Please make more videos explaining neovim and astronvim in particular. really useful for someone like me who's so used to vscode and is wanting to go into nvim but doesn't really know where to start
this was hands down the best presentation of a neovim config I've ever seen. I learned a few things that apply to me even though I no longer use astronvim. This is the explanation I needed a year ago. lol. fantatsic job.
@@avinashthakur80 I went with Lazyvim. to me it seems like there's a more straightforward approach to extension and configuration, and I feel like there's less that's hidden away from the user.
@@dogyX3 I went with Lazyvim. to me it seems like there's a more straightforward approach to extension and configuration, and I feel like there's less that's hidden away from the user.
@@WillEhrendreich Interesting. I'm also using Lazyvim now, but I liked their defaults. Particularly having git in File explorer window and docked terminal.
Best AstroNvim video I've ever seen, super usefull. I have been using astro vim for about 6 months now and thanks to your video I have just discovered many more utilities.
The latest additional functionality has made AstroNvim most loved neovim configuration. I have tried and experimented with other configurations such as lazyvim, kickstart, NuChad but AstroNvim is the best .Keep updating with supplement video tutorial with latest updates.
I've been using AstroVim for almost a year and it fitted so well with me. A couple of commands and you are ready to go with almost any LSP supported language
IMO you should try and recreate them on your own, you’ll have much more flexibility. It may take some time but you’ll be able to adjust your config more easily :)
I just loved this video. I've been using AstroNvim for a few days now and here I've learned a lot that I just didn't know. Things I thought weren't even possible with Nvim. Thanks man!
This is a great video, for someone like me, starting with neovim. I feel difficult to set up a custom config as of now, so I will definitely give astrovim a look!
I recommend doing it yourself, for the same reason i'm against OhMyZsh (lots of bloat you don't need, and not as "custom" as you want). It's a fun side project, and if you use a repo, you never have to restart again. Some shell scripts here and there, and your nvim config is easily transferrable.
Astro is the best nvim config so far. Lunarvim had to install a ton of cli stuff before running and has a weird workflow, nvchad just didn't work no matter what I tried, lazyvim is fine but development is kind of slow. Astro you paste one command in the terminal and it works flawlessly and has the most features out of all of them
Thank you so much for this video! It was so helpful! Also, if anyone runs into an issue with running search on files, make sure "ripgrep" is installed.
Interesting presentation. I manage my own config and setup, and at times it feels like using one of these Nvim "distro" could lower the workload while getting nice features. My only worry is getting blocked in terms of customization (using my own plugins, custom null ls sources, set custom mappings). Are there some limitations?
Anything that makes your life "easier" has its downsides. If you setup your own config and have a repo, you will never need a "distro". Any system i'm on is a simple git clone, and thanks to some shell scripts, I get it setup to run perfectly anywhere, even on my android termux lol
It doesn't take that much to configure and neovim directly for these features. Don't go crazy with everything being perfect and you'll be fine. The problem with using preconfigured distros of neovim (assuming you don't have core neovim knowledge) is when they stop being maintained you're left with little knowledge at all. If base vim and/or neovim has a keybind to do something (like create splits and navigate between them), changing it something seemingly more convenient or familiar to remember is a bad idea. It'll leave you unequipped when you need to hop on a server or temporary docker/cloud instance to do work and you don't have the ability or time to make it just like your dev environment. The more you can do with less, the better -- generally speaking.
it's not clear on which step I should push the configuration to my github. It's an empty repository at the beginning. Should I push the content of ~/.config/ to it ?
