n(eo)vim

A few days ago I decided to try out neovim in my everyday-life workflows.

I know about neovim since quite a while. Also I know about a few technical advantages compared to vim but over long time it was always the same:

• I installed neovim
• I used it a few times that day and maybe the next day
• I started to forget to run nvim instead of vim and…
• found myself using vim again since then

I have a week of vacation and this time I want to make serious change and integrate neovim into my daily life for while. I’m curious about nvim. Vim is now part of my life since about 7 years and vim is awesome <3 . Vim is definitely my editor of choice and I use a lot of other software that provide vim-bindings and vim-like functionalities. Also I haven’t had a bad experience with vim so that I want to try nvim now. I’m super happy with vim. But I want to make experiences. Trying something new and getting new impressions is inspiring, I think. There is something about neovim that I’m very curious about: it is possible to configure it using lua.

For the beginning I have set up the config so that the vimrc is sourced

set runtimepath^=~/.vim runtimepath+=~/.vim/after
let &packpath = &runtimepath
source ~/.vim/vimrc

I had to comment my viminfo config set vi='100,<50,s10,h,n~/.vim/viminfo because nvim uses shada instead and having set vi makes nvim print some warnings. As I wrote the previous sentence I just took a look my ~/.config/nvim/ folder and didn’t yet see a shada subfolder - so I have to take a look at the settings later on. I use vim-plug as plugin manager - it was enough to copy the ~/.vim/{plugged,autoload} folders to ~/.config/nvim/ to make the plugins work. Quite easy so far - awesome :-) In the next days I want to write a new config neovim, because my vim configs are in a git repository and I want to version nvim’s config seperatly. Also - as already mentioned before - because I want to see how things are when nvim is configured with lua. I’m very excited :-)