However, I do still run visual studio in parallel for debugging. It's basically essential when dealing with console game development.
I can do simple search/replace, page up/down, jump to character or delete x words, but I feel like I'm missing a lot to really take advantage of it.
Is there a tutorial or guide people recommend to become more of a power user? The only plugin I have is the Markdown editor for instance.
Also just use the mouse! Lazyvim has great support for it.
<leader>SK is your friend as well.
I feel like the habit I’ve benefited the most from on my neovim journey has been reaching for :h before doing any web search. Good completion in the command-line helps a lot there.
I'd also suggest kickstart.nvim over Lazyvim as its leaner with a primary file for configuration it is not lacking power.
Whats your source?
My mileage was quite different: last time I tried, scrolling too fast with the mouse wheel consistently caused a segfault.
Not sensible. completely insane.
nvim has a lot of "fun" plugins that you wouldn't actually use so I think you might have ran into that.
It just feels like it's hard to nail down your preferred workflow / setup ... but it's likely worth it if you're using it daily!
Are there any good visual or video demos of using this type of setup? I'm having trouble picturing what makes people really love this type of TUI-only workflow.
I typically have a terminal-heavy workflow so it's very rare that I'm browsing to files from within my desktop, but if I am using Dolphin to look for a file I have a "Open terminal here" shortcut and then I'll usually just run "nvim doc.md".
Why not give it a try? You'll likely find that there's an adjustment period and you can always switch back to your old editor if you don't like it. The beauty of it is that you can build it into whatever IDE you want instead of having useless features shoved into your IDE whether you use them or not.
This kind of setup is at its most powerful when you live on the command line though. For instance, you need to modify .py files across multiple projects that mention a certain variable, have a certain word in their name, and were modified within the last month.
That search is a bit easier in bash/zsh than it is in most IDEs and the strength of vim/neovim is the shell integration.
Just use a fuzzy file finder within the terminal or within vim itself.
The nice thing is that I rely only on the keyboard, no need to point with the mouse. It may not be faster, but typing is sequential and there’s no context switching. So muscle memory helps a lot. Just like you don’t think about each character when you write, I don’t really think about the shortcuts and commands I use.
Another thing I picked up from my time with emacs was making keybinds to interact with the "other" window. One macro I use often will delete the second line of the file in my current window, save, change to the other window, delete second line, save, change back to original window. When activated from keybind it all happens approximately instantly. I also have some binds to jump to the top of the other window's file (without leaving my cursor stuck over there) and so on, letting me keep my cursor in the main area most of the time.
Also the buffer’s local variable in vim comes from different sources. In emacs, a lot of stuff are tied to a major or minor mode. You only have to toggle them to switch between keybinds, syntax,…
There's a hackish way to do it by watching for Neovim command line commands that start with "/Users/" (change it if you are on other OS).
Your coding agent can probably hack something up based on:
`//Hackish supports drag and drop files into Neovim by examining when command line starts with "/Users/".`
My setup looks something like this:
|ai |nvim |git view |
|___| |________ |
|ai | |terminal |
| |(proj selector)| |
for AI I found oh-my-pi from can1357 it's magical how good it is. It was a top rated post on HN awhile back.
i can tell you dont actually SSH often by tbe way. Also, tmux doesnt magically reduce resource requirements of your applications
You're right. I don't use SSH that often due to kubernetes, infact I only use ssh for connecting to my desktop to access my tmux sessions and it's great. I know where you're trying to go with this and it's simply not true.
Who said anything about tmux? We're talking about neovim which is extremely light weight and the LSP's don't sit around being active all the time. They have a set duration where they terminate when unused which is simply not possible in most IDE's (LSP based ones are OK, but have problems reconnecting).
and kernel panics are exceedingly rare on windows. i havent BSOD'd in eons
I haven't had a kernel panic once on reliable hardware. Linux is way more stable than windows device drivers and progressively less reliable graphics drivers.
"yes I mentioned tmux as"
lol. good day
This isn't right. It was certainly true in the nineties, but I haven't seen one in years on Windows and I spend many hours a day in it both for work and play.
AI has made it so so easy to get into neovim and make anything work no matter how obscure it is.
The biggest benefit for me which I haven't realized how good it is with tmux and the low low memory usage. I mean I can keep EVERY project I work on open, quickly switch and maintain.
No more 10gb memory usage on a SINGLE project, no more laggy remote access, no more dreading reboots, no more wasting time.
Kernel panic? everything is right there how you left it, honestly it makes me feel so sad because the poor design of IDE's have been such a show-stopper for a LOT of good project designs that I have completely avoided due to introduced complexities that come not to mention how slow things can become.
Now I can just ssh into my pc from a laptop and work, no synchronization, no need to have a beefy laptop and incredible battery life.