I have a simple question regarding any distro of Neovim, I use VS code with vim extension, and I want to switch completely on Neovim or any distro of neovim like Lunarvim, Nvchad, or Astrovim. The only problem is I want to know the extensions, I like VS code because there are lots of extensions and I'm just a bit concerned about the things that I might not be able to use in Neovim, Please clear up my doubts regarding the extensions of Neovim, like what are the potential extensions that we cannot have in neovim, and in terms of extensions how better neovim is compared to VS code. VS code is good but when I came across Neovim and its distros I was blown away I wanted to switch right away the only thing that holds me back is the extensions. It'll be really helpful if you can clear those doubts on the topic of extensions regarding Neovim and its distros. Anyway thank for this video it was really helpful, explanation is fantastic, looking forward for new videos like this.
there is nothing -- literally nothing that you can do in vscode that cannot/is not/has not already been done in neovim. Emacs is even more encompassing. Friendly editors like vscode and every other one you can think of are subsets of the functional capability of neovim (which in turn is a subset of the functional capability in emacs). But you have to do some programming to enable them / find them / etc.
I have a public config (as many ppl do) that can give you some plugin ideas. Nvim can do everything vscode can and more, and waaaay faster. You will have to learn, as with learning any nee configs, or languages. Your essentials will be lsp, cmp, mason, telescope, autopair, autosurround, treesitter, lspsaga, and many more. It's a fun journey, and a never ending side project.
As a 2 year tmux+ vim user turned 3 year vs-coder (even without vim keybindings), vs code has consistently been more productive for me, and I don't think it's just preference. The main reason is, imho, vs code takes 20% of the time to learn and upkeep, does 95% of what vim and emacs can do, and does the essential things (editing, regex find and replace, terminal, remote development, language extensions & code completion, and little things like being able to copy and paste from the rest of your computer) in an intuitive, fast, often hassle-free way. Neovim and Emacs can do all of this, as long as you're willing to put in the effort to understand keybindings, configuration scripting, multithreaded LSP configuration, vim compatibility nuances, terminal font configuration, etc... that vs code is usually one extension click away from doing for you. Multiple persistent project sessions? In Vim it's a session manager plugin and multiple commands to use and bind to (or a deep dive into the vim user manual), in vs code it's just ctrl+R. Git flow? Vs code has git graph. Vim has fugitive, which is great, but again, plenty to learn and be fluent in. Replace a bunch of instances of text in your code with regex? Vim has bufdo, grep, etc... to manage this, with a little learning. Vs code has ctrl+shift+f for project-level find and replace. To sum it up, I really just think the extra brainpower that vim and emacs take upfront and for maintenance along the way makes vs code the easy winner for my productivity. I'd like to hear if people have had different experiences than I have, as far as ease of setup and learning.
I want to change the colorschem to gruvbox . If I do that then the notifications bar color changes to pink and it's difficult to see the notification text. How to resolve this issue?
thanks for making this video. IMO this tree of keybindings is more impressive then all other great features. Thanks for people at astrovim for making it...
Thank you for the video. It just got me started on Astronvim. I am a noob to this. Why is the user folder after cloning from the template as mentioned showing as a hidden folder in neotree
i have been using the neovim for like 3 months and it's really great. Glad i switched from vs code. I still have vs code on my pc.... with vim keybindings.😸
It would be complete for me if here was a project wide search and replace. I know spectre can do it and I didn't see it. Is there a "native" way to do that?
I like this! I've been using lazyvim but it's way more than what i need. I mostly do scripts for admin work.. So I went to leafvim which is nice too. But this is a really good setup. Thanks.
I’m tried to follow your steps for installing and configuring the todo-comments plugin. If I create the file `lua/plugins/user.lua` as you did, it doesn’t work for me. However, if I create `lua/plugins/todo-comments.lua` and configure it there then it works fine. Do you have a guess as to why I’m seeing that result? Is it worse in some way to do what I did?
Hi.. Could you share how to organize imports (like VS code does) for typescript/react application? I had been going through the docs and wasted a lot of time. If someone could help, it would be really great and I would get a starting point to understand nvim better..
@@cretezy thanks a lot) Also wanted to ask. when i have a function in separate file (e.g. sum.js) and i want to auto import it in main.js, cmp does not see it. auto import woks only if i have sum.ts as a buffer or opened tab. Is it fixible thing or it just how nvim works?
