Going All In with NeoVim

NeoVim started as a crowd source campaign with a goal to "aggressively refactor Vim", essentially removing 20+ years of cruft and providing new features never before possible. NeoVim is now about 4 years old and comes packed with wonderful features!

Come learn why I think NeoVim is the future on Vim, why after many back and forth I've decided to go all-in, and which tools and plugins make NeoVim a better choice for most people than Vim.

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1. All in with 1 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
2. What is NeoVim? 2 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
3. NeoVim → Hard fork of Vim focused on extensibility and usability → Aggressive (yet careful) refactor of the original Vim code → Neovim is literally the future of Vim! 3 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
4. Dorian Karter ! doriankarter.com " @dorian_escplan Hashrocket ! hashrocket.com 4 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
5. NeoVim Refactoring Goals → Simplify maintenance and encourage contributions → Split the work between multiple developers → Enable advanced UIs without modifications to the core → Maximize extensibility 5 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
6. Simplify maintenance 6 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
7. Vim Hall of WTF 7 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
8. libuv 8 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
9. Compatible Mode :h compatible 9 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
10. Sensible Defaults 10 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
11. :h vim-diff 11 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
12. Encourage contributions Split the work between multiple developers 12 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
13. BDFL 13 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
14. Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL) is a title given to a small number of open-source software development leaders, typically project founders who retain the final say in disputes or arguments within the community. → Wikipedia 14 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
15. Background Where did it all start? → Matt Kaniaris & Geoff Greer [Floobits] → Thiago de Arruda - Creator of NeoVim 15 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
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17. Which is which? 17 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
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19. 19 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
20. CI && Tests 20 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
21. CONTRIBUTING.md 21 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
22. Enable advanced UIs [without modifications to the core] 22 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
23. 23 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
24. vim-mode powered plugins → Atom → VSCode 24 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
25. Maximize Extensibility 25 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
26. msgpack-rpc (Vim API) → Execute Vim commands → Evaluate Vimscript expressions → Manipulate buffers, windows and tabs → Receive/handle editor events 26 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
27. NeoVim Features 27 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
28. NeoVim Features → Modern GUIs (using msgpack API) → Write Plugins in Any Language → New Plugin Architecture based on CoProcesses → Embedded Scriptable Terminal Emulator → Shared Data between editor instances → XDG Spec Implementation 28 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
29. ⚙ Job Control 29 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
30. ! Support 30 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
31. True Support 31 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
32. Biggest weakness of Legacy Vim™ 32 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
33. ™ux 33 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
34. Biggest strength of NeoVim (IMO) Terminal! 34 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
35. My history with NeoVim 35 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
36. Going All In Setup an alias echo alias vim='nvim' >> ~/.zshrc Backup command vim 36 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
37. NVim from Vim :help nvim-from-vim Can be as simple as brew install neovim ln -s ~/.vimrc ~/.config/nvim/init.vim 37 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
38. Essential Plugins 38 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
39. NeoTerm 39 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
40. vim-test 40 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
41. deoplete.nvim 41 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
42. nvim-completion-manager 42 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
43. asyncomplete 43 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
44. WebComplete (w/ Deoplete) 44 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
45. LanguageClie nt-neovim 45 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
46. ALE 46 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
47. NVimux [Neovim as a TMUX replacement] 47 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
48. https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Related- projects 48 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
49. Writing Your OWN Plugin 49 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
50. 50 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
51. Betraying your editor? 51 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
52. Community 52 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan
53. → https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/ → http://neovim.io/ → https://github.com/neovim/neovim → http://twitter.com/neovim → https://waffle.io/neovim/neovim → https://gitter.im/neovim/neovim → On IRC freenode: #neovim 53 — Going All in With NeoVim - Dorian Karter @dorian_escplan