Teaching Neovim From Scratch To A Noob

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[@fkeyzuwu]

"Teaching Neovim from scratch to a noob" *30 seconds in* "yeah ive been using vim for 10 years" bruh

[@no_name4796]

Techinically a neovim noob

[@bursoft8165]

@@no_name4796

[@mvargasmoran]

The man was pretty much a Neovim noob. Anthony was using vim and really narrow subset of commands, it shows.

[@anj000]

Bruuuuh, exactly my reaction. If someone using vim for 10 years is a "noob", who am I if I NEVER used vim?

[@Matois1]

The dude didn't know how to split with v, how to open help, how to differentiate registers... That's a noob. It doesn't matter how much he used the tool if he's not profficient

[@potatopassingby1148]

title: "To A Noob" first 30 seconds in: "so I've been using vim for 10 years..."

[@RamPageMMA]

vim and neovim are kind of different tho. Neovim modernizes Vim by enhancing its features and improving plugin support.

[@GIGADEV690]

@@RamPageMMA Bro its not totally different thing no way 10 years is noob.

[@xtunasil0]

​​@@GIGADEV690but if you watch the video, you can see he really doesn't know some basic command and I was wondering why he was using VIM for 10 years.

[@AntonioDoesMetal]

Going to keep commenting on these videos that are more teaching/tutorial based saying that I love this style of content

[@Red-Orm]

I absolutely agree

[@KoopstaKlicca]

100 hundred percent (also commenting for the algorithm)

[@RajSingh-gz6mr]

I live for this content 🥲🤩! I will also kickstart!

[@abdulalimmahir]

The best thing about this video was that guy's reactions and mistypes, absolutely relatable.

[@John81oConnory]

100%

[@daphenomenalz4100]

I love how everyone was SCREAMING FOR TMUX when he said he wanted terminal on the bottom 😂

[@qwerasdfhjkio]

timestamp?

[@sutirk]

​@@qwerasdfhjkio Literally 2:00 minutesin

[@eyesight2073]

2:31

[@austin7591]

This just shows you how good of a mentor Prime is, this dude was all over the place and Prime just keeps his cool and walks him through with clarity. It's a good example for me as I'm coming up on 3 years of experience and mentoring fresh engineers

[@arafays]

I know prime hates pair programming but this needs to be a series.... like go programmer learns vim from prime typescript programmer learns vim nextjs developer learns vim etc

[@chizidotdev]

nextjs developer..? Oh dear God😂

[@stickyblicky11]

@@chizidotdev I'm a Tailwindcss dev

[@seannewell397]

Yes. Pair programming is _the_ biggest accelerant to a person's career early on imo. Provides an invaluable experience.

[@arafays]

@@chizidotdev it would be really funny prime setting up keymaps for them.

[@seand7603]

Css dev? Heh k

[@bannji6434]

thank you for uploading the vod, great stuff!

[@zheil9152]

Thank you for saving this segment of your stream. Couldn’t follow along at work when it happened live

[@kristinapianykh9445]

primeagen got me into nvim and now I can't stop tweaking all the little things that make me really enjoy my editing experience. And still there's always so much more to learn. Loving it!

[@aseeralfaisalsaad]

Many people don't know the fact that windows terminal has tmux like features. u can split panes vertically, horizontally and can also resize em and close. Check the commands on the command pallette of WT. alt+shift+ is vertical split and alt+shift+ - is horizontal split. Hold alt and arrow keys to change panes. Ctrl+shift+w to close

[@fourcoding3198]

That's true and you can also change the keybindings. However, as far as I know (as a tmux-beginner), tmux has many more features than just splitting, e.g. multiple sessions with the possibility of detaching, renaming of windows, better navigation between panes/windows, tmux-internal copy buffer. In addition to all that you can further extend tmux with plugins and themes.

