A Powerful Way To Make Editing Code In Neovim Even Better

Leverage treesitter and syntax aware text objects to take Neovim code editing to the next level and make it even better. Hope you guys enjoy it!
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⏰ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
00:20 - Basic Text Objects
02:59 - Setting Up Treesitter
07:30 - The Syntax Tree
08:16 - Incremental Selection Example
08:42 - Adding Treesitter Text Objects
13:03 - Swapping Text Objects
14:10 - Text Object Movements
16:01 - Repeating Movements
17:06 - Conclusion
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[@JordanShurmer]

Wow! thank you so much. I was just asking around for this sort of thing in a group at work, but didn't get anywhere. Then YT recommends this for me. Excellent production/editing as well, and the detailed blog post. Astounding level of quality

[@maurogarcia2012]

Amazing content as usual, Josean. I saw this video a few months ago and I just go back now that I'm finally getting serious about neovim. Thanks for everything!

[@TheRich107]

Thanks for these videos. I am almost finished setting up neovim with way more functionality than i ever thought was possible with the help of your videos.

[@staystealth]

i love that you explain what every bit of config does as you're typing it

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome, happy to hear that!

[@cristobaljvp]

That repeat config was a life saver for me, thanks for the video!

[@gmosworld]

Amazing video! Content and style are just incredible. I've been vimming for 5 years and I've learned so much from your videos (LSP, formatting, etc), and now this one. And our boy's Boricua too. Pero papa como puede ser!

[@joseanmartinez]

Lo aprecio mucho. Me alegro mucho que te han ayudado los videos! Saludos desde Puerto Rico!

[@DrUBashir]

Incredible presentation. I'm down with a cold and was able to follow this with eyes closed

[@aryanrahman3212]

Really Great content! Simple and elegantly explained, I came into the video thinking how it was gonna be useful for me but you thoroughly convinced of this plugin's usecase. Hoping that more languages get support

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome! Really happy to hear that. Same here, hoping better support for more languages. If you want to add your own custom capture groups not already supported or add support yourself, you can check out the bonus section in the blog post.

[@bassamsaleh8034]

This is excellent content; thank you very much. I appreciate the concise introduction before delving into the specifics. and also the examples

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome! Glad you enjoyed the video and how it’s structured, thanks for the feedback!

[@peterdenham]

You do the best nvim videos! Thanks for sharing.

[@geschichte4u251]

Hey Josean, thanks for an amazing video, it helped me a lot!

[@rickdixon1928]

Excellent video production and excellent presentation skills! Just subbed you. 👍

[@christofferbergj]

I love these videos: great configs and reasonable explanations and examples. Subscribed! 🎉

[@joseanmartinez]

Really appreciate it, thank you for the support!

[@Jose-yu2pd]

Can i just say, the aesthetic decisions of this video are so good!

[@joseanmartinez]

I really appreciate that, thanks for your feedback!

[@codingwithrendi]

your neovim config is super awesome sir, i love it

[@DavidHanks90]

You've seriously helped take my nvim experience to the next level. Love it! Keep up the great work!

[@joseanmartinez]

That’s awesome. Glad I could help!

[@jizhang2407]

Thanks for sharing another amazing video from which I keep learning new tricks of neovim!

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome! Really happy to hear that, glad I could help.

[@volodymyrlozovskyi9975]

Vim Nvim related content is the best! Thanks for sharing!

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome!

[@joeingle1745]

Super video Josean, thank you.

[@wesleychaffin4029]

Damn this rocks!! Thanks for sharing this very useful info!!

[@djbroake9810]

Thank you for this info and how you got all the key stuff you should know in one clear vid.

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome, glad you liked it!

[@giovannifiori]

Awesome content! Keep it up!

[@JunreyBeduya]

This is pretty cool! As a new nvim user - this helps a lot.

[@joseanmartinez]

Happy to hear that!

[@diapollo4949]

thx bro. The tutorial is easy to follow and understand.

