Writing Plugins - It's Never Been Easier (NeovimConf 2022)

This is a talk about writing plugins in Neovim using the Lua programming language. It was part of the Neovim Conference 2022.

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[runtimejpp]

love this guy, theoretical physicist teaching about vim, neovim and lua. the best

[blahblah-rnts]

Now we just need to all agree that when you write a plugin you finish it in a way that it's useable instantly upon installation and doesn't require reading through 10 pages of documentation (maybe even from other plugins as dependencies) (I'm looking at you ... entire collection of LSP plugins)

[regard-bo]

Extremely simple introduction, thank you.

[patriciourrutia]

Great! Thanks Dev! I was waiting for this video. I watched live and it was awesome!!!

[FelipeV]

Look at teej and Prime being impressed with ChatGPT lmao. Thanks for the video! I've been wanting to write a simple plug-in for learning purposes.

[mandos]

Thanks for great talk, I enjoyed it a lot and ChatGPT looks neat and scary at same time :)

[daltonyon]

Great talk, help me to understand how to create a new plugin

[andrewstone]

hilarious, i didn't realize this was you when i was watch the conf

[艾曦-eg]

It is just so cool. I wonder can this use tree-sitter to index the whole project. This is just for finding the todo in comments of the current buffer, can this done by vimgrep along with the tree-sitter to deal with the comment staff. Another thing is can todo be case insensitive, todo flollowed by ":" should be its pattern. :c

[iamroot]

This is great. Can you share your slides

[jarjar]

What's the difference in creating the plugin file inside your nvim/lua directory, so you can just require it without having to set your runtimepath. Is it just a convention so that it is isolated from the rest of your config?

Also thanks a lot for the really insightful video!

[VovaY]

What TODO plugin did you use before writing yours?

[anasouardini]

nvim defaults are really weird and impractical.

[PragMero]

Eeew, Mac, you should be using linux