How much better is neoVim? Is it really that much better than VsCode?

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  • LunarVim

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

    • Another idea could be to use one of the pre-configured neovim distributions, i.e. lunarvim or astronvim

  • coc-ccls

    CCLS (C/C++) extension for coc.nvim

    • There is this plugin https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim for vim for lsp features. If you use neovim instead it has a few more options.

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  • telescope.nvim

    Find, Filter, Preview, Pick. All lua, all the time.

    • For ctrl-shift-f there is https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim but it is only supported in neovim. There are other options for pure vim, but this one is just so much better(imo). It is better than any search I've used on any "real" IDE.

  • notes

    A Personal Collection of My Computer Related Notes (by tomit4)

    • It’s night and day. I also combine a heavily customized NeoVim config (https://github.com/tomit4/notes/tree/main/nvim) with a tiling window manager (https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm), the espanso text expander (https://espanso.org/), Vimium in the browser (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/), and a 40% ortholinear keyboard(https://drop.com/buy/planck-mechanical-keyboard).

  • bspwm

    A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning

    • It’s night and day. I also combine a heavily customized NeoVim config (https://github.com/tomit4/notes/tree/main/nvim) with a tiling window manager (https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm), the espanso text expander (https://espanso.org/), Vimium in the browser (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/), and a 40% ortholinear keyboard(https://drop.com/buy/planck-mechanical-keyboard).

  • espanso

    Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust

    • It’s night and day. I also combine a heavily customized NeoVim config (https://github.com/tomit4/notes/tree/main/nvim) with a tiling window manager (https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm), the espanso text expander (https://espanso.org/), Vimium in the browser (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/), and a 40% ortholinear keyboard(https://drop.com/buy/planck-mechanical-keyboard).

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