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A few months ago, TJ DeVries (a Neovim core team member) coined the phrase \"Personalised Development Environment\" or PDE.<\/p>\n\n
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>\n\n 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>\n\n 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>\n\n Recently, I found and added plugins that added a HTTP client<\/a> and a database connection manager<\/a> to Neovim - two pieces of functionality that I'd used in other IDEs or separate applications.<\/p>\n\n I also wrote my own Neovim plugin<\/a> for toggling checkboxes within Markdown lists.<\/p>\n\n Like Drupal and other open-source solutions that I use, I love being able to add or edit functionality as needed.<\/p>\n\n 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>\n\n ",
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"processed": "\n A few months ago, TJ DeVries (a Neovim core team member) coined the phrase \"Personalised Development Environment\" or PDE.<\/p>\n\n 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>\n\n 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>\n\n 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>\n\n Recently, I found and added plugins that added a HTTP client<\/a> and a database connection manager<\/a> to Neovim - two pieces of functionality that I'd used in other IDEs or separate applications.<\/p>\n\n