Today's stupid question: are vim and neovim not the same thing? I just type vi (ancient habit) and use whatever it is that executes. (I can go search but interacting here is more fun lol)

[–] Dhs92@programming.dev 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I believe neovim is just a fork of vim that's still updated and has support for more modern features.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

FWIW I think vim is also still updated, there was a release this year I believe

[–] emptiestplace@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

and then Bram died :(

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

oh.... oh shit. That had somehow slipped my mind

[–] emptiestplace@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah, it doesn't make a lot of sense. People talk about "when Linus dies", and obviously that will be devastating, but in my mind Bram just was. I wish I'd made a point of meeting him, or at least sending him an email to say thanks. Not for vim specifically, though I will probably use it until my fingers quit working. As with countess others, Bram inspired me to learn about ICCF Holland, and from there I had the privilege of supporting a child in Uganda through school. That's what I'd want to thank him for. And vim.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Neovim is better in many ways, and because it has lua support, it's so much easier to write plugins for it. So there are thousands of plugins right now, and entire neovim distributions that are configured to work like an IDE, like Lazyvim for example.

https://www.lazyvim.org/

I'm a huge fan and I have written plugins myself since it's easy and rewarding.

But on the server, I don't bother installing neovim. Ordinary vim is fine for simple editing tasks. But if you want a customized experience to replace VS Code on your computer, you want neovim and not vim.

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Neovim is a fork of Vim. It uses Lua for configuration instead of the original Vim's VimScript, but still has a lot of interoperability with original Vim plugins and configuration options.