kommentary VS neovim

Indent-blankline to draw indentation guides, nvim-autopairs to automatically complete pairs of brackets and quotes (I didn’t know I couldn’t live without it), nvim-ts-autotag to autocomplete pairs of tags as well, targets.vim to target what is inside or outside the mentioned pairs and vim-surround to manage all those pairs with few keystrokes. Kommentary to comment and uncomment lines of code, nvim-cursorline to help locate where the cursor is and nvim-colorizer because I am cheeky. Vim-abolish is definitely an interesting one. I decided to install it because of its case coercion capabilities, but it can do much more than that.

Here’s an example of a lua plugin with no setup function

The one I use is kommentary.nvim. A) It works, and with embedded code too, but also b) the Lua underneath it is really good. It’s well-commented, tested, and just generally a good resource to learn Lua from (or at least it has been for me.)

A bit unrelated, but I wrote some tests for kommentary that might inspire you to create a test suite for this plugin too.

Dot repeat https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/kommentary/issues/41

I'm still using the tpopes plugin, so I don't really know about the Lua versions 😅. But I have heard good things about kommentary

I've been using b3nj5m1n/kommentary . I's uses are similar to vim-comentary . It has option to use only single line comments . This can be used to avoid /* ... */ . You can try that out .

b3nj5m1n/kommentary is one that is relatively small, but big enough to be interesting. It is also *insanely* well documented and the overall code quality seems good to me.

I need a comment plugin that works in normal mode and virtual mode and accepts count. Neither does kommentary and nvim-comment provide counts, therefore I decided to write one for myself.

I can import this function and use it with all my custom keybindings. However, it doesn't custom keybindings I want to use for the Kommentary plugin.

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.