2 years & recently i’ve been looking to improve my workflow a bit so this is a really timely write up.
thanks for all the info, i’ll probably be folding some of it into my own config.
Happy birthday!
Even put a but of foreshadowing with “maybe I’m just growing old” ;)
Interesting to read what works for others, even if I don’t use neovim.
Thank you!
This post has inspired me to pare down my bloated nvim config, and get back to the speed and productivity that I switched for in the first place!
As a side note, what is the font that you are using? It looks really nice.
Looks to be Input Mono. It is indeed a really nice font.
Awesome to hear! Good luck on the quest.
The blog fonts are Inter and IBM Plex Mono. The terminal font (in Alacritty) is Jetbrains Mono.
Thanks for calling out quiet theme being in nvim! Exactly what I wanted, didn’t know it was there.
Oh that’s great! I just found it as well.
“Here we go again”
I had gone through this cycle once, but I think it’s time for another round :D
Good article
Never too late to change editors again. 😁
Oh, I am circling between enough editors already. Can’t get rid of vim but don’t want to bloat it trying to match intellij.
Whenever I’ve tried turning vim into something that starts approximating a big, actual IDE I have grown unhappy with it. I’ve come around to the conclusion that when I want an IDE, I’ll just use an IDE.
But usually, I just want a very good text editor, and neovim with some well-chosen plugins is just that.
I second this. Some languages do very well with “just” a text editor, while others really force you towards an IDE.
LSP bridges that divide somewhat, but I’ve written lots of Kotlin for the past 5 years and it just sucks without IntelliJ.
I’m glad when I can work in languages that don’t require IDEs.
I feel this! My Neovim config has accumulated a lot of gunk again, so I’ll probably also go through another round when I have time.
Looks like weekend activity is sorted, but I am not going to spend more than 30 minutes 😂
happy belated birthday, Oskar! i’ve been working in Neovim a lot more the last 2 years & recently i’ve been looking to improve my workflow a bit so this is a really timely write up.
thanks for all the info, i’ll probably be folding some of it into my own config.
Thanks a lot, Joe! Nice to hear from you! And I’m glad if the blog is useful for you.