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      <p>Over a year ago, I posted that I was <a href="/blog/going-full-vim">switching to using Neovim full-time</a> for my development work.</p>

      <p>I'd used Vim one file at a time on remote servers, and added Vim plugins in other IDEs and editors, so I was already familiar with a lot of the key bindings and motions before I decided to use it full-time.</p>

      <p>Still, it was tough to begin with, but once I'd learned how to configure Neovim, I also learned that being able to customise and extend it as much as you need to is one of its main advantages compared to other IDEs and code editors.</p>

      <p>TJ DeVries - a Neovim core team member - has recently coined the term "PDE" (a personalised development environment) which, for me, describes Neovim perfectly.</p>

      <p>Currently, I have a fuzzy-finder to quickly open files (as well as many other things), an LSP client to add code intelesense, auto-completion, refactoring tools, custom snippets, and very recently, a database client and a HTTP client.</p>

      <p>Just as important to me, I've found a growing community of other Neovim users who stream on Twitch, post YouTube videos, write blog posts, or publish their dotfiles for others to see and reference.</p>

      <p>I've learned Lua. Not just for my own Neovim configuration, but I recently wrote and open-sourced my own simple plugin.</p>

      <p>Like Git, I enjoy and prefer using tools that I can configure and adapt to my workflow.</p>

      <p>Given Neovim's flexibility and configurability, its expanding feature set both in core and community plugins, and the growing community, I think that Neovim is going to be something that I continue to use and adapt for a long time.</p>

              
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      <p>Over a year ago, I posted that I was <a href="http://default/blog/going-full-vim">switching to using Neovim full-time</a> for my development work.</p>

      <p>I'd used Vim one file at a time on remote servers, and added Vim plugins in other IDEs and editors, so I was already familiar with a lot of the key bindings and motions before I decided to use it full-time.</p>

      <p>Still, it was tough to begin with, but once I'd learned how to configure Neovim, I also learned that being able to customise and extend it as much as you need to is one of its main advantages compared to other IDEs and code editors.</p>

      <p>TJ DeVries - a Neovim core team member - has recently coined the term "PDE" (a personalised development environment) which, for me, describes Neovim perfectly.</p>

      <p>Currently, I have a fuzzy-finder to quickly open files (as well as many other things), an LSP client to add code intelesense, auto-completion, refactoring tools, custom snippets, and very recently, a database client and a HTTP client.</p>

      <p>Just as important to me, I've found a growing community of other Neovim users who stream on Twitch, post YouTube videos, write blog posts, or publish their dotfiles for others to see and reference.</p>

      <p>I've learned Lua. Not just for my own Neovim configuration, but I recently wrote and open-sourced my own simple plugin.</p>

      <p>Like Git, I enjoy and prefer using tools that I can configure and adapt to my workflow.</p>

      <p>Given Neovim's flexibility and configurability, its expanding feature set both in core and community plugins, and the growing community, I think that Neovim is going to be something that I continue to use and adapt for a long time.</p>

              
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