I Rewrote My Entire Neovim Config...

I rewrote my entire neovim config... because of twitch chat. Small informal series about some of the stuff I was working on :)
Links
Twitch: / teej_dv
Twitter: / teej_dv
Github: github.com/tjdevries
Neovim: BTW
#neovim #programming #lua

[@VovaY]

Did you rewrite it from zero? Or from 1?

[@harshmpatil]

From 0, nobody counts like that, obviously from 1

[@teej_dv]

yes

[@nasso_]

this is my favourite comment

[@romainvincent7346]

@@harshmpatil Well ackshually... I usually count time from 0, because that way when I say 1, a full second has passed, which is correct. Not a joke, but still a joke.

[@vaisakhkm783]

@@romainvincent7346 you should count backwards

[@rayantovi]

I can never get enough of neovim content, YES WE WOULD LIKE MORE OF THIS

[@teej_dv]

Four more vids coming!

[@kranzaklilu496]

10 seconds in and I learned about tree + tokei. wow!

[@teej_dv]

[@KettLovahr]

tree is indispensable to me and i am always caught off-guard when i'm in a fresh install and it's not there.

[@maxwebstudio]

tree . -I node_modules (-I for ignore) is my favorite

[@charstringetje]

​@@maxwebstudio I write rm -rf node_modules; opam install melange for ignore.

[@tokisuno]

tj is my biological father

[@teej_dv]

monkaS

[@tokisuno]

@@teej_dv start paying foss child support dad

[@supernerd6983]

Noooo that's IMPOSSIBLE!!!

[@frederickmichaud6783]

It’s important to note that throughout the rewrite process, Teej was focused.

[@teej_dv]

heh heh heh heh

[@TechBuddy_]

How focused are we talking 😉

[@frederickmichaud6783]

@@TechBuddy_ oh, it’s focused.

[@johnymcjesus]

This style of video is my favorite! Please do more! I love learning new interesting stuff about neovim!

[@jordanray1537]

Love this, super good for exposing us newbies to some interesting options in our config!

[@teej_dv]

That's definitely the goal!

[@adampaul7905]

I like the format of the video. Nice quick and clear. Gives a lot of ideas to be better and faster in neovim.

[@daltonyon]

I love this video, short and precise!! I'm thinking in move from Packer to Lazy, and probably will use your video like reference. Furthermore, I use a lot of replace and like too much of your tip about inccommand, very useful!!! Thanks Tj

[@meatsong]

Really appreciated this one. I started learning C++ as my first language ~6 months ago and had been using lazyvim up until last week because I had no idea what was going on in that .config folder and lazyvim let me continue to not have to find out lol. Decided it was time to change that, so I got a crisp clone of kickstart and started squinting. After a couple of evenings, I realized I'd idioted my way to a perfect little config that I'm totally in love with! Your bit about leaning into the way Lazy lets you organize your plugins was what I happened to need to hear to make what I'd been doing last week click. Thank you!

[@ebmpinyuri]

Thanks Teej , i never understood how to activate the Alt key for my keymaps with the Meta key until i saw your config ,really helpful

[@ChrisPatti]

totally love this! I will admit that I struggle a bit with the ocaml and elixir stuff. My tiny brain can’t accept all those new programming languages but bite sized neovim vids like this? Priceless :-)

[@guzmonne]

Love this simple talking head videos with a couple of insights and cool things to think about when working with NeoVim or the terminal in general.

[@sunnyheheheh9401]

we really like this sort of videos, clear and concise and getting to learn stuff from a core neovim maintainer is really awesome. I would really like to see more such videos, thanks.

[@noomondai]

Love this style of vid looking forward to more TJ

[@wolfisraging]

You use NeoVim to use NeoVim... that's true singularity

[@marshallformula]

Love these type of videos. Thanks for doing them

[@lukasmolcic5143]

I started using nvim by watching your video about setting up kickstart, its been a couple of months now and I am already regularly saying "vim btw", I can say I am deeply hooked, I've seen the light. Besides that your way of explaining and your discipline of memorizing every manual out there makes you an incredible educator for this topic. I think that there might be a lot of other people who get in to nvim through that video in the same way I did, and videos like this one really help to take the next step further on that vim journey, so yes, definitely more videos like this is always going to be incredibly valuable for us noobs out there.

[@BvngeeCord]

Absolutely love this series! Learned more than you can imagine in just a few minutes!

[@teej_dv]

Glad to hear it :)

[@JuanRomero-bc9lc]

This was great content, I barely ever comment, but I enjoyed this way too much. It's hard for me to find nvim content which is both digestible and useful. Loving this full dedication to teaching and showing off knowledge in and interesting manner.

