Code faster by turning VS Code into Neovim

A guide on how to code faster in VS Code. I'm the happiest and most productive when using Neovim, but sometimes I need to use VS Code. Matching neovim's workflow in VS Code does require spending some time - 31 minutes and 50 seconds to be more precise.

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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:52 - Setup
01:39 - Navigation key bindings
09:45 - Coding key bindings
22:43 - File explorer key bindings
31:28 - Outro

[nikolovlazar]

Thanks for watching! I already have a few more keybindings in mind, so there might be a Part 2 video soon. What would you like to see?

[Neutralpointz]

Neovim came into my view a few days ago. I've never really used it, i am mainly a VSCode guy.
But this made me curious enough to try vim motions and set up my own keybindigs.
Thanks a lot and we need more content like this on here.

[JonMartins]

This is amazing my man.
Just added this to my vscode.
I mostly use vscode for debugging a little bit and to do formatting or editing of jsons. This is a game changer!

[Danielo]

Have to be honest, didn't expected this to be that good

[Knaif]

Nice video, I will try it out. I have been following Ben Awad's TS fullstack video for the last month and have found myself having to move my right hand to hit arrow keys or end a lot when writing code, and have been getting swamped with tabs since I didn't know the shortcuts to navigate between splits and tabs to close them without a mouse. One thing I think was missing in this video was navigating to terminals and swapping between them.

[bleakCode]

This is freaking beautiful! Awesome stuff

[qlvzknq]

You are a legend, I'm kind of facing issues with neovim(nvchad) it is freezing I don't know why, having the same problem with lazyvim too. So kindof thinking to switching back to vscode and came across this video. Now I'll definitely switch to vscode!

[bmind]

Love seeing you show the programming of vsCode keybinds you can do some really powerful stuff.

[Greyvend]

Amazing shortcuts and great easy to follow guide. Well done, sir! Can you share what theme do you use for VS code? And also, how did you make your cursor move so smoothly when you type and jump around?

[luispedrocamacho]

Great video! Just noticed that your a using a voyager keyboard and you have a kinesys keyboard in your background. What's your opinion between the two? I ask because I have a voyager and I'm struggling a bit so I'm considering to buy the kinesys.

[ahmedAltariqi]

I'd love to watch a full vccode set up video ❤

[KevinNitro]

Hi, your video's content is great. ❤❤
Btw what tiling window app / manager you are using? And also the app shows keystroke on screen? 🥰

Also will you update the gist link in the future for more keymaps? Do you include it in your dotfiles repo or something?

[zrxmax_]

Maaaan this is just what I've been searching for!!! I used neovim, and was wondering, how can I turn vscode into neovim with it's shortcuts and etc. thank you!!

[Yesterday_i_ate_rat]

Can you make a video about your nvim setup ( keymaps, options -- explaining briefly ) & ( what are the plugins you use for web development )

[Deus-lo-Vuilt]

Hi, do you happen to have any video on how to install autocomplete or the necessary extensions for react, next tailwind etc in nvim ?

[anvesh]

Thanks for the video

20:32 to focus git message box

{
"key": "space g g",
"command": "runCommands",
"args": {
"commands": [
"workbench.scm.focus",
"list.focusFirst",
"list.select"
]
},
"when": "your-when-condition"
},

[haroldhankerchief]

thanks so much for this. i downloaded your json file from github but for some reason "space c r" for rename just wont work?

[dhanuzh.d]

can tell me colorscheme name for neovim

[zdravkoiliev]

Awesome video! When I toggle the sidebar it does not focus on it, so I still have to click or have a second command for focusing. Is it the same for you?

[EddieVillamor]

So many of these commands already have a built in keybinding. This is basically a video about how to do keybindings 😴 😴 gotta get back to work and actually code faster..
Would recommend just summarizing each key bindings you use and all the condition predicates instead so we can actually get through these in time.