[@wojciech-kulik]

Super cool tutorial. Thank you for sharing it!

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@MasterHobbitLoL]

Great f*ing video dude. You content really boosted my vim speed. Much love!

[@FrankJonen]

Looks like it was the right choice to start using Neovim this week.

[@fegyi001]

Quality content, thanks!

[@itshydeofficial]

Beautifully explained. Have been trying to understand how to do exactly this.❤

[@joseanmartinez]

Glad I could help! Thanks for the feedback!

[@HarryMcKenzy]

thanks a lot for sharing. great work, really appreciated =)

[@aaronmcadam]

This is amazing, thanks! But now there are a lot of new commands to learn! I’d build up my keymaps in small chunks to get used to them-there’s nothing worse than having lots of mappings you don’t actually use. However, which-key helps a lot with this problem of remembering which key combination does what.

[@joseanmartinez]

Yeah I totally get it! These are just the ones I came up with but you can configure this however you prefer and build it out slowly. I added which-key to help out in this regard and I’m thinking about putting together a cheatsheet for my config, will try to put one together.

[@suede__]

I need to get that one. A good one for that too is adding a shortcut to do `:Telescope keymaps`. I would definitely start with doing the things I would use absolutely the most.

[@geusefrava960]

This is gold Josean!

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome, happy to hear that!

[@notmyactualname1019]

Great, thank you!

[@mikeg9b]

You are really good at explaining things.

[@joseanmartinez]

Really appreciate it!

[@SerhiyKalinets]

Amazing content. Thank you

[@toomasvendelin]

Many thanks!

[@alonso0188]

Thank you man.

[@codetothemoon]

Fantastic as always!

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you!

[@noisetide]

The paragraphs are very important and that's why in neovim you have to use "VIP" to select it! Very Important Paragraph

[@user-sl9qc6zj5g]

❤

[@keerthivasan5604]

Hello Josean, you're creating some fantastic videos. I sincerely value your efforts. I've completely transitioned to Neovim. Initially, it seemed a bit complex, but now I believe I've got the hang of it. Could you please guide me on configuring the horizontal scrollbar?

[@anatoliipipko7258]

Cool stuff!

[@broncos720z]

Hello Josean! Your videos are great. I think they have a lot of value. One question I could not stop asking, cause I really love the sound of your keyboard. Which switches do you use? The really sound amazing for me.

[@cyrusalthor8583]

Excellent video!

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you for the feedback! Glad you found it helpful.

[@stevedylandev]

Mind is freakin blown; awesome video!!

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome!! Really happy to hear you enjoyed it!

[@akefrandevi6831]

Great Work! Keep it up!

[@joseanmartinez]

Really appreciate it, happy to hear that!

[@yassinmoussaoui3323]

Thanks for these :D

[@joseanmartinez]

Happy to hear that! Thanks for the support!

[@armynyus9123]

top notch. presentation quality *and* content.

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome, happy to hear that, thank you!

[@karimshakirov]

Great content! Thank you!)

[@joseanmartinez]

Really appreciate it

[@JannIdarHillestad]

Cool stuff! I wold really love to see some folding using treesitter. I never got it working properly.

[@johanngambolputty5351]

I did not know about inner haha, definitely something I will have to start using, I use cw so much, but I usually have to put the cursor to the start if I want to change the whole thing... picking it up bit by bit Also the thumbnail kinda got me, I was hoping it might be a framework laptop with a split keyboard

[@whoopsimsorry2546]

thank you!

[@7xr1e20ln8]

First..i see neovim i click

[@joseanmartinez]

🙌🏽

[@hazmat86]

Same, i saw neovim in your comment and now, here i am!

[@Meowmix8088]

don’t click!!! Type gd lol.

[@RazoBeckett.]

same

[@uzumakiuchiha7678]

I don't just click, I sub

[@PatAndCode]

Interesting fact on 1:27 you don't have to go to the brackets manually, provided you're not inside any brackets already and you aren't you just need to be in the same line and "vi[" will jump to the bracket for you. Small thing but really helpful.

