cool-substitute.nvim VS neovim

For a while now, I have been seeing discussions about the multiple cursors feature only in the context of replacing words. Especially when people mention multiple cursors in 500 bytes of Vimscript! blogpost and there is even a cool-substitute plugin (nice work btw.) in which readme we can read: "Can easily replace multiple-cursors". I don't know how all people work. The word substitution may be the primary and most common feature of MC, but it is also the least useful one. MC shines when it comes to writing small macros (for big things, I still prefer the real vim macros). I have real-time visual feedback - no more fixing or rerecording broken macros - and I can even use autocompletion during it.

As a software engineer, choosing and understanding your text editor is important part of your work, as it impacts your productivity and workflow efficiency. It's like choosing the perfect tool for any trade - you need to know what tool to use and how to use it effectively if you want to excel. For me, I use Neovim as my editor and I have been using it for a little over a year now.

This got me thinking about my recent pivot, my switch to Neovim by way of LazyVim to write most of my code, and using tmux to keep terminal states alive after closing a session.

Neovim: Make sure you have Neovim installed on your system. You can check the official website for installation instructions: https://neovim.io/ Git: We'll be using Git to clone the LazyVim starter pack. If you don't have Git, you can download it from https://git-scm.com/downloads

There are several ways to install Neovim. This wiki provides several guidelines on how to install Neovim.

All these thoughts I've shared, I would have them on occasion - but ever since I switched to Linux and Neovim, my curiosity has been through the roof. Switching over to Neovim and Linux was a not so fun weekend of configuration and spending half a day getting my work's local dev environment running on my new OS (which no one has tested development on). But I now have a deeper understanding of the tools I use, and have a text editor configured to be the most optimal for the way I want to use it.