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vim-be-good
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Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
Sure! The first thing I did was follow this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7i4amO_zaE
This is ThePrimeagen's 0 to LSP, Neovim RC from Scratch. In this video he performs a clean installation of Neovim and goes step by step adding the things he considers essential. This was very important for me to acquaint myself with how things work, how to install plugins, how to define custom key maps. I remember the first times I tried using Vim, I couldn't figure out how to get Nerdtree to work. This video made me realize I just lacked the knowledge of how Vim config works.
This video was such a good start because It provided me with the tools to continue my exploration of Vim autonomously. In a week I was already able to install new plugins and tweak them using Lua config files the way I specifically wanted. It's such a cool experience!
Keep in mind that both the author of this video and I use Neovim, which is a fork of Vim. As a text editor they both function essentially the same. The difference lies on the config files and in broader UI capabilities by Neovim. While Vim uses Vimscript, Neovim prefers Lua, although Neovim is fully backwards compatible, so you can choose to use Vimscript for your configuration if you want as well. This also means that Vim plugins just work with Neovim!
The docs are also a huge source of knowledge for me. In the beginning I resorted to :help key-codes a lot when defining key mappings.
To learn the Vim motions, which is the most challenging part of using Vim, I suggest you find a cheatsheet online and refer to it all the time. One very cool plugin that will help you get comfortable with Vim motions is ThePrimeagen's VimBeGod: https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/vim-be-good. It's a set of game-like exercises to practice the motions. This is also pretty cool and helped a lot: https://vimsnake.com/. It's a classic snake game where instead of using arrow keys, you use HJKL. And speaking of arrow keys, one thing I did very early on was disabling them (or, in reality, remapping them to noop) in normal mode so I was forced to move around the text using Vim Motions.
At first you will get frustrated because your brain will need some time to rewire in a way to absorb all the new abstractions Vim presents. It's a whole new logic of editing text. The most important thing is to stick to it and you will be surprised with how fast you end up picking things up. Of course, don't expect to be crazy fast in a few weeks. But right now, after a little over a month, I no longer feel that discomfort using Vim anymore. I suppose I'd still be faster on VS Code, but I really want to master Vim, so I'm sticking with it and I feel a constant improvement.
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Ask HN: How do I code offline for a week?
If you're not familiar with Vim, I'd encourage you to download a few Vim cheatsheets, the VimBeGood extension[1] and practice navigating code in Vim.
[1] https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/vim-be-good
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Practicing VIM
For Neovim, then this Hardtime plugin will help you change the habit, and this vim-be-good from Primeagen helps learn vim motion. TJ DeVries is also a good source to learn.
- Resources for mastering vim motions
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Vim for The VS Code User: Part 1 - Initial Setup
A game for learning vim, in vim: https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/vim-be-good
- recommendation on vimgolf challenges
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Please help a noob.
I'm trying to NeoVim (and vi) in general having never used it. I decided to start with VimBeGood but I can't get it to launch a game. I've gotten the plugin installed but when I run :VimBeGood it just shows the screen saying "to play a game delete that line." I deleted words and noob but after that I'm lost. Nothing happens. What did I do wrong?
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Question regarding vertical movement
I recommend vim-be-good for practicing this
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Whats the next step?
There are plugins like https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/vim-be-good that can help with practice.
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Atom has been archived
I found https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/vim-be-good to be kind of a nice way to build some muscle memory for vim.
nvim-lua-guide
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Any guide to start writing plugins?
Nvim Lua guide
- I'm fairly new to Neovim, and I want to configure my neovim setup.
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Advice/Resources for creating/debugging a Neovim Plugin?
My main struggles beyond a simple problem are just the inability to find a way to easily debug things and the general process for setting up a plugin. I mostly work with Python/Jupyter, some C and Lua/Bash scripts, and usually you can either write tests/print debug for smaller scale things or get some stack trace if you have an error. With Neovim development, it just feels like there's nothing more besides update plugin, try on neovim, fail, bash head against wall, and repeat, and that doesn't quite seem efficient or correct - I'm sure there's something out there that should make the process easier. I tried looking online but I haven't found many that really fit my needs (most of the resources here seem more targeted towards creating your own init.lua, and Luadev plugin's commands are all broken (:Luadev-RunLine and any other command keeps telling me I got some trailing space). I'm really just looking to see how to make a snippet library, but there doesn't seem to be much that helps me. If someone could let me know how they debug their plugin or point me to any external resources, please let me know!
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[help] use neovim to edit files at remote - server?
I have no guidance for the first point. For the second, checkout the neovim lua guide or : lua-guide
- Is there a vim/neovim equivalent to something like "Mastering Emacs"?
- [Neovim] Puis-je obtenir un guide sur la façon d’installer Packer pour les nuls absolus ?
- New to NeoVim, looking to learn
- Where to learn about Neovim and it's plugins? (Deeply)
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Where would be a good place to start trying to learn lua with no previous programming experience. Trying to learn it as it’s the main language used in a project I’m apart of and want to help out
A quick google search turned up this codeacademy class on learning to program in Javascript. I didn't vet the whole thing, but it appears to assume you know nothing, which is what you need. If you go through that, you can then consume one of the resources that /u/luascriptdev post to equate that back to Lua. Again, the concepts translate.
- how to understand lua config
What are some alternatives?
10-minute-vim-exercises - The exercise files from 10 Minute Vim, for convenience of readers
kickstart.nvim - A launch point for your personal nvim configuration
which-key.nvim - 💥 Create key bindings that stick. WhichKey is a lua plugin for Neovim 0.5 that displays a popup with possible keybindings of the command you started typing.
packer.nvim - A use-package inspired plugin manager for Neovim. Uses native packages, supports Luarocks dependencies, written in Lua, allows for expressive config
vim-sneak - The missing motion for Vim :athletic_shoe:
vim-test - Run your tests at the speed of thought
vim-surround - surround.vim: Delete/change/add parentheses/quotes/XML-tags/much more with ease
plenary.nvim - plenary: full; complete; entire; absolute; unqualified. All the lua functions I don't want to write twice.
nvim-tree.lua - A file explorer tree for neovim written in lua
tree-sitter-svelte - Tree sitter grammar for Svelte
tree-sitter - An incremental parsing system for programming tools