Wow, I’m surprised that there is not a single post in here yet. Let’s this to be the first one. I’m using NeoVIM tbh but we all know where we came from, right ?
I see half a dozen older posts, but all of them are a couple weeks old
I use a vim fork that adds clipboard functionality. That is all.
It’s built into neovim now I think.
Well, I was using nvim, until I had to start working on some legacy servers at work, which only have an old version of vim
I copy over the nvim.appimage places where I need to do real editing on remote machines
I did not know you could do that! I work on several hosts that do not allow me to install (via their package manager) software, but if all I have to do is scp an appimage file and run it, then that problem may be solved!
I’ve been a vim user for years. What’s the benefit of using Neovim?
Async, so a few things don’t block. If you have a plugging manager that updates, you can work while it does its thing. Clipboard is set up by default. The big thing was the code itself was refractored so more than just Bram can work on it.
Having language server support built in ir nice, and using lua as a plugin/configuration language is pretty nice (but I haven’t looked at the new vim9 script stuff)
yes, I think you’ve listed all major benefits here :-).
I had moved to Neovim but kept my config and plugins in Vimscript “just in case”.
Then Neovim dropped cscope which is my primary use for Vim, so I came back to regular Vim.
bouncing around the few thousand nodes split between prem and in a cloud I’m stuck with the standard vim that ships with rhel
There had been posts here, but we might be getting hit with this issue: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/602126
I use vim daily for my software engineering job. I love its versatility, availability, and keyboard focus. But I’m a bit stuck as far as learning new commands, I probably should push through some new vim learnings to streamline stuff I do regularly.
The way I got into using more advanced stuff was https://archive.org/details/viimprovedvim0000oual But other good things are https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=develop.example.beta1139.vimmaster and just reading the docs.
Stack overflow has people ask how do I X with vim, and pretty consistently you’ll discover some new way to do things.
Basically, if you find yourself doing something often, expect that someone else did in the post and made a better way in vim.
Here is a good one to start with. https://medium.com/usevim/vim-101-virtual-editing-661c99c05847
I’m a recent (within the past year) Neovim convert as well. As others have mentioned, the language server support and ability to use Lua for my configs were the big draws. I’m also a sucker for a good theme (something I swap out on the regular) and ran into a few that require Lua, meaning they can only be used with Neovim.
