If I knew beforehand, what a nest of I would journey into when exploring #Neovim - I would have done it years ago

I might be switching from #neovim to #vim. Not that big of a switch but I think vim might be simpiler.

It’s taken a long time(more years than I care to admit) but I can finally do a global search and replace in Vim/Nvim properly without having to look things up!

#vim #nvim #neovim things

Python developers might appreciate being able to look up stdlib documentation right inside of Vim: https://github.com/girishji/pythondoc.vim

In the past couple of days I’ve finally had some time to work again on nvim-http.

It’s a #Neovim #Python plugin compatible with comparable HTTP client plugins in VsCode and IntelliJ - or a little #Postman that runs in your favourite editor.

While I was away I didn’t notice that the repo in the meantime has ammassed almost 100 stars and it had a dozen of outstanding issues - sorry!

The latest release includes many improvements and features:

• Fully migrated to the Neovim remote plugins API, now that Neovim has introduced breaking changes that make it incompatible with the old vim.async_run API.

• Better handling of HTTP requests that don’t end with newlines or comment headers.

• Added support for environent variables specified in .env files, either in the same directory as the .http file or in the current working directory of the editor. The plugin now also supports environment variables specified both in *.env.json files (VsCode compatibility) and .env files.

• Added support for inline shell commands, either in the environment variable or in the HTTP request, delimited by $(...).

• Added -h and -t options to the :Http command to display the output in a horizontal split or in a new tab (the default is a vertical split).

• Added --no-redirects option to :Http to avoid following redirects.

• Added -T/--timeout option.

https://github.com/blacklight/nvim-http

Wait, they added some new options to the right click menu too in neovim 0.11?

If you'd like to prank a fellow Vim user, send them a text file with `vim: revins` at the bottom and ask them to type some text in it... https://vimhelp.org/options.txt.html#%27revins%27

Unless they've turned off their `modeline` setting, something like this should happen:

After a recent update neovim doesn't seem to correctly active my colorscheme anymore. It applies it seemingly as :colorscheme shows me the correct colorscheme but only a second :colorscheme <name> does actually make it take affect. This is royally annoying. Has anyone experienced similar issues?

deprecated

eye candy for #neovim users: cursor smear lol

https://github.com/sphamba/smear-cursor.nvim

The Angular Language Server: Understanding IDE Integration Approaches, by @niklas_wortmann (@jetbrains.com):

https://blog.jetbrains.com/webstorm/2025/03/the-angular-language-server-understanding-ide-integration-approaches/

I'm reading the neovim 0.11 release notes and damn, they are cooking in neovim. Lots of good stuff

https://gpanders.com/blog/whats-new-in-neovim-0-11/

Finally neovim 0.11 arrived with some nice changes with native lsp config, native auto-completion, faster treesitter, builtin lsp-lines.nvim and new default keyset for lsps! I have been waiting for these features for really long!

https://gpanders.com/blog/whats-new-in-neovim-0-11/

#neovim 0.11 is out! - List of notable changes since 0.10: neovim.io/doc/user/new... - Summary blog post: gpanders.com/blog/whats-n... - Release binaries: github.com/neovim/neovi... Thank you all for the support! More things to come in 0.12!

News-0.11 - Neovim docsNeovim

If you use Neovim and you'd like to get better at Vim motions, you could try this collection of training tasks: https://github.com/Weyaaron/nvim-training

TIL: #vim #neovim has a built in command "TOhtml" which exports your code to a webpage you can share or print. https://neovim.io/doc/user/lua.html#vim.tohtml

If you use Neovim in a terminal, but you'd still like to have an animated Neovide-like cursor, you could try this plugin: https://github.com/sphamba/smear-cursor.nvim

doing a quick cleanup of my dotfiles and found my old 66-line neovim config written in vimscript... now it is 4236 lines of lua

Some time ago I wrote about using Helix editor on FreeBSD. I liked the „batteries included“ approach and I was curious to see whether Helix could be an actual replacement for Neovim.

I really tried and I forced myself to like Helix. And yes, Helix’s approach might be perfect for newbies who have never worked before with vim. But at some point I found myself on a customer’s server, desperately pressing ‚d‘ and wondering why it didn’t delete the character under my cursor. At this point I decided to dump Helix. The fact that some commands are slightly different, but not completely, made it hard for me to switch between systems and made me look like a complete idiot when editing a config while sharing the screen with a client.

BTW is there meanwhile an option to run lua-language-server on FreeBSD? I am using kickstart with nvim and it’s complaining that it can’t install the lsp because it’s not supported on this platform.