The Only Video You Need to Get Started with Neovim

[@Feenskee]

That opening sequence was Oscar worthy

[@teej_dv]

Thanks, i'll add that to my resume

[@fuzzy-02]

Hmm! Hmm!

[@scigama71]

Agreed

[@johnc3403]

@@teej_dv I think he meant Oscar Pistorius

[@Sapientiaa]

@@teej_dvNone of the cmp 🔌 will load.

[@ArcRCG]

Newbie here and I feel like I'm living the golden age of neovim.

[@arisweedler4703]

Every month you can say: it’s better than it was a month ago

[@andypsolomon]

you are, thank god for lua

[@JoseGarcia-qq6sk]

We are. I am having a blast with it

[@colinkennedy]

Just wait til we reach platinum age of Neovim!

[@andypsolomon]

@@netdavis its never been a hate relationship for me. Always loved it.

[@mohitkumar-jv2bx]

"For all my single users, pacman". Truth shots fired.

[@teej_dv]

hahahaha just glad the joke came across well.

[@CortesCurtis]

Hahahahaha I laughed out loud at this!

[@k3rvyn]

Just stopped at 24:45 to write this! So good

[@familyshare3724]

My wife prefers her espresso black, thanks! * (where "wife" is a mac of course)

[@JBatesProductions]

@@teej_dv ;) Really good video btw

[@ducktordanny]

It's nice to see an update! After your first kickstart video I started to use NeoVim and since then I just love it! 🙏🏻

[@teej_dv]

Thanks! Hopefully you like this one as well!!

[@emmanuelchucks]

Same

[@TheArchimede]

Welcome to the dark side

[@trickymaster499]

bro i am not able to use neovim on windows would you help me

[@bkbrad1220]

@@trickymaster499 WSL2 my guy

[@256k_]

your first kickstart last year was a great jumping off point to me with my neovim config. i did just that, took it, removed a bunch of stuff, added a bunch of stuff and modified a bunch of stuff to make it do what i want. it's the perfect starting ground for someone who wants to get started quickly with some sensible plugins and default mappings but doesn't want to be trapped by a distribution or someone else's "layer" great job TJ. the passion and effort that you and the neovim core team put into neovim is truly felt. thank you all for the great work.

[@KangoV]

As a >50 year old. I'm just starting on my NeoVim journey. I'm a Java dev, but want to use Nvim for stuff like terraform, k8s manifests, bash, yaml, json etc etc. Hard part is getting all those key maps into my old brain.

[@teej_dv]

That's so cool!! Ya, getting them to stick in the brain is hard. Check out ":Telescope keymaps" it might help you

[@FrankBroniewski]

Ha, I'm also 50+, so you're not alone with learning all of this. But seriously, the :Tutor for the motions is where the magic happens for me. Check that out! Something like di( to delete everything between () is just so cool 👍

[@kyle8575]

vim-be-good is how I got started. Was in the same boat, not really getting the keys down. For a week I fired up vim-be-good daily, spent 15 minutes doing various tasks. After that, started my deep dive.

[@Analoggruetze]

I've started using nvim last year, at 47. Thought I'd continue running VS Code in parallel for "serious work" while starting out with nvim for fiddling with simple config files, but somehow immediately used nvim for everything and never looked back. I'm far from knowing all the keys but I feel like it's possible to do most of the work with a basic set of keys, and then I learn a new trick every now and then, when I want to do something faster (today I learned / + cgn). Kickstart FTW 👍

[@demolazer]

​@@AnaloggruetzeI find you can be as productive as a traditional editor with only very basic key maps.

[@juangiordana]

The comments on the reasoning around the key mappings has been very useful to me. I'm always confused about what the standard is in regards to key mappings. Thanks a lot for these videos!

[@zeratax]

your videos are all so good. they’re so concise and focused

[@teej_dv]

thank you!! I really appreciate it. Glad you feel that way, it's good to hear the hard work is paying off :)

[@milestobudapest]

Just started my neovim journey this year and you have been an excellent source of reliable, concise and helpful information. Big thank you from me!

[@julien6331]

Haven't seen the full video yet but I have played with the kickstart for 3h. The documentation effort is incredible. That would by my fifth attempt at nvim... I never sticked simply because each time I grew tired of having to look for information for hours just to know how to do simple stuff or cobble things together. You guys managed to make it incredibly easy and enjoyable. I'm jumping left and right on the different helpers and learning so much without feeling lost or having to go look elsewhere. Again, just incredible. Tysm for all your hard work on this.

[@dekaaizer2550]

Sounds like you should give Helix-editor a try. It's a more modern spin on vim with all the essentials build in.

