alt Hacker NewsI swapped to neovim and never looked back. I don't even have vscode, jetbrains or anything similar installed anymore.
AI has made it so so easy to get into neovim and make anything work no matter how obscure it is.
The biggest benefit for me which I haven't realized how good it is with tmux and the low low memory usage. I mean I can keep EVERY project I work on open, quickly switch and maintain.
No more 10gb memory usage on a SINGLE project, no more laggy remote access, no more dreading reboots, no more wasting time.
Kernel panic? everything is right there how you left it, honestly it makes me feel so sad because the poor design of IDE's have been such a show-stopper for a LOT of good project designs that I have completely avoided due to introduced complexities that come not to mention how slow things can become.
Now I can just ssh into my pc from a laptop and work, no synchronization, no need to have a beefy laptop and incredible battery life.
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I use neovim daily but am 100% sure I'm not even scratching the surface of its power. In fact I'm not even sure I'm using anything specific to the "neo" variant vs plain vim.
I can do simple search/replace, page up/down, jump to character or delete x words, but I feel like I'm missing a lot to really take advantage of it.
Is there a tutorial or guide people recommend to become more of a power user? The only plugin I have is the Markdown editor for instance.
Ok, this sounds awesome, but do you miss the GUI integrations? like , being able to pop a document open in your editor from the desktop?
It just feels like it's hard to nail down your preferred workflow / setup ... but it's likely worth it if you're using it daily!
Are there any good visual or video demos of using this type of setup? I'm having trouble picturing what makes people really love this type of TUI-only workflow.
Sounds awesome. Can you tell us more... How do you ideally use/setup AI,tmux and nvim?
How many weird terminal bugs do you have in your setup? Eg one that annoys me the most is that pressing esc in insert mode often takes a few seconds to do its thing.
Use windows and leave kernel panics behind :)
i can tell you dont actually SSH often by tbe way. Also, tmux doesnt magically reduce resource requirements of your applications
I've been using Vim daily for 13 years and switched to NeoVim about a year of two ago. For me the main advantages over Vim are just the Lua scripting instead of Vimscript, its support for language servers, and better handling of terminals windows running inside Vim.
However, I do still run visual studio in parallel for debugging. It's basically essential when dealing with console game development.