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Taking Neovim to the Moon

Elves Sousa on August 14, 2022

I've been using Neovim as my main code editor for a while now, and so far, I haven't changed my mind. I wrote some articles about this editor, and ...
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George Guimarães •

Excellent writing, Elves. I'm yet to make the move to init.lua. But when I read such good articles such as this, I'm one inch more inclined to take the plunge. I just wish some of the configs, like code formatting, had less moving parts. Keep up the good work.

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Elves Sousa •

Thanks a lot!

Same here... I wish less moving parts were needed, too. But the effort is worth it once you experience the speed boost given by Lua and Lua-based plugins.

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Shoubhit Dash •

Amazing blog post, great config!

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Elves Sousa •

Thanks a lot!

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Sérgio Araújo •

Great article Elves! I would like to see "mason" instead of lsp-installer, from the same developer I think. I will keep an eye on your articles!

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Elves Sousa •

Valeu, Sérgio!

Never heard of it before. I'll try it later!

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Caven •

Great!

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Richard Guay •

Have you tried the LunarVim configuration? It’s really nice also and completely in Lua.

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Ben Sinclair •

I thought that's what this post would be about, given the word "moon" in the title.

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Elves Sousa •

Hahah... That's interesting... "Lua" is the word for "Moon" in Portuguese, the native language of the Lua creators.

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Richard Guay •

I actually thought the same until I read it and found out what Lua means.

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Elves Sousa •

Not yet. It is the one Chris@Machine made, right?

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Richard Guay •

Yes. His twitter is @chrisatmachine, so I assume it’s the same person. It’s been great for me.

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Andev70 •

Why auto import and other auto suggestions doesn't work inside . svelte files

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Elves Sousa •

Have you tried installing svelte-language-server with Mason/LSP-Installer?

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Sérgio Araújo •

Unfortunelly not