Yet Another Neovim Setup Article

Clay Ratliff
8 min readNov 14, 2023
Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash

Why do we need to keep revisiting this?

The short answer is we don’t.

The long answer is a bit more personal. While I don’t work as a developer anymore, I do still have to work with code occasionally, and I still, for whatever reason, enjoy tinkering with my tools. I find that talking about and tinkering with CLI tools is a lot of fun, and one of my favorite tools is Neovim. Every now and then I’ll re-evaluate my setup and try to improve on my previous config by setting up a new one from scratch, keeping what I felt worked well in the previous setup, and adding new things that I think will either improve on tools I already use or which will streamline a workflow that I didn’t previously have. And yes, believe it or not, as your career advances your workflow will also continue to change. Yet another reason occasional re-evaluation is a good thing.

To potentially save people some time, I want to mention that this article is not intended for people new to Vim or NeoVim. I assume that you have some previous knowledge of vim/vim and either have experience with Lua or, at the least, no aversion to it.

Neovim vs Vim

I wanted to get this out of the way real quick because there will probably be some confusion if you’re not familiar with the history. Neovim is a…

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Clay Ratliff

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