[@patrickkdev]

I believe mac os terminal can also split panes

[@lonederanger3581]

Love the tutorial type things. Thanks Mr. Vimeagen

[@nonetype66]

I just started my journey into neovim with kickstarter this week. And this video just made it so much more clear. I WOULD PAY YOU TO TUTOR ME

[@MEMETV1]

THIS IS WHY I LOVE SUPPORTING YOU PRIME! Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!

[@blueturtle5]

Thank you prime! Loving these educational videos.

[@everyDev-everyDay]

I recognized the Go Father voice and accent from far away liked the vid awesome work Primeagen, Thank you!!!

[@zacharyjensen7661]

I did not know that semicolon and comma repeated the find character forward and backward. You really learn something new every time you watch someone else using Vim/Neovim.

[@specdesa]

Thanks for mentioning Trouble. Made my experience better!

[@specdesa]

Thanks for mentioning trouble by Folke. Just made my experience better!

[@user-gu9mf9rm3p]

what an amazing and helpful video , Thank you for sharing this video with us

[@edharmsen4437]

Gold! I like you speaking in a more human tempo than on The Primeagen channel. (I'm old) Thanks!

[@srijanraghavula]

Please do more of this stuff. Really helpful.

[@CalvinB_]

I love picking up all the little tricks your dropng (ctl+^, [d ]d ) thanks prime!

[@maxcharacterlimitreache-]

by the title, finally something i might be able to understand from prime

[@FilipeAparecidofra]

Best cross-over in a best topic!

[@kot_ciat]

I was hoping you/Flip put that stream part on youtube, this is a great resource

[@ghostpants8172]

ctrl+p or p was what I was looking all along... and the rest of the telescope stuff really. It's a must when you're from vscode land.

[@XDarkGreyX]

I am gonna watch this entire thing. Now it resonates even more withme because I finally got myself vimmotions for VSC after over a year. Not quite ready to take the Vim pill, though I have never really been a VSC worshipper nor "good" mouse user imo. I do like using my keyboard.

[@DiegoVillacis10]

50:40 "it's just another buffer, it's okay" 😭😭

[@theodorealenas3171]

Btw that's legit a thing for me. If my files etc are displayed in just another buffer I do feel more okay

[@opposite342]

This vid really get me to reconfigured my stuffs more to my preferences. One thing I won't change for now is from Packer to Lazy cuz I'm kinda lazy (no pun intended) Also omg ctrl + ^ is very eye-opening.

[@saleenapatel]

man this is gonna be awesome

[@karanraval5046]

Literally prime content!

[@danjto]

As a noob myself, I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I know you're not a fan of pair programming but I'd love to see more videos like this. You and Anthony could do a "vim noob to power user" series lol

[@yakomisar]

Thanks. It was an awesome nvim journey.

[@garrettsmith315]

Two of my favorite youtubers coming together for my favorite IDE.

[@peekknuf]

now that's an absolute banger

[@marinftw]

I love the power of Vim/NVim and the flexibility of it. I used it for years and after seeing your videos I kitted out a fairly capable nvim setup. However, the debugger configuration and UX is rough. Would love to see you configure that and interact with it. Videos out there about that only set it up and run it but don’t really debug anything which doesn’t highlight the problem with the flow.

[@inevespace]

Thank you, it was very helpful. Now I can easily move my vimrc to lua

[@dayrine9835]

Amazing content

[@truth_4lif399]

Love it! Thanks good Vid

[@marcrobison2125]

This is awesome

[@decky1990]

Learning ‘,’ during ‘f/F’was handy as anything

[@tekipeps]

That's no noob bruh

[@pietraderdetective8953]

WTF?? Why did I get goosebumps when Anthony says Elixir a couple of times in the 46th minutes!! the hairs on my arms are tingling LOL!

[@iWigY]

Gracias senior, this helps a lot..

[@moistness482]

This is the crossover episode I didn't want, but needed

[@ayushtripathi4514]

this is awesome, really.

