Motivation

I was tired of bloated, buggy, features-rich IDEs. Life was too easy that way. I craved the real coding experience. The best editor I could come up with at that time was Turbo Pascal (preview). Unfortunately, I can't do Java in it, so I had to explore some alternatives. I initially went with vim as my choice, but then switched to neovim.

Some real reasons to use vim/neovim:
Why I use Vim in 2022
Why even bother with Vim or Neovim in 2022?

Screenshots

Wallpapers from here.

My config

My neovim config can be found here.

Most useful plugins

There are some plugins, that i would recommend to anyone.

• packer.nvim - Plugin manager for neovim. Use this to install or other plugins.
• telescope.nvim - Fuzzy finder, that can be used to almost everything. I use it to: find files, search text in project, jump between buffers, search lsp symbols, list diagnostics, and many more.
• neo-tree.nvim - File browser. Just like any other sidebar file browser in most IDEs.
• nvim-autopairs - Simple plugin for completing symbols like '('.
• diffview.nvim - Powerful diff viewer. I use to to preview changes in my commits and resolve conflicts.
• nvim-treesitter - Syntax highlight for most languages.
• nvim-cmp - Autocomplete plugin.
• nvim-lspconfig - Set of LSP configurations for many langauges. It's go to plugin, when you want some language tooling out of box. List of supported tools.
• null-ls.nvim - Another helper for LSP. If lspconfig, don't have some tool you want, you can look for it here.

Tips

• Change key repetition delay for faster hjkl navigation. Under X server, you just have to add xset r rate 250 50 to .xinitrc.
• Prepare alias to easy config changing. I use my admin perl script for this. When typing a nvim in terminal, it runs: exec "cd ~/.config/nvim && nvim".
• Dont spend too much time ricing you editor, stick with minimal useful tools ;)