As a >50 year old. I'm just starting on my NeoVim journey. I'm a Java dev, but want to use Nvim for stuff like terraform, k8s manifests, bash, yaml, json etc etc. Hard part is getting all those key maps into my old brain.
Ha, I'm also 50+, so you're not alone with learning all of this. But seriously, the :Tutor for the motions is where the magic happens for me. Check that out! Something like di( to delete everything between () is just so cool 👍
vim-be-good is how I got started. Was in the same boat, not really getting the keys down. For a week I fired up vim-be-good daily, spent 15 minutes doing various tasks. After that, started my deep dive.
I've started using nvim last year, at 47. Thought I'd continue running VS Code in parallel for "serious work" while starting out with nvim for fiddling with simple config files, but somehow immediately used nvim for everything and never looked back. I'm far from knowing all the keys but I feel like it's possible to do most of the work with a basic set of keys, and then I learn a new trick every now and then, when I want to do something faster (today I learned / + cgn). Kickstart FTW 👍
your first kickstart last year was a great jumping off point to me with my neovim config. i did just that, took it, removed a bunch of stuff, added a bunch of stuff and modified a bunch of stuff to make it do what i want. it's the perfect starting ground for someone who wants to get started quickly with some sensible plugins and default mappings but doesn't want to be trapped by a distribution or someone else's "layer" great job TJ. the passion and effort that you and the neovim core team put into neovim is truly felt. thank you all for the great work.
The comments on the reasoning around the key mappings has been very useful to me. I'm always confused about what the standard is in regards to key mappings. Thanks a lot for these videos!
Haven't seen the full video yet but I have played with the kickstart for 3h. The documentation effort is incredible. That would by my fifth attempt at nvim... I never sticked simply because each time I grew tired of having to look for information for hours just to know how to do simple stuff or cobble things together. You guys managed to make it incredibly easy and enjoyable. I'm jumping left and right on the different helpers and learning so much without feeling lost or having to go look elsewhere. Again, just incredible. Tysm for all your hard work on this.
I've watched about 10 different videos on Vim/NVim config and followed through... Between having 10 different approaches to organisation and to remapping, but also watching a video just to realize down the line that I needed to switch to Lua, or the package manager is not supported, do I use mason or not, which auto-complete, etc... it is exhausting. This is the best video (and way)! It gives you an opinionated starter but this video and the incode comments give you all the info for you to take control. Thank you so much!!!
Brilliant! I have seen neovim for the first in action last week on youtube. I used kickstart to learn about vim and neovim this week. Now I have a fully self configured development environment for Rust, Python, Svelte, Flutter, shell, terraform with trouble, neotest, nvim-tree tighly integrated with telescope and whichkey. The kickstart project and this video helped me from not even knowing what vim and neovim exactly is to uninstalling all other editors and riding neovim.
Literally this morning I was watching your old video on this topic. I put it for Watch Later 😅 Thanks for the update. Great work. And thanks for the whole neovim thing in general. You guys rock.
I was recently searching for how to enable the highlight when yanking, and now I have an example. Thank you, I will give a star to the kickstart and use it.
Amazing video, thanks. I started neovim with your previous version of kickstart and I love how the documentation helps newbies like myself understand how (neo)vim works in general ! Thanks for the work you do.
I've been using a cobbled together, but working, config for close to a year now. I've started rewriting it with kickstart and have already learned a ton. Thanks for all the neovim greatness, TJ!
Holy crap this was amazing! TJ you killed it! This is the kind of thing I have been SEARCHING for, for about 6 months switching to Neovim from VS Crap.
@@scrungalthough some languages are most useful in an IDE (for instance, Java or C# or Delphi). What I tend to find is that I use IDEs for compiled languages if a good option is available and text editors for scripting languages, markup languages, stuff like that.
@@stefanalecu9532 but you can do everything an IDE does in the CLI, except faster. not that IDEs are bad per se, it's just that a graphical IDE wont compile ur project faster or be any more performant
I have been using NvChad so far to get used to moving around in neovim and this is an excellent video for someone like me to learn how to properly build configs.
You managed to convince an Emacs nerd to try out nvim finally. I've been trying to avoid it out of laziness and stubbornness (both b/c of Emacs and because of Vim). I might even incorporate some of the ideas in Kickstart in my own Evil Mode config in Emacs as well as how Kickstart itself is organized. Kudos to you, Teej
I am so thankful for this resource! Being a beginner to the neovim community, all of these new concepts seen so daunting. I really had no idea how I would learn how to configure vim (or use it). This helps sooo much!
Going to watch this several times. Such a great project. Started with NVChad...It was too prebuilt. Restarted with Primagean, love him, but too crazy. This is a perfect starting place for anyone who doesn't get NeoVim. Thank you TJ.
