vim VS neovim

Nord.

vim-plug, nord-vim, lightline

Both Vim [1] and Emacs[2] are on the ports page [0]. In Emacs it's as easy to install as `package-install nord-theme` and then `load-theme nord`. I will note that I tried it out in Emacs running in Windows Terminal and it looks terrible, completely different from the demo and almost unusable - I quickly went back to one of the default themes, tango-dark. This is probably only going to work in the GUI version.

[0] https://www.nordtheme.com/ports

[1] https://www.nordtheme.com/ports/vim

[2] https://www.nordtheme.com/ports/emacs

Looks like Nord

There are no third-party themes in the docs. Most screenshots in Nord Vim's docs show how the theme looks like by default and if this is not the case on your system than the chance it high that your local setup is broken. Also please note that Neovim is currently not a supported application (yet) and the theme is built for "Vanilla" Vim.

There are plenty of other amazing plugins. Also, have fun looking through colorschemes to make vim look pretty! Check out https://vimcolorschemes.com/ or https://github.com/rafi/awesome-vim-colorschemes. I use eva01 (https://github.com/hachy/eva01.vim). Others I've liked are nord (https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord-vim), orbital (https://github.com/fcpg/vim-orbital), and gotham (https://github.com/whatyouhide/vim-gotham).

Recently, I've taken up focusing my early mornings on writing and I'm currently using the Nord theme.

copy your favourite theme (let's say https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord-vim), give it new name, change the colors.

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.

I've recently switched to Neovim, and with it begun using the terminal mouse support. But, this has the side-effect that I can't just click-and-drag to select text in the terminal anymore -- Neovim controls that as well.