dotfiles VS LunarVim

I’ve really enjoyed it a lot. I have overwritten the default LSP bindings from nvim-lspconfig to use the go to-preview plugin instead as I find myself mostly just wanting a preview of the reference or definition I’m looking for. If you’d like an example of how to integrate that I can push my changes I’ve made to my dotfiles and share that with you, I just haven’t gotten around to committing the update yet. My LSP setup is here currently

If you’ve got the time and patience, building out a custom config is a fun experience and I think will teach you a lot! There’s quite a few ways to integrate the different tools I mentioned into Neovim, but that plugin should be a good option! Feel free to stalk my dotfiles, Ive been trying to add better comments lately to explain different parts of my config better (for my future self and for any others who check it out).

I don’t believe you need to put “previewer = true” in there at all. You might try removing that. My Telescope setup is here if you’d like to poke around, i use preview by default.

My lua-based nvim config and my dotfiles in general

LunarVim

I would suggest to start getting into vim by first trying out popular vim keybinding plugins available on your favorite code editor and get used to those first. Then, if you want to dive deeper into the power of Neovim, try out popular configs like LazyVim, LunarVim, NvChad... Taking Neovim from a mere text editor to a full-featured IDE with features like intellisense, debugging, testing, etc... on your own takes quite a lot of work and configuration.

I used Helix for a while due to its support for LSP out-of-the-box, which my Vim config at the time couldn't live up to. I switched back to NeoVim after finding LunarVim[1] which had everything I was trying to get setup in my own config.

[1] https://www.lunarvim.org/

I'll admit I didn't look into it, but Helix sounds like something like LunarVim (https://www.lunarvim.org/)

Personally I much prefer that the editor NOT ship with something like that by default, especially when it's so easy to set up. I have several different vim config I use, including a pretty bare-bones one for headless systems, and I much prefer the ability to customize something very specifically.

Build tools that can compose together, rather than a single do-it-all tool. That is the power of the low level editors vs IDE's.

I can't comment on any implementation details, but at least with LunarVim (which I use for daily coding), a slowdown when interacting with LSP is very noticeable. Some others have attested to this on a GitHub issue.

I'm not doubting your experiences with the lack of a slowdown, but there is truth that others do experience it. That might be more of a problem with LunarVim itself rather than Vim, but how likely am I (as someone who would like to avoid what he calls "config hell") or other newcomers to avoid whatever pitfalls there are, if a distribution designed for ease of use by people who know better fall into them?

https://github.com/LunarVim/LunarVim/discussions/3359

Anyways, although i have not used them, LazyVim and LunarVim comes highly recommended. You can try these and see what suits you .