[@armynyus9123]

He said that, actually (1:50)

[@PatAndCode]

@@armynyus9123 right, I missed that or got too excited to share it 😅 pick one

[@armynyus9123]

@@PatAndCode Clearly Nr. 2. (n)vim is a way of life and bragging rights about personal skills are part of that ;-)

[@PatAndCode]

​@@armynyus9123 correct :D

[@syn8485]

Oh, I wasn't aware that import was so powerful with lazy. I'm still using the old way of doing things with ftplugin/plugin/after/etc because I didn't want to make a bunch of import statements in my lazy declaration, but TIL you can just point to a directory, that changes everything!

[@vatsalrajchauhan2983]

I love it baby

[@armynyus9123]

Thanks!

[@joseanmartinez]

Really appreciate it! Glad you found it helpful!

[@ZephyrCheez]

I swear to god the second the video started I saw your keyboard and was reminded of that "what your text editor says about you" video where they said neovim users use split keyboards

[@Thundechile]

Great video! @joseanmartinez One thing that I noticed was that for some reason when you type curly braces (that is: { and } ), the video shows like you had typed brackets ( [ or ] ) in the right top of the video. That could be a bit confusing, maybe there's some bug in the keyboard prompter?

[@raidensama1511]

Is there away to select a particular word within a camel/snake case variable name?

[@cmdeckermusic]

Josean, I need help. I love this video, but after installing Treesitter, I can :InspectTree but the colors are all white. I changed the theme, but I still got really minimal color differences in the different text elements. Any help would be awesome.

[@tonyjaradev]

omfg these tips are fire

[@joseanmartinez]

Happy to hear that!

[@tonyjaradev]

@@joseanmartinez If you don't mind I have a question. You're a typescript guy too. How are you doing code actions since null-ls is no longer maintained? I'm really missing the import all action. I peaked your setup a little bit and saw you also use conform. I do not want to fully go back to none-ls, conform is way too good.

[@joseanmartinez]

@@tonyjaradev Hey! So didn’t know there was an import all code action for typescript actually? What were you using with null-ls for this? My recommendation would be that you could use none-ls solely for those features you’re missing, disable/remove any formatting sources, and continue using conform.nvim for formatting

[@tonyjaradev]

@@joseanmartinez Fix all/import all like vscode has. Apparently it's not as easy to implement, Null-ls had a typescript.extensions.null-ls.code-actions that you put as your source and it would give you that. I'm going to try it with none-ls and see how it works.

[@joseanmartinez]

@@tonyjaradev cool!

[@OtivDev]

Great video, but how do you remember all of those keybindings? I set up extra text objects a few times, but pretty much never use them because I forget which ones exist...

[@CipherOne]

Dope

[@rivaldolawalata6977]

very nice videos, i wonder can you make a video about how to setup go for neovim? that would be amazing

[@nguyenngocquangminh9278]

How can i have the tokyonight transparent like you?, i love your vim config and did everything by your video. When i set the transparent for tokyonight my it worked but my nvim tree didn't. I searched and they said about NvimTreeNormal but it just worked when the Nvimtree is active.

[@MiguelDevOps]

Hello how do you do the transparent background with the video?

[@12px]

I love neovim

[@joseanmartinez]

🚀

[@flywithoutwingss]

Hi, what font do you use ? Thanks

[@alvarobernar]

Hi Josean! Thanks for your videos, they are super helpful. Could you create a video of how to navigate files fast with neovim? Using marks, buffer commands, telescope, lsp related commands like gd and harpoon!

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome! Really appreciate it. Yeah I’ve been considering putting a video like this together, it’s a great idea, thank you for the feedback!

[@subbunittala2012]

please make a video on integrating neovim + obsidian ...i heard it was very good !

[@HunterRoMike]

What keyboard are you using?

