Help a newb migrate to NeoVim from VSCode

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  • neovim-config

    configuration files for neovim (by rebuilt)

  • Ultimately, only you know what works best for your workflow. And your ideal setup will be one that you write yourself. But that doesn't mean you should stay away from other people's configs. Search this subreddit. Try some out. See how other people live. The most obvious things will be the different plugins. You may know how to edit in vim but it's not clear to me if you're already familiar with things like registers, buffers, macros, quickfix lists and other built-in functionality. That stuff is important to learn. These are my dots if you're curious. https://github.com/rebuilt/neovim-config. As for writing in lua vs vimscript, more setup guides include information for vimscript because it's been around longer. But if you're moving to neovim to take advantage of lsp and treesitter and luajit then you might as well go with lua. This is assuming you don't already know vimscript. Find plugins that take advantage of the latest features here. https://github.com/rockerBOO/awesome-neovim. If you're migrating from vs code you might feel at home with this set of configs. https://github.com/ChristianChiarulli/LunarVim

  • awesome-neovim

    Collections of awesome neovim plugins.

  • Ultimately, only you know what works best for your workflow. And your ideal setup will be one that you write yourself. But that doesn't mean you should stay away from other people's configs. Search this subreddit. Try some out. See how other people live. The most obvious things will be the different plugins. You may know how to edit in vim but it's not clear to me if you're already familiar with things like registers, buffers, macros, quickfix lists and other built-in functionality. That stuff is important to learn. These are my dots if you're curious. https://github.com/rebuilt/neovim-config. As for writing in lua vs vimscript, more setup guides include information for vimscript because it's been around longer. But if you're moving to neovim to take advantage of lsp and treesitter and luajit then you might as well go with lua. This is assuming you don't already know vimscript. Find plugins that take advantage of the latest features here. https://github.com/rockerBOO/awesome-neovim. If you're migrating from vs code you might feel at home with this set of configs. https://github.com/ChristianChiarulli/LunarVim

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  • LunarVim

    🌙 LunarVim is an IDE layer for Neovim. Completely free and community driven.

  • Ultimately, only you know what works best for your workflow. And your ideal setup will be one that you write yourself. But that doesn't mean you should stay away from other people's configs. Search this subreddit. Try some out. See how other people live. The most obvious things will be the different plugins. You may know how to edit in vim but it's not clear to me if you're already familiar with things like registers, buffers, macros, quickfix lists and other built-in functionality. That stuff is important to learn. These are my dots if you're curious. https://github.com/rebuilt/neovim-config. As for writing in lua vs vimscript, more setup guides include information for vimscript because it's been around longer. But if you're moving to neovim to take advantage of lsp and treesitter and luajit then you might as well go with lua. This is assuming you don't already know vimscript. Find plugins that take advantage of the latest features here. https://github.com/rockerBOO/awesome-neovim. If you're migrating from vs code you might feel at home with this set of configs. https://github.com/ChristianChiarulli/LunarVim

  • coc.nvim

    Nodejs extension host for vim & neovim, load extensions like VSCode and host language servers.

  • If you want to have a similar environment working in short time, probably CoC is your best option https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim.

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