[@ThomasKunze-m2f]

Brilliant! I have seen neovim for the first in action last week on youtube. I used kickstart to learn about vim and neovim this week. Now I have a fully self configured development environment for Rust, Python, Svelte, Flutter, shell, terraform with trouble, neotest, nvim-tree tighly integrated with telescope and whichkey. The kickstart project and this video helped me from not even knowing what vim and neovim exactly is to uninstalling all other editors and riding neovim.

[@justcorsin]

Greatly appreciate all of the work you do!

[@AhmadMughal1]

Lua really has pushed neovim to a different level of popularity. Love seeing people find this tool and seeing how powerful it is.

[@jgttech]

Holy crap this was amazing! TJ you killed it! This is the kind of thing I have been SEARCHING for, for about 6 months switching to Neovim from VS Crap.

[@trickymaster499]

hi do you use neovim in windows

[@jgttech]

@@trickymaster499 No, I am not a masochist. I use Linux, specifically Fedora and Arch on GTK.

[@bbfh-yt]

I'm not new to neovim, but after watching this video I decided to remake my config using this awesome kickstart. It looks great

[@JohnrickIngles]

A lot of effort was done here. Thank you for helping the Community TJ

[@123louisb]

Amazing video, thanks. I started neovim with your previous version of kickstart and I love how the documentation helps newbies like myself understand how (neo)vim works in general ! Thanks for the work you do.

[@teej_dv]

That's the goal! So glad I'm hitting the mark!!

[@trickymaster499]

bro do you use windows

[@the_worst_coconut]

I really like this approach to making tools more discoverable and noob-friendly without giving up the power user features. Thanks

[@flaviodiez]

I've watched about 10 different videos on Vim/NVim config and followed through... Between having 10 different approaches to organisation and to remapping, but also watching a video just to realize down the line that I needed to switch to Lua, or the package manager is not supported, do I use mason or not, which auto-complete, etc... it is exhausting. This is the best video (and way)! It gives you an opinionated starter but this video and the incode comments give you all the info for you to take control. Thank you so much!!!

[@SayedAli-gq8bl]

Literally this morning I was watching your old video on this topic. I put it for Watch Later 😅 Thanks for the update. Great work. And thanks for the whole neovim thing in general. You guys rock.

[@Phil-x-Phil]

give a man a neovim config and you feed him for a year. teach a man to configure neovim and you feed him for a lifetime. Great video!

[@fuzzy-02]

Or give him any IDE? Now if he wants a promotion... keke (lol)

[@scrung]

@@fuzzy-02not every IDE is great for every language, but some text editors like nvim or even vscode let you work on any project in any language

[@stefanalecu9532]

​@@scrungalthough some languages are most useful in an IDE (for instance, Java or C# or Delphi). What I tend to find is that I use IDEs for compiled languages if a good option is available and text editors for scripting languages, markup languages, stuff like that.

[@scrung]

@@stefanalecu9532 but you can do everything an IDE does in the CLI, except faster. not that IDEs are bad per se, it's just that a graphical IDE wont compile ur project faster or be any more performant

[@stanislavantic8504]

❤Thanks! Great video, I used AstroNvim distro, but this config is really good starting point for personal nvim init file

[@teej_dv]

Thanks :) glad you think so!!

[@fullofpancakes]

I've been using a cobbled together, but working, config for close to a year now. I've started rewriting it with kickstart and have already learned a ton. Thanks for all the neovim greatness, TJ!

[@SnowDaemon]

I was there live for this video and also for you working on Kickstart. This was a service to the community. Thanks Teej

[@Nonsense116]

This is precisely the update video that was needed! Your first kickstart video is what got me moved away vscode and into neovim. It allowed me to have fun but I didn't really understand how to find things in the manual and find my own path to build it how I like. I've been looking all over for something like this. Thank you!

[@michaelhollis5749]

Just reinstalled Kickstart and I'm loving it now, having dove deeper into more languages and understand how the plugins are structured and written. Absolutely love how it's ready, out-of the box, and I just have to tinker with a couple minor things to get the setup I need. Using it for Go and C development, and it's amazing, TJ. Nowhere near as daunting as I thought it was before and don't have to worry about conflicts in the plugins. Keep up the amazing work!

[@sarojregmi200]

Yoo!!! The intro is amazing and made me laugh 😂

[@teej_dv]

Thanks

[@leon.matheus]

You are a blessing to this world when I grow up I want to be half the craftsman and educator you already are.