[@Scorpisces1911]

Could I use neovim for remote development?

[@xtrailz]

The keyboard looks interesting. Do you have a video about it?

[@casino130]

I can't get :Mason to install "clang-format" or "python-lsp-server"

[@user-qt3dk1vw7c]

I use your nvim config. Very cool!! but I wanna tailwindcss colorizer cmp. how to add that your config file?

[@martinlarsson6621]

I would love to use this, but it's a major turn off for me to have my setup work differently in different languages, and the text-objects seem to vary heavily, I use mostly the C-family which is lacking ...

[@TheAS2609]

Loved the video. Quick q, mind sharing how you're able to put the transparent terminal over your cam in the video. Looks really good!

[@joseanmartinez]

Happy to hear you enjoyed it! Thanks for the feedback! I do a screen recording of the terminal while I also record myself with a camera and then put the terminal screen recording footage over my camera footage and lower its opacity to make it transparent in post production.

[@TheAS2609]

@@joseanmartinez nice. The text looks very clear, do you just lower the opacity on the full video or somehow manage to only lower it on the background?

[@joseanmartinez]

@@TheAS2609 For some reason lowering the opacity hasn’t affected the clarity of the text. Also, I lower it only slightly, if you were to lower it a large amount then you’d probably lose a good amount of text clarity as well.

[@roychoo]

nice video, how do i navigate to the start of the function name? instead of start of function keyword

[@JasonJurotich]

how did you get your corne keyboard to work on top of your mac keyboard without affecting the keys below it? Or was that just for show?

[@joseanmartinez]

I use karabiner elements to do that. In Devices > Advanced, you can configure it so that the built in keyboard is disabled whenever your corne keyboard is connected

[@JasonJurotich]

@@joseanmartinez understood! yes, I have karabiner. Makes perfect sense. You might want to explain that in a video as well. I don't know how many know about karabiner. Thanks!!

[@joseanmartinez]

@@JasonJurotich Cool, thanks for the feedback!

[@eissa178]

Thanks for the efforts on this, pretty awesome. I have an issue with telescope (I think)(although I see the issue also on tree file). I have a NestJS project using typescript and for some reason, when using telescope it displays the same file but also the .js version e.g. utils.ts (main file) and utils.js (non-existing file). And same for everything ts file. Does anyone know anything about this?

[@MaxwellLysle]

I can't get the keymaps to work. I already had TS-textobjects setup, and my other keymaps work, but the queries assignment.inner and outer don't seem to do anything. I tested in lua and C++ files. Edit: It doesn't work for C++, and doesn't consider everything with an equal sign inbetween to be an assignment in lua I guess.

[@joseanmartinez]

Yeah that’s the one significant caveat for this, that some languages are lacking support. I have a bonus section in the blog post for adding your own custom capture groups that aren’t already supported in case you’re interested.

[@ionutbocancea3023]

Hello! Awesome video! Can you make a video and show how to setup dap for neovim. I tried to set it up with lazyvim, but with no success. Also it was harder to set it up in my case, because I was working on a monorepo project. Thanks! Cheers!

[@joseanmartinez]

Hey! Thanks! I have it in the list, we’ll see when I get around to putting it together as it can be a tricky topic to cover. Appreciate the feedback!

[@JamieAlban]

why does va" select the adjacent space? I've always wondered this

[@JamieAlban]

I found out I can map va" et al to v2i" to get my expected behaviour: vim.keymap.set({ 'n', 'v', 'o', 'x' }, 'a"', '2i"') vim.keymap.set({ 'n', 'v', 'o', 'x' }, "a'", "2i'") vim.keymap.set({ 'n', 'v', 'o', 'x' }, 'a`', '2i`') (see :help a")

[@frapelinolv4274]

Isnt di symbol and ci symbol an vim festure and not explicitly neovims?

[@user-hh4br5tk5p]

Thanks.

[@joseanmartinez]

Glad you found it helpful!

