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      Neovim as a Personalised Development Environment
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      <p>A few months ago, TJ DeVries (a Neovim core team member) coined the phrase "Personalised Development Environment" or PDE.</p>

      <p><a href="/blog/going-full-vim">I've been using Neovim full-time</a> since July 2021 - starting with no configuration to configuring it with Vimscript and later with Lua - setting options like line numbers and relative numbers, tabs and spaces, and indent and fold levels.</p>

      <p>I evaluated and installed some initial plugins to add functionality that I needed. Some of them I still use, and some I've replaced with alternative plugins or built-in solutions that have been included in newer versions of Neovim.</p>

      <p>I added my own keymaps that made sense to me that either, in my opinion, improved on default keymaps or created new ones that made sense to me or configured a plugin that I'd added.</p>

      <p>Recently, I found and added plugins that added a <a href="https://github.com/rest-nvim/rest.nvim">HTTP client</a> and a <a href="https://github.com/kristijanhusak/vim-dadbod-ui">database connection manager</a> to Neovim - two pieces of functionality that I'd used in other IDEs or separate applications.</p>

      <p>I also <a href="https://github.com/opdavies/toggle-checkbox.nvim">wrote my own Neovim plugin</a> for toggling checkboxes within Markdown lists.</p>

      <p>Like Drupal and other open-source solutions that I use, I love being able to add or edit functionality as needed.</p>

      <p>In the last year or so, I've definitely been able to personalise my Neovim setup to meet my needs, and have it work as a fully-fledged solution for PHP and JavaScript development, DevOps work, and technical writing (including this email).</p>

              
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      <p>A few months ago, TJ DeVries (a Neovim core team member) coined the phrase "Personalised Development Environment" or PDE.</p>

      <p><a href="/blog/going-full-vim">I've been using Neovim full-time</a> since July 2021 - starting with no configuration to configuring it with Vimscript and later with Lua - setting options like line numbers and relative numbers, tabs and spaces, and indent and fold levels.</p>

      <p>I evaluated and installed some initial plugins to add functionality that I needed. Some of them I still use, and some I've replaced with alternative plugins or built-in solutions that have been included in newer versions of Neovim.</p>

      <p>I added my own keymaps that made sense to me that either, in my opinion, improved on default keymaps or created new ones that made sense to me or configured a plugin that I'd added.</p>

      <p>Recently, I found and added plugins that added a <a href="https://github.com/rest-nvim/rest.nvim">HTTP client</a> and a <a href="https://github.com/kristijanhusak/vim-dadbod-ui">database connection manager</a> to Neovim - two pieces of functionality that I'd used in other IDEs or separate applications.</p>

      <p>I also <a href="https://github.com/opdavies/toggle-checkbox.nvim">wrote my own Neovim plugin</a> for toggling checkboxes within Markdown lists.</p>

      <p>Like Drupal and other open-source solutions that I use, I love being able to add or edit functionality as needed.</p>

      <p>In the last year or so, I've definitely been able to personalise my Neovim setup to meet my needs, and have it work as a fully-fledged solution for PHP and JavaScript development, DevOps work, and technical writing (including this email).</p>

              
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