Mason has separate repos and plugins for debuggers. You can install them through mason, but setting them up is a bit of a weird config. I did it for python, but that's about it. Linters ipm not sure of cus I always use lsps. Google has all the answers tho!
Thanks a lot for the helpful video, can you create a video on how to configure Vimwiki and add a self template for vimwikiMakeDiaryNote, when creating a new daily note document with all rows from the template, such as title, date, todo, etc. Thanks a lot again.
Nice video. My only criticism is (although not really a criticism, just a semi-oversight that anyone could have done) is that watching this an looking at other comments, it is not super clear for someone that doesn't already understand what nvim is that astronvim is just a configuration, that anyoune could theoretically do for themselves. A second thing that is not a criticism to this video or anything, just a general comment on the topic is that such projects although generally targeted towards newcomers to vim/nvim are a generally speaking bad choice if you don't understand the editor in some depth. It's much easier to configure vim by yourself using only plugins that you want and steering only as far from the default neovim editor as you need to. That way you can debug when something goes wrong, if you want to implement some weird feature that maybe is important to you but not as popular you don't have to worry about breaking everything and even if you do you'll know how to fix it because you have a simple configuration that you built yourself in the first place. Finally you will have a lot more support if something goes wrong and you use vanilla nvim with your configs rather than something like astronvim, just because of how large the community is. I don't knock the project; I don't use astronvim myself, but I'm sure it's perfectly nice and functional. I just thing it's difficult to successfully distribute complicated configurations of projects that are supposed to be modular, bare bones and customizable by the end user themselves, because it's very hard to predict how the users will try to interact with them.
well said. It's the same issue as anything else that tries to make life "easier". It's the same reason I detest OhMyZsh. I did my nvim config from scratch,and 6 months later, it's god damned beautiful *sniff*. I've alao learned a shit ton in that turmoil, to where i'm now writing a hefty nvim plugin. I couldn't have done that if i used astro or nvchad. Easy way makes for weakness imo
@@Xemptuous I have a funny example about sth that happened to me; I use Vimtex to write and compile latex in vim and I prefer to use tectonic as a latex compiler. When I had this line: vim.cmd([[ syntax enable ]]) in my init.lua, everything worked, but Vimtex would fall back to Texlive as a compiler. This is extraordinarily random as a bug, but it happened. Good luck debugging this if you use something like astronvim
Check out my tutorial on Leap, a Neovim plugin to make you move faster!
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Please make more videos explaining neovim and astronvim in particular. really useful for someone like me who's so used to vscode and is wanting to go into nvim but doesn't really know where to start
I agree this was perfect and extremely helpful. More of this PLEASE!
100% agree
I also vouch for this comment
Start with "Learn Vim" VsCode extension.
this was hands down the best presentation of a neovim config I've ever seen. I learned a few things that apply to me even though I no longer use astronvim. This is the explanation I needed a year ago. lol. fantatsic job.
What do you use now ?
I would also like to know what you use now
@@avinashthakur80 I went with Lazyvim. to me it seems like there's a more straightforward approach to extension and configuration, and I feel like there's less that's hidden away from the user.
@@dogyX3 I went with Lazyvim. to me it seems like there's a more straightforward approach to extension and configuration, and I feel like there's less that's hidden away from the user.
@@WillEhrendreich Interesting. I'm also using Lazyvim now, but I liked their defaults. Particularly having git in File explorer window and docked terminal.
Best AstroNvim video I've ever seen, super usefull. I have been using astro vim for about 6 months now and thanks to your video I have just discovered many more utilities.
The latest additional functionality has made AstroNvim most loved neovim configuration. I have tried and experimented with other configurations such as lazyvim, kickstart, NuChad but AstroNvim is the best .Keep updating with supplement video tutorial with latest updates.
