Yet Another Neovim Setup Article
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…
