Why I Switched From VSCode To NeoVim - My Setup

[@anthonygg_]

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[@blazinglyfaster9935]

Vim has that premium responsiveness that makes you want to write more instead of copy/paste

[@nodidog]

When you use gd to go to a definition, you can jump back using the jump list, with ctrl o (and forward again with ctrl i). Think o for 'out', i for 'in'. Also, using . to repeat the previous command is an underrated speed bonus. You probably know these, but thought I'd share 👍

[@underflowexception]

i started using ctrl+^

[@dandogamer]

Yeah the "." Tip comes in handy when indenting code

[@nodidog]

@@dandogamer you can also use ctrl-t and ctrl-d to indent and outdent while in insert mode. It's like tabbing, but you don't have to be at the start of a line - handy

[@TehKarmalizer]

There are so many useful commands. It fees overwhelming knowing there are so many that I will struggle to remember.

[@nodidog]

@@TehKarmalizer just try and learn one or two each week. You'll remember all of the easy ones by default, and the more obscure ones you'll remember over time 👍

[@luciusstark]

I CAME FROM THE FUTURE. Months after: "why I switched from NeoVim to VSCode - My Setup"

[@ipigtaiwan]

Damn

[@jtms1200]

When I was just starting out in my career, my mentor made switching to Vim a precondition of taking me on as a mentee. Best tech choice ever! 20 years later and im still a devout Vim user (now NeoVim because its just a much better implementation). Its the most important tool in my toolbelt!

[@anthonygg_]

🤝

[@chrishipple4419]

Once you're used to the buttery smooth performance of vim, going back to the other IDEs is so painful, even if all of their built in features are really nice. The other thing is that when something doesn't work 100% out of the box with VSCode, you're usually stuck and in a lot of pain, but you can usually fix your problems with vim

[@garbagechannel6514]

Most people using neovim tend to have strong feelings about it like this, but im reluctant to get invested because it looks like you're gaining a minor productivity boost and giving up a lot of features and time for it. I get the vibe that its similar to arch users, they spend all this time customizing their OS and its the greatest thing ever and productivity goes through the roof, but the amount of time requires to learn it vs the actual benefits are hard to measure and opinions are more biased because of the learning curve. I don't see enough of the benefits being presented by anyone using it, and watching them use it, it never looks like the vast improvement to make it worth the learning curve and configuration.

[@atanugayen3030]

I would say the biggest bang for buck you would get is to just learn vim motions (assuming you know touch-typing, which is a must for programmers, of course). It is absolutely, positively worth it. I learnt it from "vim-tutor". Then used the neovim plugin on vscode. Just focus on the most important commands at first and gradually learn more and more over time. Then gradually, you can decide if going full neovim is worth it.

[@hassananwar2431]

I've been waiting for this for a very long time

[@badtrapify]

Nice, i was hoping for a video like that! Looking to customize my nvim a bit more go specific and it looked pretty nice in your streams. Keep up the good work! Doei!

[@edzynda]

I love using fuzzy find but if you're working on a repo you're not completely familiar with how do you even know what to type? This is why I still have a sidebar plugin :)

[@anthonygg_]

Good point. Sidebar is indeed a better approach in that case.

[@houstonbova3136]

Thanks for making me aware of this plug-in!

[@TehKarmalizer]

@@adamjasinski1463 sometimes you don’t know what you are looking for or just want to peruse, especially if you’re new to a large codebase. But generally it shouldn’t be needed.

[@BabaykaMoscow]

Thanks for sharing your experience. Could you share how would you debug with neovim with setting up breakpoints and all this debug stuff?

[@anricoj1]

"Don't be like your colleagues. Be a Chad. Use vim fuzzy find" 🤣

[@dutchdelite77]

DIdn't get the blazing speed I'd expected from Nvim on my M1 MacBook pro.. It's basically as fast as VSCode unfortunately. On my Debian Linux laptop Neovim is just 🚀

[@たぬきという名のパンダ]

what's this font?

