vim-vsnip VS awesome-neovim

My go to these days has been https://github.com/hrsh7th/vim-vsnip. It is compatible with LSP and VSCode snippet format. Since it is in pure VimScript you don’t need to battle configuring python just to get the plug-in to work.

I first started by reading some tutorials but most of those used parser combinators. For me, parser combinators always caused some issues sooner or later (at least in Lua when trying to parse recursive / nested nodes). An example project that uses this technique is vim-vsnip: https://github.com/hrsh7th/vim-vsnip/blob/master/autoload/vsnip/snippet/parser.vim. Later, I found out that Luacheck uses a different approach which I liked better: https://github.com/lunarmodules/luacheck/blob/master/src/luacheck/parser.lua. That's the project that helped me the most while writing my own parsers for different snippet engines.

This plugin could use it? hrsh7th/vim-vsnip

I am not a snippets expert, I don't even currently use snippets. However, I know that both LuaSnip and vim-vsnip can load these vscode style snippets. So my recommendation would be to get the snippets and use one of those two snippet plugins.

For autocompletion I use the nvim-cmp plugin. If you're not coding, it might be overkill. But during writing it helps me a lot, because it autosuggests words that I used in the current buffer, too. The most popular autocomplete plugins should be compatible with the most popular snippets engines like vim-vsnip.

Have you ever wondered how to have a snippet completion in VSCode so you can write Julia code fast but in Neovim? Fear not! vim-vsnip is the plugin you need. This plugin supports LSP/VSCode's snippet format. But first, you need to install cmp-vsnip for this plugin to be sourced to nvim-cmp. Oh btw, these three plugins: nvim-cmp, vim-vsnip, and cmp-vsnip → are made by the same person which is actually cool! If you want to support them, become a sponsor! (I am poor so I cannot sponsor yet 😔)

I believe you want the second variant. Then you should install some snippet plugin like vsnip or luasnip and config it with your completion engine.

https://github.com/hrsh7th/vim-vsnip says it supports vscode style snippets, so apparently you could use https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=kaffeine.advanced-drupal-8-snippets with that plugin.

Hay mas recursos en: Neovim's Awesome List.

Make sure to checkout Neovim's Awesome List for more.

I personally don't use this functionality so I can't recommend a specific plugin, but if you search for “treesitter”/“tree-sitter” in this list, you will find several of them:

https://github.com/rockerBOO/awesome-neovim

Does the community have a central repository of all plugins? I’ve used both this repo and neovim craft. If the latter creator has exposed the data via api that’s a fantastic plugin idea.

I like the poster you made, and I think this can definitely help people who first creating their config :) Did you submit it to the big-list yet?

> I'm using vim for a long time now, but recently I heard that neovim is noticeably faster. Is that true?

Yes; of course, YMMV. Even if you use Neovim just like Vim, it's snappier—the refactor resulted in 30% less code.

> Have most folks switched to neovim by now? Should I care?

There's two broad groups. Users who have been using Vim for like 20 years and they have a configuration they like and see no reason to change.

The other group wants all of the new hotness of Language Server Protocol, tree sitter, everything's asynchronous, there's a proper API and lots of new plugins that wouldn't be possible using Vimscript, for the most part.

Check out https://neovim.io/doc/user/vim_diff.html#nvim-features for details.

Being a Vim (now Neovim) user for close to 20 years, Neovim has attracted lots of new people to Vim-style editors and they've brought lots of energy. There's also been quite an influx of VS Code users.

Neovim is not an IDE, but it can support many IDE-like features via plugins written in Lua. There are several Neovim distributions, which you can install quickly and play around without committing to anything [1]. LunaVim, LazyVim and AstroVim are popular Neovim distributions.

It's important to understand that your existing .vimrc will Just Work if you want to start with that.

[1]: https://github.com/rockerBOO/awesome-neovim#preconfigured-co...

You can get some inspiration in the Awesome Neovim repo. Also, check lazy.nvim's README to see how to actually add and manage your plug-ins.

Collection of Awesome Plugins: https://github.com/rockerBOO/awesome-neovim

I started here: Awesome Neovim, it has a huge list of nice things to use for your own setup. I watched a few tutorials on youtube to know with which plugins to start.