vim-smoothie VS neovim

dirbuf.nvim (or oil.nvim), the genius thing is that it is really just one mapping, plus stuff you already know. Foke's todo-comments.nvim is another typical one, but you're probably aware of that if using Noice. Smooth scrolling plugins? My favourite for some reason is still vim-smoothie, not the Lua alternatives.

My goal is to try to make something like vim-smoothie in emacs. I want to make this scroll line by line, instead of by pixel with pixel-scroll-mode because that just makes it laggy, and not smooth at all.

I can reccomend practicing using D and U to move around to see if you get more used to it, but there's also the vim-smoothie plugin which might make the scrolling easier to follow. Some other usefull ways of moving around are using { and } to move by paragraph (i.e. to next blank line), [[, [], ][ and ]] which move to the start or end of c-style functions. You might also want to try out a fuzzy finder such as vim-fzf or nvim-telescope where you can use :Rg or :Telescope live-grep respectively where you can start typing part of a line and see a list of the lines that fit alongside a preview window

I installed a plug-in that animates my scrolling. I’m not sure if it’s https://github.com/psliwka/vim-smoothie or something comparable (on phone so I can’t check right now). It also shows what’s going on in a more visual way. It’s hypothetically slower since it wastes frames, but I’m used to it now.

> And smooth scrolling works on regular neovim with https://github.com/psliwka/vim-smoothie

Doesn't 'smooth scrolling' mean scrolling in increments less than a full line, to avoid the janky jarring jump from one line to the next?

I don't get how you can do smooth scrolling in a terminal interface? The screenshots in that link aren't smooth - they jump whole lines at a time.

That is where this type of plugin can help with that: https://github.com/psliwka/vim-smoothie

Very sexy for reading stuff (like help)

Wanna add some coconut oil to your c-u/c-d? use psliwka/vim-smoothie for some smooooooth ups and downs. Really helps you keep focus and reduce the need to reorient after the jump.

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.