vim-python-pep8-indent VS neovim

Interesting. I’ve always used default auto-indenting and explicitly turn it off in Treesitter as I’ve found it messes it up. The ultimately improvement for me has been this plugin.

Use Vimjas/vim-python-pep8-indent and forget about all your Python headaches.

I've always been very happy with vim-python-pep8-indent. But you need to enable additional_vim_regex_highlighting in treesitter which currently does not play well with spell being on. Alternatively you can rely on the indent feature of treesitter but it's currently experimental and has some issues with python: * https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/issues/4651 * https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/issues/4650

Try this plugin for python indentation

A good old indentation plugin vim-python-pep8-indentation

The only thing that worked really well for me and which I still use is https://github.com/Vimjas/vim-python-pep8-indent

https://github.com/Vimjas/vim-python-pep8-indent works well, but it's slow.

Python requires a third party plugin to be usable, WTF?

As a software engineer, choosing and understanding your text editor is important part of your work, as it impacts your productivity and workflow efficiency. It's like choosing the perfect tool for any trade - you need to know what tool to use and how to use it effectively if you want to excel. For me, I use Neovim as my editor and I have been using it for a little over a year now.

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.