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[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

quietly scoots his entire github repo for his neovim configuration and 200+ plugins behind his back

Haha yeah totally

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

What on earth do you need/use 200+ plugins for? Can you name a tenth of the uses off-hand? 😅

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

A lot of them are dependencies of other plugins.

Stuff like icons support, and every little feature. Neovim is extremely minimalist to start, so you need plugins just to get something as simple as a scrollbar lol

Things like git status of files and file lines, all your LSPs, syntax highlighting (for each language you work with), file explorer, you name it, there's a lot.

But what's nice about nvim is for any of these given features, there's numerous options to pick from. Theres probably a dozen options to choose from for what kind of scrollbar you want in your editor, as an example.

So you end up with a huge amount of plugins in the end, for all your custom stuff you have configured.

You have to setup yourself (though theres a lot of very solid copy pasteable recipes for each feature):

Scrollbar
Tabs(if you want em)
bookmarking
every LSP
treesitter
navigation (possibly multiple of them, I use both a file tree, telescope, and harpoon)
file history stuff
git integrations, including integrating it with the numerous other plugins you use (many of them can integrate with git for stuff like status icons)
Code commenting/uncommenting
Code comment tags (IE TODO/BUG/HACK/etc)
your package manager is also a package (I like lazy for wicked fast open speeds, neovim opens in under 1s for me)
hotkey management (I like to use which-key)
prose plugins (lots of great options here too, I use nvim for more than just coding!)
neorg, so I can use nvim for taking notes, scheduling stuff, etc too
debugger via nvim-dap
debugger UI via nvim-dap-ui
lualine, which is a popular statusline plugin people like to have at the bottom of their IDE for general file info
new-file-template which lets me create templates for new files by extension (IE when I make a .cs file and start editting it, I can pick from numerous templates I've made to start from, same for .ts, .lua, etc etc)
git conflict, which can detect and work with detected git merge conflict sections in any type of file and give me hotkeys to do stuff like pick A / B / Both / Neither, that sorta stuff

The list goes on and on haha

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm not judging (that much) but you can do pretty well with just telescope, undo-tree and the LSP stuff, no? Debuggers can make it very bloated, at that point I'd just fire up a real IDE just for debugging and get back to Vim to program

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I still boot in sub 1s so I don't know what you mean by "bloated"

Lazy allows you to boot ultra fast by loading stuff in the background later, so "bloat" doesn't matter

nvim-dap does literally nothing until you trigger it, so it's only impact on my startup is like 3 hotkey registrations :p

It's a perfectly fine debugger, works great. The fact I can telescope search to fzf my stack trace actually kind of makes it superior? Like you can't do that sorta stuff in any other IDE I know of

Also all my navigation stuff like telescope/harpoon/etc still apply when debugging, so I can literally debug faster jumping around the stack trace with hotkeys.

Neovim doesn't get any less awesome when it comes to debugging, a lot of it's power still applies just as much haha

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

To each their own I guess. 😊 I imagine some people consider the bloat to be that extra IDE you have to have laying around just in case you want to debug something.

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