Been using Neovim for a year or so, made and remade my config many times, mostly copy pasting things together without completely understanding how everything worked. Well this video changed everything, now that I feel a bit more confident simply using vim/neovim as an editor I am taking the next step in understanding and customizing it and this video/walkthrough has helped clarify so much, huge thank you TJ! Well done :)
This is precisely the update video that was needed! Your first kickstart video is what got me moved away vscode and into neovim. It allowed me to have fun but I didn't really understand how to find things in the manual and find my own path to build it how I like. I've been looking all over for something like this. Thank you!
This right here broke the barrier for me starting with nvim on windows without needing to install wsl, or manually configure mingw, clang, cygwin, or anything else. This is clear, concise, and with three commands I am up and running. Well done.
i think that the best part of this video its that you are pushed to read the manual, i never setup a own nvim config, now i have all that i need with 50 lines of code. GREAT JOB
I managed to set up Neovim by following another video with a different configuration, everything worked out of the box with some tweaks but I was really looking for some good article or video explaining each part of the configuration in more details. Truly a gem this video is to start my journey into learning Neovim so I can customize it to my needs, instead of using someone else configuration
i am using neovim for 5 years but your configs showed me many plugins and options that i didn't know about, i am updating my configs according to yours right now so many usefull stuff, thank you for your effort!!!! THE VIM GOD!!
Man, what a good project and video! I tried a few of the neovim distributions (NvChad, LazyVim, ...), and tried getting c++ working, but I kept struggling! This project is finally causing neovim to make sense! Thanks!!!!
I switched from using LunarVim to kickstarter, the performance difference is enormous, kickstarter is the perfect lightweight starting point, and I finally tailored the config to my needs
After 2 months of going back and forth forcing myself to use vim motions on my main IDE, I can finally say I'm comfortable with it and even producing code faster. And now YT recommends me this video with such an awesome tool, so I think it's the perfect time to move to the terminal and finally leave my bloated / resource-waster / slow IDE behind. I simply can't believe how easy it was to setup everything with kickstart.
Decide to try this after feeling like AstroNvim came with a lot I didn't use or understand. This video and Kickstart is mostly easy to grok, although things like lazy, mason and treesitter are big subjects on their own. I personally struggled initially because I thought all the keymaps listed in the which-key menu were also managed by which-key. Which made no sense because the plugin's config is 5 lines and contains no commands. However, which-key isn't being used here except to load/display the menu by looking at it's config, and the description properties of your existing neovim keymaps. While initially confusing, I now love that the menu and keymaps are decoupled like that! Great Project!
Thank you, TJ! I finally have the balls to try out Neovim. I installed Kickstart two weeks ago, and I struggling through it. I went from highly frustrated to slightly productive in no time. I want to build this thing into my last IDE that I ever have to use.
This video pushed me over the edge to try to make my own Neovim configuration. Now after another month and learning more this was an great starting point!
pretty cool, i'm a beginner dev that didn't know what he was getting into, but seeing how the neovim + kickstart works, I can finally understand why scripting and being able to customize everything is so gosh darn cool. Lua is also really cool because it's simple enough that i can kinda understand even the more complicated bits that are in the config.
Well thought and thoroughly documented piece of software that is Telescope upon the great software that is Neovim. Thank you TJ for this great contribution.
I started my own configuration with a previous version of kickstart, now I have to admit that it's a bit messy. But this new version gave me ideas to add to my configuration and organize it better. I'm Brazilian, btw, and I live in the state next to the Brazilian creator of neovim, Tiago de Arruda, btw
I'm late to the party but thanks a lot for this. I used to be a pretty devout vim user for a long time, up until about 4 or 5 years ago I was fast and had a nice little decade-long setup I had developed with interactive debugging with vim-debug, etc, but at work everyone started using vscode and I ended up just moving over entirely since then. I've recently wanted to get my vim setup going again and now am seeing all this wild stuff that neovim has on offer and am going to start building my setup off of your kickstart. Cheers.
Thank You for Your video on using kickstart! I want to say THANK YOU to TJ DeVries, ALL Kickstart creators and maintainers and to ALL Neovim and Vim plugins makers! And Neovim and Vim makers! Writing and editing text can be so beautiful! R. I. P. Braam Moolenaar!
This is really cool! My own configuration was based on the older version of kickstart, but now that so many new things were added I think I'm just gonna start over again. Thank you for your hard work.
Thanks heaps for this video, really appreciated! to be honest, i found it a bit overwhelming at first, and only after i saw other videos setting up neovim from scratch did i understand what's going on. I really like how other videos placed plugins in their own files under a plugin directory, thus reducing the size of the init.lua file and easier to follow.
What a nice step-by-step video. I've already settled down my neovim config, but this video for sure inspires me to take some tidbits from it and make my config better. Thank you. P.S. It was nice to follow along with you updating kickstart on Twitch.