[@dmitriylevy7865]

"Dont be like all your colleagues, be a chad, use Vim" 6:22 The reason why I'm switching from vscode.

[@justanaveragebalkan]

Yeah, don't be like your colleagues, memorize all 3000 files in the project and search for them by memory instead of the file list. Dominance on another level.

[@dandogamer]

Oh damn it finally happened!

[@nixrohan]

We only get 1 life, why not aesthetics? I use neovim as well but i have spend lots of time on ricing my arch linux setup which i am very much happy with

[@robinzon100]

hey hey Anthony 👋 what's the font that you're using?

[@anthonygg_]

Consolas

[@robinzon100]

@@anthonygg_ thank you Anthony 🌟

[@Deotheterrible]

What is the theme you are using?

[@q21r55]

You're from belgium?! that's sick

[@ForeverZer0]

Taking the time to get past the initial growing pains is so worth it. I spent nearly two decades thinking vim was unintuitive garbage and that people were crazy for using it, and I regret that I never took the time to learn why people chose to use it sooner. Even if you don't like vim, learning vim motions, even in vscode, is a worthwhile endeavor that increases productivity.

[@iamworstgamer]

I am also looking to move from vscode to emacs or neovim for golang

[@NeoShameMan]

Does it have folding?

[@anthonygg_]

Ofc

[@NehezTheWrackful]

I am too deep in Jetbrains ecoosystem and too used to it after over a decade :), but Its fun to see other ppl using vim and be proficient in it :)

[@wuilliam321]

Niiiice! I'm a neovim user too :)

[@wuilliam321]

You should turn treesitter on, with golang grammar, it's amazingly beautiful

[@definitelynotrohan]

hey anthony! I love your videos. I'm in college and I want to become a backend web dev. I have been learning golang lately from your videos + docs (and making some small projects of my own also) how much frontend knowledge do I need? Should I learn something like React or vanilla would do just fine?

[@anthonygg_]

Some react will get you very far

[@definitelynotrohan]

@@anthonygg_ thankyou

[@notoriouslycuriouswombat]

Looks back to vscode already?

[@lokthar6314]

how do you handle refactoring in neovim, e.g. renaming a method ? Is there a way to rename a method and reflect the change all over the code base, in all places that use the method?

[@anthonygg_]

I had a “macro” for that. However, I like to use vscode more for this kind of stuff

[@nikfp]

Renaming a function intelligently is done by the language server, which Neovim will connect to. So you can rename, go to definition, get inline hints, etc.

[@tnvmadhav2442]

Wanna know if vim has git-lens like extensions/plugins? I like the git blame feature. I absolutely love the copy line as remote file link for sharing code snippets.

[@eliasgill2453]

I don't know about the original Vim, but for Neovim Gitsings.nvim has that feature

[@hamm8934]

Yup Fugitive or Git signs. Git blame is a core feature of git, not an IDE. IDEs/plugins just interface with this.

[@dailyfunnytv358]

in this video: random guy is surprised by regular vim stuff

[@jabuci]

I went the opposite direction: vim -> VS Code.

[@anthonygg_]

I did the same multiple times and probably will do it again. Swapping back to vscode.

[@jabuci]

@@anthonygg_ I spent too much time (weeks) fine-tuning (neo)vim, hunting and setting up plugins, etc. VS Code is much simpler and my config file is short. I still use vim for certain tasks, e.g. recording and playing a macro to automate some task. But my go-to editor is VS Code today.

[@sunnybadgr5073]

​​​@@jabuci I just switched from vs code to helix, I always avoided vim because it requires so many extensions and configurations to be productive. With helix editor I was productive after just 1 day of learning it, it comes with everything I need out of the box, including LSP, fuzzy file picker, code completion, tree-sitter based syntax highlighting, debugger support. I didn't even need to mess with the config. I highly recommend helix, it's the most intuitive modal editor I ever tried :)

[@Cruzylife]

nice!

[@JohnDoe-ji1zv]

Thank you for the video! That looks really interesting. Do you mind making another video on showing your personal setup and it’s configuration ?

