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agitri

can you elaborate more about your setup, i have heard of neovim, but havent got around to actually switch to it. what did you change about it? (or didnt ;) )

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Hayden Rouille

Neovim is great. You can use Lua to write plugins which is far more friendly, and in general the community is better. From a development perspective you won't notice much if any differences, but the idea behind neovim is to make it far more open source and provide features that the community want, not just the core maintainer of vim. I'd recommend making the move even if you don't have any immediate necessities for it, to at least support the movement.

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Vishnu Dileesh

Got any tutorials/articles suggestions to get started with building vim extensions?
I will be taking open source contribution seriously from 2021

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Hayden Rouille

I'd recommend checking out this dudes twitch and youtube channel twitch.tv/teej_dv - he's a maintainer of neovim and does some good lua plugin development. Other than that for me I haven't spent ages learning, other than googling and looking at other plugin repositories is potentially the best bet

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Vishnu Dileesh

Thanks, yep looking at the source code of few plugins I use is where am planning to get started

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Vishnu Dileesh

Have not done much customization, just installed a few plugins and made some tweaks here and there.

youtube.com/watch?v=gnupOrSEikQ

youtube.com/watch?v=65Wq4fjREUU

Both those videos were a great inspiration in the tweaking