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Over a year ago, I posted that I was switching to using Neovim full-time<\/a> for my development work.<\/p>\n\n

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>\n\n

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>\n\n

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

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>\n\n

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>\n\n

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

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

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>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n

Over a year ago, I posted that I was switching to using Neovim full-time<\/a> for my development work.<\/p>\n\n

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>\n\n

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>\n\n

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

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>\n\n

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>\n\n

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

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

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>\n\n ", "summary": null } ], "feeds_item": [ { "imported": "1970-01-01T00:33:45+00:00", "guid": null, "hash": "fd61209df55f98bd0ca56ce044f36294", "target_type": "feeds_feed", "target_uuid": "90c85284-7ca8-4074-9178-97ff8384fe76" } ] }