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aerique: Jul 16, 2008

sink posted:

is NeoVim a thing worth using?

I move frequently between editing with a full IDE (IntelliJ) at work to editing with just vim. IntelliJ annoys the poo poo out of me by how clunky and unusable it can be. Vim annoys the poo poo out of me by how little it offers out of the gate and how painful or ghetto the configuration is to get it to have the bells and whistles.

I don't[1] want to be that guy in a Vim thread but you might want to check out Emacs since it comes out of the gate with more of the bells and whistles you might be looking for. Specifically Spacemacs[2], which is Emacs configured using a Vim emulation mode[3] and which uses the space key as leader (hence the name).

I've not used Spacemacs but I have been using Evil[3] for a couple of years now and I switch between Emacs and Vim on my machine easily. There's few complaints about the Vim emulation out there since it is pretty complete.

(I started using Vi somewhere in the late 1980's, switched to Emacs in the late 1990's and been using Evil for a good while now. For me, it's an ideal combination.)

[1] Well, actually I do.
[2] https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
[3] https://bitbucket.org/lyro/evil/wiki/Home

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