[@JoseGarcia-qq6sk]

Pure gold this video

[@lazyh0rse]

one of the things surprised me is that neovim is actually fully cross platform with windows. So if he uses windows, he can use Nvy as a neovim gui renderer with neovim. And use neovim as if he were in a unix system. Except of course the command line will be powershell. But everything so far works great in my case. Lsp, telescope, completions, etc. Moreover, the configurations are identical if you use a linux system, so it's completely portable too. I use Linux on my work pc, but sometimes I develop a little bit on my personal pc, which have windows installed on it. So in my case this saves me a huge deal of going through wsl and stuff.

[@adaniel2929]

You can run nvim in git bash if necessary too, or WSL even

[@Richetechguy]

I've used both powershell/wsl setup wsl feels more performant, in combo with tmux/zellij and many other cli apps that just work on linux

[@DMSBrian24]

just get a better terminal and run WSL, problem solved

[@lil10dot]

you can do line spacing in the windows terminal in settings -> default profile (or any profile) -> appearance

[@robertj.3682]

What a legend

[@Patrickdaawsome]

hell yeah Anthony GG

[@Faskosu]

It's so funny that the green on the screen is getting captured and filtered at the start lmao

[@alvaroarenasu2]

This video is gold. I am giving neovim once more a try for work. The only thing I am missing is the "change signature" in Golang and I would be set. Any tips? Maybe a workflow how to do that refactor using quicklist?

[@truceheat1671]

Are we calling GG noob now 😂

[@abdellahcodes]

16:43 Seeing trailing white space is pretty useful

[@renkinjutsu01]

5:38 I think he was actually pasting INTO the terminal instead of pasting from the vim "+ register. That might be why he got that popup. Unless yank32 has the permission dialog by default.

[@elkcityhazard]

I love anthonygg showing up on the vimeagan.

[@benarcher372]

This might be interesting!

[@pabloqp7929]

Nice collab

[@dylancam812]

Updated primeagen video on neovim and updated theo video on t3 stack drop on the same day. I'm in tutorial heaven rn

[@MsDuketown]

What did you do to you old setup, with VIM and before kernel 6? Did you forget the disclaimer about profiles and sessions? Amateur mistake. And which widget kit do you guys use? KDE or Gnome? And good-old X server or MIR/Wayland?

[@pratikbin]

Love it

[@Jonathan-di1pb]

The thing people tend to mis I feel is that Neovim is a process. You don't go to the intimidating endgame right away. You use a base config until you notice small annoyences, try to fix em and get increasingly good at it and make increasingly bigger changes until you have your dream editor. You'll probably be slower than vscode in the beginning, but its just an investment.

[@RifatNabi]

Hey Prime, you obviously don't need which-key. But based on this session, it's pretty apparent that the other person would benefit from it.

[@user-cr3dn9vt6h]

Ah, and here i am clicking at the video and realizing that "noob" is called someone who used Vim for 10 years. Clickbait title

[@miletadulovic577]

Hey Prime, quick question. Any tips on what to use instead of tsserver?

[@matez8355]

Exflix prime is cooking

[@markgandolfo6477]

as soon as he turned his line numbers off, I was like damn prime's going to have a hard time giving instructions.. then the rest of the video "no go one line lower, no you've gone to far, one up, wait no, go to the one that says x"...

[@robertj1679]

Holy Shit dap is amazing

[@Necessarius]

Finally! After 10 years of using vim i can learn how to use it

[@m4rt_]

I have bound Ctrl+W to save/write because sometimes I feel like that typing out :w manually is too slow/anoying I also have bound Ctrl+Q to quit for the same reason. So I have bound splitting to Ctrl+C + S (horizontal) and Ctrl+C + V (vertical)

[@lpanebr]

Cellular automation is insane 😂😂😂

[@theodorealenas3171]

To me, pair programming is fun as long as the brains are

[@wh7988]

9:39 literally changed my leader away from comma after that rant

[@yasengo]

I'm nvim noob is there any solution..my problem is that i while i was working with react-router-dom, why its not suggesting like useNavigate when i already had installed router package but work fine with react query..