I've been using AstroVim for almost a year and it fitted so well with me. A couple of commands and you are ready to go with almost any LSP supported language
That was a great intro for someone just getting started with neovim like me! Thank you very much!
It would be nice to get a comparison between all the neovim pre-made configs like AstroNVim, LunarVim, LazyVim, NVChad etc.
Nvchad ftw!
@@korigamikyou say it's best?
IMO you should try and recreate them on your own, you’ll have much more flexibility. It may take some time but you’ll be able to adjust your config more easily :)
Good
@@tidzej5400 yes I say that !
I just loved this video. I've been using AstroNvim for a few days now and here I've learned a lot that I just didn't know. Things I thought weren't even possible with Nvim. Thanks man!
This is a great video, for someone like me, starting with neovim. I feel difficult to set up a custom config as of now, so I will definitely give astrovim a look!
I recommend doing it yourself, for the same reason i'm against OhMyZsh (lots of bloat you don't need, and not as "custom" as you want). It's a fun side project, and if you use a repo, you never have to restart again. Some shell scripts here and there, and your nvim config is easily transferrable.
Easily the best tutorial on a Neovim config I've found
Really great intro and explanation. I am going to keep this bookmarked.
Best AstroNVim tutorial on TH-cam. Thanks!
I've been trying nvchad, but this one seems more batteries included and more config free, also less embarrassing to mention to others if needed.
Is this outdated?... Why cloning user template not working?... Can you please update what's happening?
Excellent and practical review of AstroNvim! Thank you!
This vid is amazing
You’re amazing. Thank you for this video!
i had to watch this video at 1/4 speed. so much info and so fast.
Thanks for such a great guide! I keep referring to it whenever I want to make small changes in my config!
Don't do this.
Just understand what's going on. Now only you can escape from tutorial hell.
Finally a video that shows a lot of key combinations, I left NvChad after getting frustrated because I couldn't grasp the keys
How does it compare to NvChad? Currently trying to switch back to vim from IntelliJ.
So, do I.
It's such a good video.. I wish I've seen it before I lost weeks trying to configure everything myself in a classic vim
man, you saved me days of researching, thanks a lot
Excelent presentation, I have learning neovim from zero, the astroNvim is great for me. Fantastic job.
Pure hype, everyone will be back in VS within the next six months.
I'll try it.
Astro is the best nvim config so far. Lunarvim had to install a ton of cli stuff before running and has a weird workflow, nvchad just didn't work no matter what I tried, lazyvim is fine but development is kind of slow. Astro you paste one command in the terminal and it works flawlessly and has the most features out of all of them
Thank you so much for this video! It was so helpful!
Also, if anyone runs into an issue with running search on files, make sure "ripgrep" is installed.
This is really awesome presentation! Thank you!
Interesting presentation. I manage my own config and setup, and at times it feels like using one of these Nvim "distro" could lower the workload while getting nice features.
My only worry is getting blocked in terms of customization (using my own plugins, custom null ls sources, set custom mappings).
Are there some limitations?
Anything that makes your life "easier" has its downsides. If you setup your own config and have a repo, you will never need a "distro". Any system i'm on is a simple git clone, and thanks to some shell scripts, I get it setup to run perfectly anywhere, even on my android termux lol
I recommend NvChad, easy to extend
@@Xemptuous you can do the same thing with any of these distros.. Lol
@@BlademanZX yeah except without all the bloat, lack of ease in customization, and not knowing it inside and out for future changes/fixes
@@Xemptuous and with the extra benefits of not spending shit tons of time
The presentation style reminds me of Fireship.
Nice work!
Good video, thanks, have one question, at 6:21 you have commented those line so fast, how did you do it?
exemplary quick tutorial , love it . makes me wanna switch to astronvim from lunarvim . thx for sharing , have fun
Awesome introducing, thanks a lot :)
8:24 how you are searching the github packages or you using any desktop app?