[@cbbcbb6803]

Can Vim be configured to default to start-up into input mode?

[@CripplingDuality]

Add :startinsert to the bottom of your vimrc, but you'll eventually remove it

[@jameslapointe3044]

I was just looking for this video ... I'd been watching your videos took a break and was like when did he switch? I wasn't surprised - as you had vim bindings in vscode. I use both - but trying to slowly ditch VSCode.

[@megasuperlexa2]

but this vid was obviously April's fool joke

[@bartek...]

Programming is not for YOU, its that YOU Are for programming!

[@sabinadhikari2643]

Tell me the name of colorscheme

[@anthonygg_]

Gruvbox

[@emirmasinovic]

Anthony "I use this all of the time" GG

[@8koi245]

I'm just not that convinced because of the problems with copy/pasting however will try to find a way to make it work

[@Lockhart_Owo]

As a beginner, I use lunarvim for several months. I am a embedded software developer. And I love lunarvim more than vscode.

[@yzhang2008]

I used vi, emacs (very proficient, but I forgot all those shortcuts after 3 months of not using it), vi again, comodo ide, visual studio, vi again, and finally lunarvim. It's a highly efficient editor for programmers, because, you don't have to move your hands out of keyboard and you can do things easier and quicker than using mouse.

[@MihoKozloffsky]

Look s like you've never heard about vim extension for vscode.

[@anthonygg_]

Basically 90 % of my videos here are in vscode with VIM mode 🙏

[@krusator]

Well, you are talking about you have no setup but actually you do have a setup. You are using a lsp, your are using treesitter, telescope and probably a package manager. And you have custom key bindings. Why didn't you talked about that? Your plugins and keybinding. Personally I find this stuff very interesting.

[@timdithmer9184]

Welcome to the dark side!

[@r2com641]

What is good for me and makes me productive? - Sublime

[@anthonygg_]

Works perfect!

[@garciajero]

credits to TJ and Telescope no? since it's all that you showing , not much vim .

[@desvendandoornasaude4127]

I use the two

[@sergiucimpoi8497]

it is like comparing a 199x game with one of the latest, ray trace based one…only you care about the load time :)))

[@interstellar1873]

G Config 🚀

[@anthonygg_]

🥷

[@ronaldweasly561]

Explain in O(1) why you choose vim among others -Speed

[@peanutcelery]

I love vim/neovim but what holds me back is the configuration. There must be an easier way to configure.

[@AnthonyR007]

They support lua configuration, and even Python now with pynvim

[@Shri]

Lunarvim is great! Just go with it and you won't regret it.

[@peanutcelery]

@@Shri Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it and it seemed a little too much config for my taste. I did went for something similar, LazyVim.

[@vikingthedude]

kickstart-nvim is a good choice

[@s8x.]

vim keeps your fingers moving

[@markpi2350]

handsome guy!

[@illegalsmirf]

Are you the kind of guy who 'switches' a lot?

[@andreigatej6704]

What about debugging? I use VS Code mostly for its debugging features. Also, totally agree with the 'motivation' thing!

[@anthonygg_]

I prefer vscode more for debugging. But again, personal pref.

[@phuc-party]

did anyone here set up graphql Lsp successfully?

[@RayZde]

No way is neo vim faster especially if you have muli projects doing front end web, windows, backend and database, mobile dev on android and ios dev.

[@MihoKozloffsky]

And zen mode

[@megasuperlexa2]

no debugger? ahaha 😂

[@anthonygg_]

Never heard of 🧐

[@TehKarmalizer]

Wdym? Every language can print to console.

[@helloworld7796]

I wished course is 100$ :)

[@SelectedPeppa]

Thank you, but no thank you

[@lel7531]

Jumping on the vim bandwagon to sell go courses yikes

[@iiNoorbd]

This man tricking yall

[@ibrahimgumus2814]

ninja/ bruce lee of vim 🥷👏🏻🫵🏻

[@fortran57]

Neovim is slow because you have to spend half of time to configure instead of writing code

[@blessdarah1256]

won a nobble price for simplicity