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title: "NixVim"
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date: "2024-01-15T02:53:23+01:00"
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author: "$HUMANOID"
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tags: ["nix", "linux", "vim"]
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description: "Some thoughts on Vim, NeoVim and NixVim"
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draft: true
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# Vim and Editors in General
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So I've been using Vim for nearly as long as I've been using Linux. I still
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vaguely remember awkwardly working `vimtutor` for the first time. Before I
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touched Vim, I didn't really have any strong preference for an editor on Linux.
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I'd just come from Windows where I'd used Notepad++ to edit small text files and
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Visual Studio and JetBrains Rider for my college work at the time -- mainly C#
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in conjunction with Unity. Sure, these editors got the job done, but they
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weren't... Elegant. Visual Studio and Rider are monstrous pieces of software
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with several kitchen sinks. And I'm sure Notepad++ has some really cool features
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that I've never touched, but then it didn't really feel inviting to me and thus
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I never dug deeper. When moving to Linux, I mainly used Gedit to edit the odd
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ini file. This got rather tedious when needing root privileges to edit, say an
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`sshd_config` file. Sure, you can open Gedit using `sudo`, but that makes the
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terminal window from which you start it useless as long as Gedit is running. On
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top of that, it being a GTK application means that it spews a lot of output to
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`STDOUT`. At this point -- not wanting to dig into Vim yet -- I found out Nano
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is a thing. I never liked it. It's always felt something like a clunky
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on-graphical Windows Notepad of Linux.
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So after a little while I decided to bite the bullet and start up `vimtutor`.
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As mentioned before, it was awkward at first. But I could also see the power
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that the anatomy of Vim allows the user to wield and decided to commit at least
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the basics to muscle memory.
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# Plugins and NeoVim
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From here it would only be a matter of time.
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