What is the name of a color theme, can I get same in VSCode ??
astrodark.
I don't know whether it's available for vscode. Just try search in extentions.
It doesn't take that much to configure and neovim directly for these features. Don't go crazy with everything being perfect and you'll be fine. The problem with using preconfigured distros of neovim (assuming you don't have core neovim knowledge) is when they stop being maintained you're left with little knowledge at all. If base vim and/or neovim has a keybind to do something (like create splits and navigate between them), changing it something seemingly more convenient or familiar to remember is a bad idea. It'll leave you unequipped when you need to hop on a server or temporary docker/cloud instance to do work and you don't have the ability or time to make it just like your dev environment. The more you can do with less, the better -- generally speaking.
very good video!! can't wait to see some more.
Great content man!
Needed an overview of what makes them worthwhile
how do you get function signature to show and be there when i type the arguments of a function?
after made the leader>a change and tryied to start the comand the following message was showed up "Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off"
Any idea how can i customize Heirline statusbar, I have tried all the ways in official doc to no avail.
it's not clear on which step I should push the configuration to my github. It's an empty repository at the beginning. Should I push the content of ~/.config/ to it ?
Finally i got right video 🎉 to make configuration for Astrovim but its also useful for others like nvChad, LazyVim
Bro, do more detailed tutorials. You explain so well. Please
Nice overview, thank you.
i cant trigger comletion with Ctrl space , do i need another pluguin? thank you for the video helped a lot
Nice, it's getting closer to Emacs with every iteration.
You convinced me to go Astro! Thank You!
I have a simple question regarding any distro of Neovim, I use VS code with vim extension, and I want to switch completely on Neovim or any distro of neovim like Lunarvim, Nvchad, or Astrovim. The only problem is I want to know the extensions, I like VS code because there are lots of extensions and I'm just a bit concerned about the things that I might not be able to use in Neovim, Please clear up my doubts regarding the extensions of Neovim, like what are the potential extensions that we cannot have in neovim, and in terms of extensions how better neovim is compared to VS code.
VS code is good but when I came across Neovim and its distros I was blown away I wanted to switch right away the only thing that holds me back is the extensions.
It'll be really helpful if you can clear those doubts on the topic of extensions regarding Neovim and its distros.
Anyway thank for this video it was really helpful, explanation is fantastic, looking forward for new videos like this.
there is nothing -- literally nothing that you can do in vscode that cannot/is not/has not already been done in neovim. Emacs is even more encompassing. Friendly editors like vscode and every other one you can think of are subsets of the functional capability of neovim (which in turn is a subset of the functional capability in emacs). But you have to do some programming to enable them / find them / etc.
I have a public config (as many ppl do) that can give you some plugin ideas. Nvim can do everything vscode can and more, and waaaay faster. You will have to learn, as with learning any nee configs, or languages. Your essentials will be lsp, cmp, mason, telescope, autopair, autosurround, treesitter, lspsaga, and many more. It's a fun journey, and a never ending side project.
@@sethm7761 Thank you so much, that's really insightful.
@@Xemptuous That sounds amazing, I guess I have to fully switch on Neovim, Thank you.
As a 2 year tmux+ vim user turned 3 year vs-coder (even without vim keybindings), vs code has consistently been more productive for me, and I don't think it's just preference. The main reason is, imho, vs code takes 20% of the time to learn and upkeep, does 95% of what vim and emacs can do, and does the essential things (editing, regex find and replace, terminal, remote development, language extensions & code completion, and little things like being able to copy and paste from the rest of your computer) in an intuitive, fast, often hassle-free way.
Neovim and Emacs can do all of this, as long as you're willing to put in the effort to understand keybindings, configuration scripting, multithreaded LSP configuration, vim compatibility nuances, terminal font configuration, etc... that vs code is usually one extension click away from doing for you.