[@stefanalecu9532]

You managed to convince an Emacs nerd to try out nvim finally. I've been trying to avoid it out of laziness and stubbornness (both b/c of Emacs and because of Vim). I might even incorporate some of the ideas in Kickstart in my own Evil Mode config in Emacs as well as how Kickstart itself is organized. Kudos to you, Teej

[@shanekunz]

I think I tried to watch this 8 months ago and sort of got lost and gave up. This time I did the :Tutor again, watched Lua in 100 seconds, and went through this video, and actually understood a decent amount of what's going on and why neovim is awesome. Moving on up in the world. It's nice to revisit things and see that I may have gotten smarter or something.

[@fam1u]

Amazing video! Will recommend this to anyone who wants to get started with Neovim from now on.

[@sebastianmangelsen8056]

I really appreciate for your contribution to the Neovim community. This add soo much value to my daily life as programmer.

[@teej_dv]

that's so great to hear!!

[@adamdrake39]

As a neovim convert I can’t believe more people don’t use it. It’s honestly a great editor.

[@zicraftian]

I am so thankful for this resource! Being a beginner to the neovim community, all of these new concepts seen so daunting. I really had no idea how I would learn how to configure vim (or use it). This helps sooo much!

[@Al-ws7cn]

Been using Neovim for a year or so, made and remade my config many times, mostly copy pasting things together without completely understanding how everything worked. Well this video changed everything, now that I feel a bit more confident simply using vim/neovim as an editor I am taking the next step in understanding and customizing it and this video/walkthrough has helped clarify so much, huge thank you TJ! Well done :)

[@alexnik1181]

I was recently searching for how to enable the highlight when yanking, and now I have an example. Thank you, I will give a star to the kickstart and use it.

[@asimami]

I have been using NvChad so far to get used to moving around in neovim and this is an excellent video for someone like me to learn how to properly build configs.

[@friendly__drone9352]

This is the best walktrough i've found so far. Goes into details but doesn't overload you with information like others

[@AsheAve]

Going to watch this several times. Such a great project. Started with NVChad...It was too prebuilt. Restarted with Primagean, love him, but too crazy. This is a perfect starting place for anyone who doesn't get NeoVim. Thank you TJ.

[@ProfShibe]

I'm in LITERALLY the exact same boat hahaha. I'll stick with this one thanks

[@vikingthedude]

“Effective Neovim” got me into neovim. Its great to see an update!

[@MMASTROCINQUE]

This right here broke the barrier for me starting with nvim on windows without needing to install wsl, or manually configure mingw, clang, cygwin, or anything else. This is clear, concise, and with three commands I am up and running. Well done.

[@maxwebstudio]

Probably the best Vim config explanation I've been through so far. Thanks

[@teej_dv]

Thank you!!

[@Susu-yl7rq]

This project is so awesome. I tried Neovim and I got stuck on the basics. This project helped me to enjoy learning Neovim. Thank you.

[@3ckortreat]

i am using neovim for 5 years but your configs showed me many plugins and options that i didn't know about, i am updating my configs according to yours right now so many usefull stuff, thank you for your effort!!!! THE VIM GOD!!

[@lucasalonso5980]

i think that the best part of this video its that you are pushed to read the manual, i never setup a own nvim config, now i have all that i need with 50 lines of code. GREAT JOB

[@teej_dv]

LETS GO!!! That's definitely one of the goals :)

[@deltron1465]

I managed to set up Neovim by following another video with a different configuration, everything worked out of the box with some tweaks but I was really looking for some good article or video explaining each part of the configuration in more details. Truly a gem this video is to start my journey into learning Neovim so I can customize it to my needs, instead of using someone else configuration

[@rubinbhandari124]

Clear and concise. Shared the video with my colleagues who wanted to start out with neovim but wanted something usable out of box .

[@shafitron]

Loved it. Kickstart adheres to the "Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible." nugget from Alan Kay. Thanks TJ for your work!

[@hotpog504]

Normally I don’t ever leave comments, I couldn’t resist subscribing after that powerful delivery at 13:00

[@bartvandeenen]

Man, what a good project and video! I tried a few of the neovim distributions (NvChad, LazyVim, ...), and tried getting c++ working, but I kept struggling! This project is finally causing neovim to make sense! Thanks!!!!