[@user-hh4br5tk5p]

@@joseanmartinez Very useful indeed, I am going to rewatch it now. Wish you the best.

[@joseanmartinez]

@@user-hh4br5tk5p Thank you!

[@a_maxed_out_handle_of_30_chars]

this video was recorded on 3rd october 🤣 nonetheless good video :)

[@jamesaffleck4192]

What kind of laptop is that. I didn't know you could get laptops with such ergonomic keyboards built-in.

[@BogusAmogusss]

Chad

[@mariusz7238]

Imagine you can jump forward and backward between function definitions but you can't ctrl+shift+o like in vscode and just find what you want

[@pratiktiwari5689]

Is there any way I can just get your config and install locally without alot of hassel?

[@joseanmartinez]

Sure, you can try cloning it from my github repository linked in the description and placing the nvim config in "~/.config/nvim" (linux or mac). Windows would be "~/AppData/Local/nvim/". You'll need to install some extra things as described in the repo for everything to work properly like a Nerd Font.

[@themarksmith]

Your videos are excellent but on watching them I feel that learning to use neovim productively is almost as involved as learning a programing language... vs code with vim plugin for me... but I do enjoy your vids...

[@joseanmartinez]

Totally understand that. Neovim is a whole world in and of itself. There’s new stuff I’m discovering about it all of the time and things can get tricky at times. My goal with these videos is to shed some light on different topics and make them easier to understand as they can be quite complex. It’s really up to you the route you prefer to take and that’ll make you most productive. Glad you like the videos!

[@MaxwellLysle]

By the way, you can combine the config for treesitter with the one for textobjects into one.

[@joseanmartinez]

Yeah! That should also work! Thanks for the feedback.

[@s-xj6ju]

please create updated video on neovim setup for newbees! nobody can explain better than you champ!

[@user-hh4br5tk5p]

If I can ask, how do you obtain true transparency? I see that you achieved true transparency even in your browser. When I say true transparency, I mean that only the bakcground of the program is transparent, but not the text in it.

[@joseanmartinez]

I'm not entirely sure exactly how it works, but in Final Cut Pro at least, I lower the opacity only very slightly on my screen recording and the dark background fades but the text is still very clear. If I lower the opacity a very large amount, then the text also fades away.

[@user-hh4br5tk5p]

I see. It is very nice, well done! Take care of yourself, Josean!

[@joseanmartinez]

@@user-hh4br5tk5p Thank you! Same to you.

[@dscham1507]

I always look at vim videos an think, wow that's really cool and fast. But then I see how many shortcuts I'd have to memorize and think, shit, I'm way to lazy to be that lazy. Then my mouse hand starts to hurt, but I guess that's the pain I have to live with.

[@martinnoblia7751]

you dont need to move to the object if the object is in the line

[@abhinavlakhani5637]

Is this a reupload? I feel like I saw this vid couple of weeks ago 🤔

[@joseanmartinez]

Nope, this is brand new.

[@ooogabooga5111]

Thank you first of all. Thats too much keymaps for me, I think it will slow me down, I'm good with simple keymaps in this like the swaps of params, selection of params, functions, classes inside and outside. simple section like whats on right and left of = is just unnecessory imo. I guess it helps javascript functional expressions, will see.... for most cases I could use forward/back with 'f" and 'F'.

[@cb73]

After 20 years as a programmer I have finally realized that the mouse is the worst input device to ever been invented, at least for coding. I’m constantly frustrated by it. I keep buying different mice in hopes of finding one that gets out of my way. They all seem to have minds of their own. Sometimes it will scroll when I don’t want it to or it doesn’t scroll enough. I’m desperate to finally learn how to use the keyboard.

[@bonquaviusdingle5720]

u should try a trackpad

[@mariusz7238]

​@@bonquaviusdingle5720Why? Why would anyone use that? Worst pointing device ever.

[@windowsrefund]

What you call "folders" are actually "directories".