Multiple persistent project sessions? In Vim it's a session manager plugin and multiple commands to use and bind to (or a deep dive into the vim user manual), in vs code it's just ctrl+R.
Git flow? Vs code has git graph. Vim has fugitive, which is great, but again, plenty to learn and be fluent in.
Replace a bunch of instances of text in your code with regex? Vim has bufdo, grep, etc... to manage this, with a little learning. Vs code has ctrl+shift+f for project-level find and replace.
To sum it up, I really just think the extra brainpower that vim and emacs take upfront and for maintenance along the way makes vs code the easy winner for my productivity. I'd like to hear if people have had different experiences than I have, as far as ease of setup and learning.
I try to set up AstroVim it show error "it show lazy.nvim requires Neovim >>=0.8.0" i don't how to resolve
Great tutorial, thank you!
I want to change the colorschem to gruvbox . If I do that then the notifications bar color changes to pink and it's difficult to see the notification text. How to resolve this issue?
Where is remapped in the config? I tried to locate where jj and jk are mapped to , but I just can't find it
@@cretezy Yeah I figured it out! I didn't know it was possible to eliminate the lag after entering 'j', a great plug-in!
Thank you! Very easy to follow along!
thanks for making this video. IMO this tree of keybindings is more impressive then all other great features. Thanks for people at astrovim for making it...
Beautiful!
Thanks for this Cretezy amazing in depth tutorial meant for newbs like me!
Thank you for the video. It just got me started on Astronvim. I am a noob to this. Why is the user folder after cloning from the template as mentioned showing as a hidden folder in neotree
Awesome! Thanks for making this video.
why my tailwind is not working properly on astronvim? i get a lot of error on my index.css when using @layer / @include
Thank you for the video can you please make some more videos on this
Looking to know how to swap j and k mappings for normal mode.
explain to me what's the point of reiventing the wheel, at this point it's jsut vs code
i have been using the neovim for like 3 months and it's really great. Glad i switched from vs code. I still have vs code on my pc.... with vim keybindings.😸
you'll leave it behind eventually, as it can do everything vscode does, and more, and way faster.
Thank you for detailed video! Do you use AstronVim bundle for refactor? How to setup imports automatic updates after file rename / move?
Thanks for video. How can I remap Esc to Capslock?
It would be complete for me if here was a project wide search and replace. I know spectre can do it and I didn't see it. Is there a "native" way to do that?
I like this! I've been using lazyvim but it's way more than what i need. I mostly do scripts for admin work.. So I went to leafvim which is nice too. But this is a really good setup. Thanks.
Is the information about installing custom plugins out of date because AstroNvim now uses Lazy instead of Packer to manage plugins?
I’m tried to follow your steps for installing and configuring the todo-comments plugin. If I create the file `lua/plugins/user.lua` as you did, it doesn’t work for me. However, if I create `lua/plugins/todo-comments.lua` and configure it there then it works fine. Do you have a guess as to why I’m seeing that result? Is it worse in some way to do what I did?
This was great! Thank you!
Great video.
I feel life is too short to learn all this but I will forever use vim bindings.
Great tutorial! Thank you for your hard work.
Please make a tutorial on andromeda theme for neovim, either usin astrovim or lazyvim.
even now, i am struggling with the my own neovim setup v/s primegean v/s vim from scratch v/s astrovim v/s lunarvim v/s .. list goes on and on
btw , which theme is used in video ? i like it
Great tutorial for beginner. Thank you
Hi..
Could you share how to organize imports (like VS code does) for typescript/react application? I had been going through the docs and wasted a lot of time.
If someone could help, it would be really great and I would get a starting point to understand nvim better..
Have problem with lazy loading. The plugin does not load when i require it in config below😢
@@cretezy thanks a lot) Also wanted to ask. when i have a function in separate file (e.g. sum.js) and i want to auto import it in main.js, cmp does not see it. auto import woks only if i have sum.ts as a buffer or opened tab. Is it fixible thing or it just how nvim works?