[@fromjavatohaskell909]

2:37 In order for icons to be displayed properly user need to setup console font with icon support - for example one of Nerd Fonts

[@mydanty]

the microscopically soft editor, aka VSC*** blip was incredible. 10/10 for this masterpiece of video

[@TroubleChute]

I have literally just started my Arch journey and I have a bad typing habit of only using 4 fingers. I can touch type but very inneficiantly. I'm getting into nvim as a vscode main, and need to be accurate with key presses. Sounds like a great way to get 2 birds with one stone. I've heard of total conversion nvim setups but I don't want to do something like that and get lost. This seems like a fantastic place to get started and I'm stoked this was suggested to me. I have seen your videos before but haven't subscribed. I'm changing that now 😅 Now to get this done, set up copilot and I'm practically where I am in vscode

[@joshgelias]

Decide to try this after feeling like AstroNvim came with a lot I didn't use or understand. This video and Kickstart is mostly easy to grok, although things like lazy, mason and treesitter are big subjects on their own. I personally struggled initially because I thought all the keymaps listed in the which-key menu were also managed by which-key. Which made no sense because the plugin's config is 5 lines and contains no commands. However, which-key isn't being used here except to load/display the menu by looking at it's config, and the description properties of your existing neovim keymaps. While initially confusing, I now love that the menu and keymaps are decoupled like that! Great Project!

[@TomGeogecko]

Well thought and thoroughly documented piece of software that is Telescope upon the great software that is Neovim. Thank you TJ for this great contribution.

[@0oNoiseo0]

This video pushed me over the edge to try to make my own Neovim configuration. Now after another month and learning more this was an great starting point!

[@colinbos5068]

Excellent video! It was also a blast being around for so much of the recording process and cool seeing the final product.

[@noahtah1511]

pretty cool, i'm a beginner dev that didn't know what he was getting into, but seeing how the neovim + kickstart works, I can finally understand why scripting and being able to customize everything is so gosh darn cool. Lua is also really cool because it's simple enough that i can kinda understand even the more complicated bits that are in the config.

[@Tobsson]

Watched some of this on stream and I gotta say, it came out really good!

[@tw1t611]

Nice to see the quality improve so much since you do it full time. :)

[@mrwobbat]

This is what we need! Keep up the great work TJ!

[@teej_dv]

Thanks!! Glad you liked it!

[@wojciechjasinski3152]

Thank You for Your video on using kickstart! I want to say THANK YOU to TJ DeVries, ALL Kickstart creators and maintainers and to ALL Neovim and Vim plugins makers! And Neovim and Vim makers! Writing and editing text can be so beautiful! R. I. P. Braam Moolenaar!

[@___rituraj___]

Thanks for Kickstarting my journey in Neovim :)

[@Lukian_Muzyka]

Thanks man, this is really what many people needed, including me. Really useful stuff❤

[@teej_dv]

So glad I can help :)

[@rkeenan85]

Thank you, TJ! I finally have the balls to try out Neovim. I installed Kickstart two weeks ago, and I struggling through it. I went from highly frustrated to slightly productive in no time. I want to build this thing into my last IDE that I ever have to use.

[@TeaEffTeu]

the intro confused me until I realized what was happening, great video

[@Nitiiii11]

Thanks man, I have started using Neovim 5 months ago and I use it as my daily driver. But I still managed to learn much in this video.

[@teej_dv]

Oh that's super awesome to hear! Was shooting for useful for people of many different neovim experiences!

[@Tragicomedy2137]

This is really cool! My own configuration was based on the older version of kickstart, but now that so many new things were added I think I'm just gonna start over again. Thank you for your hard work.

[@mambusskruj]

What a nice step-by-step video. I've already settled down my neovim config, but this video for sure inspires me to take some tidbits from it and make my config better. Thank you. P.S. It was nice to follow along with you updating kickstart on Twitch.

[@jrplops89]

I'm late to the party but thanks a lot for this. I used to be a pretty devout vim user for a long time, up until about 4 or 5 years ago I was fast and had a nice little decade-long setup I had developed with interactive debugging with vim-debug, etc, but at work everyone started using vscode and I ended up just moving over entirely since then. I've recently wanted to get my vim setup going again and now am seeing all this wild stuff that neovim has on offer and am going to start building my setup off of your kickstart. Cheers.

[@EnLaMitad]

This is so amazing. Thanks for the work you're doing on kickstart and this channel.

[@alexandrepereira6522]

Probably the fastest like I've ever given, this intro was epic!

[@Joseph-ex4sf]

Man you're hilarious. Loved that joke about brew and pacman users. Thanks for the video - it's the best explanation I've heard so far on the various aspects of Neovim configuration.

[@ErnestoConfused]

Dude you’re doing God’s work. The lack channels on KZbin pumping out this kind of content, at this quality and clarity, is troublingly Btw, go blue! 〽️

[@stackercoding2054]

After 2 months of going back and forth forcing myself to use vim motions on my main IDE, I can finally say I'm comfortable with it and even producing code faster. And now YT recommends me this video with such an awesome tool, so I think it's the perfect time to move to the terminal and finally leave my bloated / resource-waster / slow IDE behind. I simply can't believe how easy it was to setup everything with kickstart.

