yode-nvim VS vim-abolish

Perhaps https://github.com/hoschi/yode-nvim

The plugin is https://github.com/hoschi/yode-nvim . I've submitted an issue related to this. I just wanted a workaround for the meantime.

It gets brought up a lot in vim discussions. It's missing a few major things for me;

1. Tabs (like in vim). I've found only vim and emacs have tabs in a way that makes sense to me. Kakoune also has a cool model, where I can use my window manager (or tmux) to recreate tabs.

2. Code folding, I like to fold everything as soon as I open a file to get an "overview" and then slowly unfold as look into the details. Wasn't in Helix last time I checked.

3. Narrowing. Emacs has it built in, (neo)vim requires a plugin [0]. Similar to code folding, when I'm working on a large function, I want to pretend it's the entirety of my buffer.

[0] https://github.com/hoschi/yode-nvim

Hi, great work releasing this! Trying to explain vim concisely is always an interesting challenge and I had a great time reading your attempt in this book. I always find it really interesting on how people try to group certain vim functions in a way that makes sense to people that don't use vim.

Whenever I try to explain vim to other people, I always start super abstract, i.e 'vim grammar is all (count)? verb then object. Learn actions and then the movements to apply the action where you want'. I think you cover that idea pretty well in your 'Vim philosophy and features' section whilst not making it overly abstract and keeping it relatable.

Some things I noticed, you mention registers in the insert mode section before explaining what they are. It seemed odd to me that you used the word before explaining what it meant, but maybe it is unavoidable?

I also noticed you completely left out folds (z, :help fold). Personally, I aggressively fold code I'm not working on so I think they are super important :D. There was a plugin posted recently thats a cool alternative to folding though (similar to emacs narrow) [0] [1].

[0] https://github.com/hoschi/yode-nvim

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found it, check this issue: https://github.com/hoschi/yode-nvim/issues/5

Additionally, I use vim-abolish[https://github.com/tpope/vim-abolish] with the Subvert command to maintain the case.

Alternatively, you could use vsvim and write a vim macro to do it, but that's a whole other rabbit hole to go down. The vim-abolish plugin should do the trick...

tpope/vim-abolish provides a useful :Subvert command that works like a smart substitution. Is it possible to preview the command's effects just like for the built-in substitution command?

tpope/vim-abolish: Some text manipulation stuff.

https://github.com/tpope/vim-abolish might be able to do this (I dont use it myself)

tpope/tpope-vim-abolish - Sane search/replace

The best thing about Vim is that you don't have to choose between Vim and an IDE! Any text editor or IDE that's even moderately popular will probably have a decent Vim plugin. The only downside is that you generally won't have access to Vim plugins (abolish.vim is the one I find myself missing the most: https://github.com/tpope/vim-abolish).

Personally, I learned to use Vim via the VsVim plugin for Visual Studio.

Indent-blankline to draw indentation guides, nvim-autopairs to automatically complete pairs of brackets and quotes (I didn’t know I couldn’t live without it), nvim-ts-autotag to autocomplete pairs of tags as well, targets.vim to target what is inside or outside the mentioned pairs and vim-surround to manage all those pairs with few keystrokes. Kommentary to comment and uncomment lines of code, nvim-cursorline to help locate where the cursor is and nvim-colorizer because I am cheeky. Vim-abolish is definitely an interesting one. I decided to install it because of its case coercion capabilities, but it can do much more than that.

I create a lot of abbreviations, especially with vim-abolish. They're generally useful, but the problem is, they're hard to remember if I haven't used them in a while. To solve this problem I created a plugin, abbreinder.nvim, which reminds the user if they've typed the value of something that they could have used a pre-existing abbreviation for.

What are the advantages over vim-abolish?