I've been using astro recently and i can pretty much say that neo chad is better in every way.
In dreams only.
Tell me five reasons.
Also, You spell it wrong. Not NeoChad, It's NvChad.
You should mention that you can also use the mouse at 0:00 in the video not at 15:00..
OH YEAH
I don't know you but you have my respect❤
How to install plugins for Linter,Debugger? I heard Mason will do it. Can you show the example of it?
Mason has separate repos and plugins for debuggers. You can install them through mason, but setting them up is a bit of a weird config. I did it for python, but that's about it. Linters ipm not sure of cus I always use lsps. Google has all the answers tho!
Can you make video of Python debugger example it will be great
I just jumped to lazynvim when Astro was using packer.
Now you're tempting me to come back. Not sure how they compare though ?
Do you have a tutorial to debug with Astro for JS and Rust files?
Really great video!
This is great. Please can we have more AstroNvim videos :). What are your favourite plugins? for example
I've tried NVChad and LunarVim,
But i think this is the setup I've been looking for.
I dont have user folder in my directory
Do you have an article?
I want to uninstall liners and other language realeated stuff how do I do it ............... I tried documents and stuff , didn't understand !!
@@cretezy I found solution in your video !!!!!!! lol ,Thanks !
It's great, i'll test it now.
followed all the steps, somehow my config looks very different, also my init.lua is way shorter. Perhaps anyone know what the problem could be?
@@cretezy Apparently yes, I now looked into ~/.config/nvim/lua/user/ , however that folder was empty maybe you have another idea?
Blazing fast on steroids
What is the key?
key this is "Space" in Astronvim
awesome ty!
This is great! I just moved to v3 from v2 and was having issues with migrating my user config, but this video helped clear up my knowledge gaps
Thanks a lot for the helpful video, can you create a video on how to configure Vimwiki and add a self template for vimwikiMakeDiaryNote, when creating a new daily note document with all rows from the template, such as title, date, todo, etc. Thanks a lot again.
Nice video. My only criticism is (although not really a criticism, just a semi-oversight that anyone could have done) is that watching this an looking at other comments, it is not super clear for someone that doesn't already understand what nvim is that astronvim is just a configuration, that anyoune could theoretically do for themselves.
A second thing that is not a criticism to this video or anything, just a general comment on the topic is that such projects although generally targeted towards newcomers to vim/nvim are a generally speaking bad choice if you don't understand the editor in some depth. It's much easier to configure vim by yourself using only plugins that you want and steering only as far from the default neovim editor as you need to. That way you can debug when something goes wrong, if you want to implement some weird feature that maybe is important to you but not as popular you don't have to worry about breaking everything and even if you do you'll know how to fix it because you have a simple configuration that you built yourself in the first place. Finally you will have a lot more support if something goes wrong and you use vanilla nvim with your configs rather than something like astronvim, just because of how large the community is.
I don't knock the project; I don't use astronvim myself, but I'm sure it's perfectly nice and functional. I just thing it's difficult to successfully distribute complicated configurations of projects that are supposed to be modular, bare bones and customizable by the end user themselves, because it's very hard to predict how the users will try to interact with them.
well said. It's the same issue as anything else that tries to make life "easier". It's the same reason I detest OhMyZsh. I did my nvim config from scratch,and 6 months later, it's god damned beautiful *sniff*. I've alao learned a shit ton in that turmoil, to where i'm now writing a hefty nvim plugin. I couldn't have done that if i used astro or nvchad. Easy way makes for weakness imo
@@Xemptuous I have a funny example about sth that happened to me; I use Vimtex to write and compile latex in vim and I prefer to use tectonic as a latex compiler. When I had this line: vim.cmd([[ syntax enable ]]) in my init.lua, everything worked, but Vimtex would fall back to Texlive as a compiler. This is extraordinarily random as a bug, but it happened. Good luck debugging this if you use something like astronvim