Re:I miss Vim
by user432678 on Saturday February 01, 2025 @03:33AM
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I felt the same around a couple of years ago. One day my giant and fragile config got broken beyond repair — I was using package manager without version pinning, my fault essentially. After spending a few days trying to figure which versions of 30+ plugins should work together and also use the settings I had in init.lua (many plugins just deprecated their own settings), I realised I don’t ever want to spend time on this. Went full opposite — installed Vim, found my vimrc from pre-Neovim era, removed all the plugins and happily using it since then, just stuff vim has out of the box.
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Re:I miss Vim
by dailykoder on Saturday February 01, 2025 @03:41AM
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I understand your and OP's situation and I got overwhelmed by all the fancy plugins myself. But then I realized: Hey, I can just use neovim like vanilla vim and don't have to get the next best plugin when it comes out.
I think it happened when I tried out Mason, too. And it didn't feel like an improvement. So I scrapped my config and started a new one. With Lazy (because that's actually nice), Telescope and a few LSPs I need/want. That's mostly it. You don't have to get much fancier than that. (obviously including some basic vim settings and keymaps, but that's just like in vanilla vim, but in lua)
Couldn't you just have used your old vimrc with Neovim?
Re:I miss Vim
by user432678 on Saturday February 01, 2025 @04:31AM
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Well, technically yes, but I also felt like “oh, I can use GVim/MacVim gui”, “oh I can just use built-in colour scheme Sorbet that looks nice”. And also having vanilla Vim saves me from “oh this one lua plugin seems nice, one plugin won’t hurt”. You are right, I sound like the opposite extreme case of having hundreds of plugins. But that’s how I am right now, enjoying old school Vim, have it easily available on any server/VM I manage and my config is a single 88-lines file.