[@samuraijosh1595]

ok but why did he skip the installation of kickstart itself?

[@KulKulKula]

I switched from using LunarVim to kickstarter, the performance difference is enormous, kickstarter is the perfect lightweight starting point, and I finally tailored the config to my needs

[@alexrook5604]

13:00 with the slow zoom in made me laugh. I was already subscribed and had liked it but that was priceless and I had to ring the bell.

[@jameswinston5369]

Thank you! Absolute best resource out there for achieving Neovim clarity.

[@Xe054]

This is the video that will finally get me to switch to neovim. Thank you, TJ, for your work and sorry to all of my future pair programming partners.

[@dustincocking5141]

Nice update. Thanks for the work! My config needs a refresh... Ill probably start here as a base and pull in what I need. ❤ TJ

[@richardw1634]

As someone who has been daily driving a neovim distribution but always are a little fuzzy on the details and concepts, this video is actually goated.

[@emersonbarros6815]

I started my own configuration with a previous version of kickstart, now I have to admit that it's a bit messy. But this new version gave me ideas to add to my configuration and organize it better. I'm Brazilian, btw, and I live in the state next to the Brazilian creator of neovim, Tiago de Arruda, btw

[@mewhenthemewhenstheme]

I’m Brazilian btw

[@EnriqueAlejandroSanchez]

¡Gracias!

[@teej_dv]

Thank you!!

[@toolbelt]

Appreciate you setting us up for success. This is fantastic.

[@ant1fact]

Dude I've been using nvim for a while but there have always been some gaps in my understanding of the basics. This finally clears it up

[@hovhadovah]

Kickstart is SO well documented! Love it.

[@ashleyjbartlett]

love the simple setup, i've forked it and am using it. Now watched your vid again and realised i installed a second surround plugin, as i missed you talking about mini the first time (or, you know, so much content all at onc🎉)... now i just need to invest time using neovim. I'm finding it hard to think about the VIM way of doing things from VSCode, as well as having to understand what the LSP options are, and i don't have a huge amount of time to explore, and it's slow. maybe this time i'll be able to switch, but it's my 3rd or 4th attempt already. I want to like it.

[@NA-zs2sw]

Great video! I've watched half a dozen 'get started with neovim' type videos in the last few years (still haven't made neovim my main editor...) and I still found myself learning something from this! Kickstart looks like a great way to jump in with something usable, I think I will give it a try.

[@fixpoint]

Fantastic video. It’s motivated me to try to build my own config instead of using LazyVim. Lately, I feel my setup has become a bit sluggish, so curious to see what happens if I use kickstart as a starting point. Thanks again for the amazing content. Very inspirational and your delivery is captivating.

[@marcoradocchia3461]

13:08: Filled the checklist Thanks for you amazing work :D

[@sayo9394]

Thanks heaps for this video, really appreciated! to be honest, i found it a bit overwhelming at first, and only after i saw other videos setting up neovim from scratch did i understand what's going on. I really like how other videos placed plugins in their own files under a plugin directory, thus reducing the size of the init.lua file and easier to follow.

[@guilhermealecrim1135]

Started using NeoVim after this wonderful video. Struggling with moving around files in a project, but I'll get the hang of it

[@francoisnature2591]

Awesome video. Glad I found it, as I struggled a lots initially to start my journey with neovim. Things are definitly more clear and it works ! Just had the issue with neovim 10.0. failed to install mason-registry with error Vimscript function must not be called in a lua loop callback. After remove/reinstall neovim 0.9.5 it worked ok with the same kickstart

[@nyanray]

I'm so fucking glad I found you through prime. holy crap. love the pacing and way you work through the material you're sharing!

[@hamiltonianthoughts]

This was the kick in the butt i needed to get a deeper understanding of how to effectively use lua for my neovim config. As an arch linux user I also quite enjoyed your pacman statement. 😂

[@Salloom99]

Your kickstarter is definitely the best place to start with. What a great time to switch to neovim.

[@Chained_Demon]

Thank you soooooo much for make it easier to Windows users, It's so nice to be able to work with this config natively in my machine.❤

[@amitozazad1584]

Learning Lua for past two days. Finished watching this video. Time to switch to NeoVim ♥! Great content.

[@deelinuno9785]

🎉Thanks for explaining those common-seen things, very concise. I didn’t understand most of them before.

[@joshsantos9536]

Wow - just as I was looking to lean more on standards, here it is! Thank you 🎉