[@CheapHomeTech]

Yes, please keep making videos like these. I got some good ideas from this one.

[@teej_dv]

Four more coming this week 😁

[@akshettrj]

I won't mind seeing more such videos. Love 'em

[@teej_dv]

Four more coming this week 😁

[@TayTayChan]

Stoked for this series

[@petrpechkurov3095]

Good stuff, TJ! Thank for the video!!

[@gabrielrotela2220]

Sí, hacé más videos de estos... Gracias!

[@21greg7]

I like it! Please Sir may I have more?

[@teej_dv]

don't tell anyone but there will be one every day through friday this week :)

[@sleepyschamane]

I really liku these kinds of videos!

[@GabrielLima-gz8zg]

Thanks for the great contribution to Neovim community!!!

[@djunho]

I like this kind of vídeos. Thanks for sharing

[@uzumakiuchiha7678]

I will always have love and respect for you sir. Always

[@mailman2097]

A series would be good.. with neovim its difficult to ingest all the topics at once 1. Basic Configuration 2. Aesthetics (colours, fonts) 3. Kickstart concepts 4. IDE like features : navigator, panes, tabs etc.. 5. Mouse integration (optional) 6. Go (syntax highlight / plugin / debugger) 7. Java (syntax highlight / plugin / debugger) [optional] 8. Neovim in Windows etc.. This would definitely be a repeat of your earlier content or may be a playlist is all that's needed

[@maniac5411]

Yes, we need more of this ❤

[@danieldosen5260]

These are great! Easily digestible.

[@dmytruek]

wow, now i have to add a few cool things to my config too, thanks!

[@NoctuaDeveloppement]

Love this format ❤

[@teej_dv]

Thanks!!

[@user-xd5gd4pc9h]

Cannot wait more!

[@calleum]

Great vid tj!

[@teej_dv]

Thanks, great comments! Haha

[@thepatzer]

This was great. Would love more of these. (As an aside, it's strange when YT silently removes comments. What's up with that?)

[@twenty-fifth420]

TJ is going to be like the Thor of Neovim streamers; chat making up things to both punish and purposely play around with his life 😂. Also, I know sometimes a cloc/sloc count may not be a full picture, but I just love you have more Scheme then JSON, TXT and Rust Ever considered picking up a Lisp for a sub goal?

[@someone_1614]

awesome video as always

[@gwerneckpaiva]

never thought id be getting a neovim tutorial from Peeta Mellark

[@fakedevdutt]

I just joined the channel and I want to say! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!

[@teej_dv]

No one knows

[@ericlindell3777]

Great vid!

[@rodelias9378]

Great video TJ. Taller and shorter?? Genius!!

[@greatotool]

love it

[@yevhenorlov]

that "like & subscribe" was really smooth

[@arnoeagleeyes]

Hey, thank you for your great video's. I learn a lot from them. You are a great teacher. Maybe i can give you a suggestion for a topic ? For example. I use Neorg for note taking. But also Codeum, which is annoying when you are just taking notes. So i have to manually do :Codeum DisableBuffer everytime. And i have more of these situations. The problem is, where and how to add this command in config file, because i find lua a bit confusing at times. There is setup function, there is opts tables etc. Maybe you could explain that in a video ? Tx ;-)

[@sayo9394]

mate, is it possible you have the shortcuts show up on video? Again, thanks heaps for recording these videos and sharing them.

[@iusehjkl]

yes, master, tips please

[@bpo217]

In response: I like this style of video.

[@Idyll_Insomniac]

Hoping we get these streams as VODs? Similar to the updating kickstart playlist?

[@kajuken]

good stuff

[@JoelJosephReji]

doesn't lazy not work well with after directory? because essentially, if you define a plugin configuration in after, lazy considers the plugin to have been accessed already and that would make it lose the lazy loading?

[@Bleppacus]

For someone that tried to use nvim in the past but couldn't be arsed, as this someone has skill issues, this is golden. I'm still not going to use it as i'm still as lazy, but still.

[@dylanjohnson8008]

we like this content

[@mona.supremacy]

This man is an international treasure

[@vaisakhkm783]

Can you go though source code of popular configs like lazyvim, lunarvim , astronvim etc and how it's structured, find tips from it that we can add for personal config etc also if possible can you make a video teaching plugin dev best practices, how to decouple different parts, how to choose between TS and LSP for certain ideas, even though there is overlap between both

[@erlangparasu6339]

keymaps about execute current line is +1

[@Skaiiur]

COOL! KEEPGOIN TEEJ!

[@victoralmanzar1273]

Hey TJ what tiling manager do you use?

[@sujanbasnet7868]

yesss!!

[@antidotejack2771]

I would like to see a series of vim configuration for dummies.

