Vim vs. Neovim and why i use what i use.

Recorded 2024-08-13 - Instagram Live Stream

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[NEDinACTION]

I use nvim and I never thought about this before this video but I honestly don't know what features it gives me either. I'm not into doing lots of customization or using many plugins. Now I'm realizing that every time I'm using a machine that just has vim I've never really noticed anything I'm missing. Gonna go do some research and if I don't spot any big downsides I might drop neovim for vim. Thanks! I'll update y'all once I've made my decision.

[EricNantel]

Feature of Neovim is that most features of Vim will work including Vim plugins, plus Lua plugins that are not yet available in Vim unfortunately. But Vim is going to work everywhere. I have dot files for both.

[alexjmohr]

Nvim generally has better default settings than vim, which is mostly why i prefer it. Also i like using lua for configuration over vimscript

[davea]

treesitter is so damned good! Just recently started to try out Neovim and I do like it. And you can use nvim just like vim so it is easy to switch.

[BersekViking]

I have to work on a lot of machines. Usually they only have vim, or just plain vi. So no point in getting used to neovim. :)

[loupax]

Does vim support LSP at this point? If it does I can see why one wouldn’t bother.

[DrowzeGarkenos]

For me the killer feature is using a real programming language (lua) for configuration instead of moonspeak (vimscript)

[themarksmith]

i struggle with copying and pasting using vim/nvim between remote hosts and local sessions via ssh... would love to see a vid on that...

[peasedustin]

i keep my load out as default as i can so when i’m on a different machine i’m not lost

[ooxxoo-zw]

I only use plain vi, and I switch between files by hitting C-Z and playing around with fg and bg. I can do that with any system out there, no need to install vim or nvim. Also, my "language server" is my brain.

[leopoId]

I don't really use the fancy features of Neovim, but I use it anyway because I really can't stand Vimscript.

[Pilosofia]

Nvim is faster than vim. so even without the features you woud like the performance of nvim.

[someaccount-mptk]

Alright I have to disagree. Are you more of a system admin type of guy? Becuase I feel like for a bug software engineering project, it would be beneficial to have more than vim.

For example how easy is it for you to grep for "foo" and find and replace in a project with lots of files, while excluding .env files and .log files? In nvim plugins can make that work. In vscode its dead easy.