Why bother with Vim in 2022 (UI Design Discussion)

• which-key.nvim

  115 4,413 6.8 Lua

  💥 Create key bindings that stick. WhichKey is a lua plugin for Neovim 0.5 that displays a popup with possible keybindings of the command you started typing.

For example, there are some very useful plugins like which-key that hugely help in discoverability without sacrificing on vims expressiveness.

• LunarVim

  272 17,463 7.6 Lua

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

  

There are a few projects that do this for you like lunarvim or spacevim and they provide a much nicer experience out the box and make it a lot easier to discover things inside it. Though with so many external plugins and huge amounts of third party configuration that tends to crack at the edges where things don't quite align well.

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• SpaceVim

  86 19,974 4.8 Vim Script

  Discontinued A community-driven modular vim/neovim distribution - The ultimate vimrc

  

There are a few projects that do this for you like lunarvim or spacevim and they provide a much nicer experience out the box and make it a lot easier to discover things inside it. Though with so many external plugins and huge amounts of third party configuration that tends to crack at the edges where things don't quite align well.

• nvim-better-n

  4 38 5.5 Lua

  A more versatile n(ext) key in neovim, repeat movement commands.

For example, neovim has no suggestion api/management (for introspection into defaults), which is helpful with https://github.com/jonatan-branting/nvim-better-n/issues/2 due to legacy behavior like https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/10503, which probably will never be fixed and requires ugly hacks as workarounds.

• Vim

  424 34,912 9.9 Vim Script

  The official Vim repository

  

For example, neovim has no suggestion api/management (for introspection into defaults), which is helpful with https://github.com/jonatan-branting/nvim-better-n/issues/2 due to legacy behavior like https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/10503, which probably will never be fixed and requires ugly hacks as workarounds.

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