nvim-lazyman VS pvim

I made Github Pages from some of my repositories. It's a nice feature, thanks!

$NVIM_APPNAME might help if the distro's file structure doesn't work with your git model (like, AstroNvim wants you to use a sub-theme-thing for your personal config customizations, and this might not be graceful to implement as just a separate git branch). https://gist.github.com/elijahmanor/b279553c0132bfad7eae23e34ceb593b has some shell functions using nvim_appname for easily switching between different config repos and even https://github.com/doctorfree/nvim-lazyman for trying out different distros.

I haven't posted much about lazyman because I'm busy working on it and it is changing rapidly. Also, as you can see, a lot of my time is spent dreaming up Neovim configuration management fantasies.

There are many excellent distributions, personal configurations, and custom configurations to study. I wrote a Neovim configuration manager to make it easy for me to install, initialize, and explore multiple Neovim configurations. Most of the popular Neovim distributions and configurations are supported in this tool.

I'm also a fan of these preconfigured Neovim configurations. I've learned a lot by exploring many of them. To help me install and initialize multiple Neovim configurations I wrote Lazyman, a Neovim configuration manager. Currently Lazyman supports over 40 Neovim configurations.

This one has a good collection of configs, from simple to complicated: doctorfree/nvim-lazyman

See https://github.com/doctorfree/nvim-lazyman for info on Lazyman.

Currently lazyman supports Neovim configurations using the Lazy, Packer, and vim-plug plugin managers. Not all Neovim configurations install and initialize cleanly. Some have hard-coded paths assuming ~/.config/nvim as the configuration location. Others do not initialize cleanly from the command line (nvim --headless ...). However, many configurations not supported out-of-the-box by lazyman can be installed and initialized. If you find an interesting configuration that works well with Lazyman or if your favorite config does not initialize cleanly with Lazyman then open an issue at https://github.com/doctorfree/nvim-lazyman/issues

Psst. I made pvim for exactly this purpose (originally, it's expanded since then)

Shameless plug for a setup that uses -u and all the config that has to go with it

Anyways I see that there is https://github.com/RoryNesbitt/pvim but I don't know if it has much traction or if there are problems. I'm not too familiar with what AppImages are. If anyone could let me know what the easiest way to create a portable version of my nvim setup that I can just drop on a remote machine that would be great.

A This Week in Neovim PR for this news may already exist: - PR - Referenced Repo

pvim is a portable vim wrapper for packer based configs. it intends to contain everything to the one directory and if needed grab the neovim app image.