[@JonLikesStats]

This video reminds me how bad my split and terminal workflow is right now.

[@teej_dv]

Hopefully it reminded you in a helpful way 😂

[@emil_io]

Love da video

[@TheLANBeforeTime-uo9ph]

Wow that “tokei” thing, I’m gonna check what it is😮

[@aidanium]

Perhaps I've been doing something wrong, but adding files to ~/.config/nvim/plugin doesn't seem to be sourcing them on start up for me, like it does in the video. My config is a slightly modified version of kickstart, so maybe there's something in TJ's init.lua that's not in there? Does anyone have any ideas?

[@julianomoraisbarbosa]

tj moreeeeeeeee

[@drewbradford7608]

I like videos like this :)

[@teej_dv]

You're in luck, because four more are coming this week!

[@ethanholz3733]

What’s the advantage of using a ftplugin vs a filetype autocommand?

[@radvilardian740]

1. TJ 2. Folke 4. Primeagen. This how I count in my guru order, and please do not ask for zero😄

[@maxwebstudio]

tokei is sweeeet

[@datoxx7977]

Nice

[@gjermundification]

8:03 How would I make neovim execute the current visual selection?

[@matthieuducorps8729]

Thanks I need more of those to finally switch from VIM😂

[@teej_dv]

vim is great! no need to switch if it's doing everything you like :)

[@matthieuducorps8729]

@@teej_dv Sorry, didn't put the context. My current VIM is the one I used to learn and start with. It's bloated with plugins - lots of them are not maintained anymore - and I Is getting slow. I need a fresh start with a small set of plugins then I prefer to use lua instead of vim scripts. Nothing against VIM in any way.

[@Kunal-k-u-m-a-r]

hey tj , i am not able to install gopls server on my vscode , it says unable to find directry or no such file located ...

[@MohammadLsk]

Hi great video Don't you use tmux? I want to know why you use Vim's terminal popup instead of a tmux pane.

[@teej_dv]

I don't use tmux

[@mona.supremacy]

I stuck with Tmux. Why would I use an unreliable inflexible terminal that has me to press as many keys as Tmux pane/window to get to and covers the code I'm working with, when I could just have a pane to the side and switch between them, zoom in/out, look at the code as I work in the terminal, spawn as many of those as needed, copy and search over stdout etc Tmux also gives me a lot of power outside of Neovim, especially when goes hand in hand with oh-my-zsh(3 plugins: theme, autocompletions, syntax highlighting) and a combo of zoxide + fdfind + fzf

[@teej_dv]

nice! I don't have anything against tmux (or other multiplexers), I just don't use one haha

[@mona.supremacy]

@@teej_dv I'm sorry that u felt personally attacked by my reply to the OP. No way I would jump on you like that, man. Although, I'm a bit surprised to hear that a popup terminal satisfies your needs. Have a nice day

[@jamestansx289]

How to scroll up and down on the preview window of inccommand?

[@chrisjames278]

Nice, look forward to the rest! Thanks

[@teej_dv]

Thanks!!

[@_bitties]

How was i not subscribed before

[@alexott50]

At 10:12, what was that window at the bottom?

[@nasso_]

how did you keep only one status line with window splits??

[@nasso_]

ok i found it opt.laststatus = 3

[@idk-nv]

Could telescope show line number on pickers?

[@pookiepats]

Lol as if this is any surprise for a neovim user 😂. Always justifying and validating the effort

[@elixirfun]

Anyone can help make -kind of mappings work on macOS in Alacritty and Neovim?

[@ChecedRodgers]

Ay Brave Browser!

[@Kane0123]

Custom config? I just need my editor out of the way so I can code ;)

[@teej_dv]

Jokes on you! I code to config my editor!!

[@mohitkumar-jv2bx]

No dunking on arch users??? 😮

[@teej_dv]

I felt I was getting too predictable. I don't want them to expect the joke. I want the element of surprise.

[@mohitkumar-jv2bx]

@@teej_dv Spoken like a true Standup🫡

[@teej_dv]

leaving this comment lets me know the strategy is working LUL

[@TheUmangTarang]

Bruhh again

[@a_maxed_out_handle_of_30_chars]

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[@teej_dv]

,

[@a_maxed_out_handle_of_30_chars]

i thought of testing this as you said comment anything :)

[@andrespedraza8939]

This smells to unemployment

[@spicybaguette7706]

467 views in 21 minutes? TJ really fell off

[@teej_dv]

I MISS THE OLD TJ. THE TALKS ABOUT ONE INDEXING TJ

[@upsidedownChad]

First

[@teej_dv]

good work chad

[@andrii7879]

I'm glad you count from 1