[@eyzake]

hmmm i had been using vim for 3 days and yep relatable

[@lucasteo5015]

New lesson learnt C-^

[@s8x.]

made a new nvim config with minimal plugins (50). fast and clean

[@victordvickie]

Classic prime telling git gud 38:57

[@vaisakhkm783]

Who is anthony???

[@MartialBoniou]

I've played Doom using hjkl instead of wasd... on a dvorak keyboard: I couldn't use my mouse. It was pure hell but in my heart, I won something. Anyone should study the space-cadet keyboard: the arrow keys were there!

[@adaniel2929]

As someone who is learning nvim on Windows myself I've found its best to make your environment as linux like as possible. I'm in between using chocolatey as a native package manager for windows while i code or just using WSL (wsl uses a LOT of ram due to virtualization but gives me a proper linux terminal). Also why is it so easy to fall for vim? I've been on windows all my life, I haven't touched DOS since the 90s and my terminal usage is limited yet the simplistic nature of doing all my work on a big blank canvas and zero distractions makes me happy.

[@ismbks]

have you tried scoop? when i had to use windows it was my "package manager" of choice it's not perfect by any means but i found it working better than choco for unix-y programs

[@adaniel2929]

@@ismbks i haven't tried it no but thank you, ill look at it

[@connorsweeney6210]

@@adaniel2929 i use winget, completely native to windows and theres nothing ive found that it doesnt have a package for so far, its very nice

[@demolazer]

And once you use a lot you're trapped. The key bindings become such fine muscle memory that using any other editor quickly leads to confusion

[@adaniel2929]

@@demolazer I'm learning them slowly but hjkl and plenty of others are already filling my head. Not sure about trapped, however, since even if I'm in vs code i feel like I'm improving my ability to focus on typing. Actually getting flashbacks to when I was a kid in the 90s, playing around on my mom's word processor.

[@ali2kan]

Arrow keys are mostly used for porn and gaming.

[@LemonZorzCinema]

How does he move the viewport AND move the cursor along with the screen? Every time I look this up people say you need to set a keybind to do both move line and move viewport at the same time but he’s doing it on a “fresh” install

[@LemonZorzCinema]

In case anyone else see this and wants this too i figured it out: you set "vim.opt.scrolloff = 1" and this will keep that many lines above and below the cursor. you can set it to something really high and always have the cursor centered on the screen.

[@arthurwiebusch9292]

nice

[@johnforeverrules]

i thought something was wrong with my configuration when my gopls was running very slow.

[@sebby5336]

12:31 I hate mouses too, relatable.

[@devcoffee]

Built in trackball into the keyboard is the solve.

[@itsmenewbie03]

ironic but I saw a video from AnthonyGG talking why he switched from neovim to vscode?

[@cherry-55]

that voice sounds familiar :D

[@dhadveyash2268]

❤

[@aseeralfaisalsaad]

For line spacing :set tabstop=2 Like this

[@oscarhagman8247]

>Noob >Used vim for 10 years

[@attentioncestpaslegal7847]

Please go up to setting up NeoVim up to professional Python coding !

[@5kr0dy16]

I don’t know why but this guy really bugged me lol “you know what I mean?”😅

[@saadfarhan]

finally

[@tahahuraibb5833]

how can I connect to a ssh with nvim like vscode?

[@shamsuddinjunaid56]

No way you called Anthony a noob!!

[@Fiurgeist]

I finally installed neovim and I can just say decades of gaming have ruined me (at least when it comes to the intended "arrow" keys) whenever I wanna go up my body just automatically moves the middle finger 1 key up, making me press instead of same with sidewards movements being ingrained to be done with pointer and ring finger, making me press instead of 🤣

[@renkinjutsu01]

1:00:01 He's missing a 3rd argument for `desc`, that's why his gd wasn't working

[@BrazenNL]

5:50 Prime interrupting him all the time, but I'm sure he wanted to complain about `nopaste`, although I can't understand why, as he said he's been using Vim for _many_ years.