nvim VS dotfiles

Compare nvim vs dotfiles and see what are their differences.

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nvim dotfiles
68 4
4,433 44
8.9% -
9.0 9.2
19 days ago 6 days ago
Lua Perl
MIT License MIT License
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nvim

Posts with mentions or reviews of nvim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-12.

dotfiles

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-30.
  • Vim 9.0 Was Released
    21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jun 2022
    It depends what kind of person you are, how much energy you want to invest, how much patience you have for stuff that isn't the code you're writing, how much you enjoy editing itself, etc.

    I have a quite extensive setup (https://github.com/Julian/dotfiles/tree/main/.config/nvim) which I built up over 10+ years, indeed sometimes including sitting there for an hour or two and just investigating plugins or writing some function to make editing easier. I enjoy it, and it means I can do lots of things in my setup that involved time investment.

    Others obviously just want to get on with their work.

    To me though part of the reason I use vim/neovim is because anytime something annoys me about editing I can automate it, or find a plugin which has done so already.

  • Recommend config repos that I can use to structure my config?
    25 projects | /r/neovim | 19 Jun 2021
    My (hybrid nvim + vanilla vim for emergency) dotfiles are here: https://github.com/Julian/dotfiles/tree/main/.config/nvim
  • Improving Shell Workflows with Fzf
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Mar 2021
    I have to read through yours which indeed look nice from a quick scan, but if your goal is firstly to save typing file paths, I presume you instead considered just having a shell mapping to do that instead of needing to instrument aliases for each command? Here's mine, which I get by hitting ctrl-s anywhere in any command line: https://github.com/Julian/dotfiles/blob/main/.config/zsh/com...
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Mar 2021
    These are great.

    I'll throw in a fifth, which is I've slowly been cobbling together a simple fuzzy CLI music player (though I use fzy rather than fzf but same idea).

    Code is here: https://github.com/Julian/dotfiles/tree/main/.config/zsh/fun...

    Look at say `artist` or `play` or `shuffle` which are the music ones.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nvim and dotfiles you can also consider the following projects:

rose-pine-theme - All natural pine, faux fur and a bit of soho vibes for the classy minimalist

transparent.nvim - Remove all background colors to make nvim transparent

nvim-transparent - Remove all background colors to make nvim transparent [Moved to: https://github.com/xiyaowong/transparent.nvim]

catppuccin - 😸 Soothing pastel theme for the high-spirited!

dressing.nvim - Neovim plugin to improve the default vim.ui interfaces

tree-sitter-markdown - Markdown grammar for tree-sitter

alacritty - 🌴 Soothing pastel theme for Alacritty

kitty - 😽 Soothing pastel theme for Kitty

kanagawa.nvim - NeoVim dark colorscheme inspired by the colors of the famous painting by Katsushika Hokusai.

xresources - 🐦 Soothing pastel theme for Xresources

NvChad - Blazing fast Neovim config providing solid defaults and a beautiful UI, enhancing your neovim experience.

melange-nvim - 🗡️ Warm color scheme for Neovim and beyond