Neovim

“I started experimenting with more traditional text editors since last spring and am happy to say, that I'm a happy user of Neovim now.”

“losing weeks' worth of work just because you deleted it recently by mistake and then upgraded with the app deleting the undo”

“Program that claims to be a drop-in replacement will arbitrarily delete data in ways that the program it replaces doesn't”

“That Neovim changed the default storage path for undo files is completely irrelevant to whether the contract for persistence should be broken.”

“It doesn't support interactive commands. For example if you run a command that asks for input before finishing, it gets swallowed.”

“It's not a good reason for just deleting the old undo file with no warning. All the new version needs to do is ignore it, not nuke it.”

“Neovim could have easily done both without the deletion. Willful negligence is morally very bad when it can cause user harm.”

“they did it in a completely stupid way and responded to a bug report about it in a way that suggested this might not be just the occasional stupid”

“How many neovim users were made aware that the software would proactively delete their decade-long file history?”

“This issue with Neovim sounds like less than ideal design, or a bug, or both, not some kind of intentional affront to users.”

“if the format of the persistent undo file is unstable, and Neovim just deletes it when it doesn't recognize the previous format”

“the entire editor and the plugin ecosystem is fully based on the same keyboard-driven workflow”

“The Neovim/LazyVim speed for writing code turns out to be just as fast for navigating and reviewing code.”

“Neovim for code browsing (don't write much code anymore but the code editor is still useful for reading code)”

“That’s a serious misreading of the NeoVim ecosystem, and I’d bet good money against your predictions coming true.”

“No such thing exist in neovim (or at least in times when I was using it), so that churn never ends.”

“I have found a huge productivity boost being able to stay in Neovim for extended periods of time”

“I moved to neovim (stable) with as few extensions as possible, and those I've pinned to some geriatric version.”

“nvim integration (for seamless split navigation and so that I can create or reattach to a tmux session in an nvim float”

“There have also been multiple breaking changes over the last five years, including breaking compatibility with established default vim keybindings.”

“I feel like the habit I’ve benefited the most from on my neovim journey has been reaching for :h before doing any web search.”

“the main advantages over Vim are just the Lua scripting instead of Vimscript, its support for language servers”

“at first I hated Neovim's poor AI ghost text. Now I kind of like the break from heavy AI when I write code”

“With its own package manager now, and LSP library, you really don't need a lot of config tweaking”

“neovim on android/termux is actually easier to use than any of the IDE editor apps mainly due to everything being keyboard based”

“I mainly use (neo)vim because it has a less distracting interface than any other full blown IDE.”

“neovim also parses the page and creates a table of contents, which can be used for navigation within the page”

“the vim state machine is always present underneath it, resulting in unwanted behaviors or impossibility to implement some things”

“I feel this is the superior paradigm: You don't even need to get to some specific location in order to edit it.”

“It's flat (technically modal, but that does not make it more casual) interface with everything as invisible hotkeys and a near command line interface”

“moved to Neovim for other reasons, chiefly performance/LSP nativity/plugin ecosystem vitality”

“youre using the keyboard to do most things anyway, so the keyboard can just stay open all of the time”

“Shellfish on iOS to ssh into a vps with tmux with Gemini-cli, lazygit and neovim worked quite well for me.”

“things like NeoVim break regularly as a result of friction between the immutable world and a lot of plugins”

“There is more flexibility to extend easily, to customise, to make my environment fit using these more”

“removing that micro-latency of "eye-to-mouse-to-tree" keeps you in the flow state much longer.”

“navigating and selecting things SYNTACTICALLY with nvim-treesitter-textobjects is life-changing”

“instead of switching back from the alt screen and giving you your terminal back, they open a gimped little window within vim which makes it hard to navigate, copy, and search for things in the output”

“a plugin you write for neovim can run in the terminal, in any Neovim GUI or in another application”

“The feature neovim gives to it's users, it the intuition and the confidence to reason about the code they've written.”