📝 Summary of Key Points: 📌 The Kickstart project for Neovim provides a comprehensive guide and template for setting up and configuring Neovim efficiently. 🧐 Kickstart is not a distribution but a starting point that guides users through configuring Neovim step by step, including setting up plugins, LSP, treesitter, and more. 💡 Additional Insights and Observations: 💬 "Read the friendly manual" emphasizes the importance of exploring and understanding Neovim's help documentation. 📊 Kickstart simplifies the process of installing and configuring plugins, LSPs, and other tools in Neovim. 🌐 The use of Lua in Neovim configuration is highlighted, emphasizing the need for users to familiarize themselves with Lua basics. 📣 Concluding Remarks: The Kickstart project offers a structured approach to setting up Neovim, guiding users through essential configurations like plugins, LSP, and more. By providing detailed explanations and step-by-step instructions, Kickstart aims to empower users to customize their Neovim experience effectively. Generated using TalkBud
I've been spending all of my free time learning Rust, and now I find this. There goes my Rust learning streak, now I'll probably spend 3 weeks geeking out totally with nvim and plugins and forget all about Rust. Bummer! I need to learn multitask my interests...
Great video! I've watched half a dozen 'get started with neovim' type videos in the last few years (still haven't made neovim my main editor...) and I still found myself learning something from this! Kickstart looks like a great way to jump in with something usable, I think I will give it a try.
I was just about to install doom emacs on my Debian literally right now. Then opened TH-cam app and this popped up. Let me watch the entire vid see if you can convince me enough to install neovim instead of doom . But I might just go with both haha
i think nvim is sooo much easier to use and customize than doom macs (i used ti use doom emacs). but ive been a linux user for a long time so im used to vim motions, that may be why.
As a Doom Emacs user, I believe both this and Doom are valuable and you should try both of them (we Doom people have made sure layers are nice to use and you can customize whatever you need). Hell, it even opens up quickly and if you have the server running (something you can actually do in (neo)vim too, but it's not so useful in that case), you can have emacsclient open up at light speed and have a persistent session so you can connect to it and create frames whenever you want. It's just my take, do whatever you want
Fantastic video. It’s motivated me to try to build my own config instead of using LazyVim. Lately, I feel my setup has become a bit sluggish, so curious to see what happens if I use kickstart as a starting point. Thanks again for the amazing content. Very inspirational and your delivery is captivating.
I have literally just started my Arch journey and I have a bad typing habit of only using 4 fingers. I can touch type but very inneficiantly. I'm getting into nvim as a vscode main, and need to be accurate with key presses. Sounds like a great way to get 2 birds with one stone. I've heard of total conversion nvim setups but I don't want to do something like that and get lost. This seems like a fantastic place to get started and I'm stoked this was suggested to me. I have seen your videos before but haven't subscribed. I'm changing that now 😅 Now to get this done, set up copilot and I'm practically where I am in vscode
Awesome video. Glad I found it, as I struggled a lots initially to start my journey with neovim. Things are definitly more clear and it works ! Just had the issue with neovim 10.0. failed to install mason-registry with error Vimscript function must not be called in a lua loop callback. After remove/reinstall neovim 0.9.5 it worked ok with the same kickstart
I was not expecting the "Wow" sound effect, but here we are. Might be time for me to purge my original nvim config and use kickstart as a base with my own keybinds Biggest thing for me is that I use leader > F for the searching because in my mind I'm finding stuff, not searching stuff
That opening sequence was Oscar worthy
Thanks, i'll add that to my resume
Hmm! Hmm!
Agreed
@@teej_dv I think he meant Oscar Pistorius
@@teej_dvNone of the cmp 🔌 will load.
Newbie here and I feel like I'm living the golden age of neovim.
Every month you can say: it’s better than it was a month ago
you are, thank god for lua
We are. I am having a blast with it
Just wait til we reach platinum age of Neovim!
@@netdavis its never been a hate relationship for me. Always loved it.
"For all my single users, pacman". Truth shots fired.
hahahaha just glad the joke came across well.
Hahahahaha I laughed out loud at this!
Just stopped at 24:45 to write this! So good
My wife prefers her espresso black, thanks!
* (where "wife" is a mac of course)
@@teej_dv ;) Really good video btw
As a >50 year old. I'm just starting on my NeoVim journey. I'm a Java dev, but want to use Nvim for stuff like terraform, k8s manifests, bash, yaml, json etc etc. Hard part is getting all those key maps into my old brain.
That's so cool!! Ya, getting them to stick in the brain is hard. Check out ":Telescope keymaps" it might help you
Ha, I'm also 50+, so you're not alone with learning all of this. But seriously, the :Tutor for the motions is where the magic happens for me. Check that out! Something like di( to delete everything between () is just so cool 👍
vim-be-good is how I got started. Was in the same boat, not really getting the keys down. For a week I fired up vim-be-good daily, spent 15 minutes doing various tasks. After that, started my deep dive.
I've started using nvim last year, at 47. Thought I'd continue running VS Code in parallel for "serious work" while starting out with nvim for fiddling with simple config files, but somehow immediately used nvim for everything and never looked back.
I'm far from knowing all the keys but I feel like it's possible to do most of the work with a basic set of keys, and then I learn a new trick every now and then, when I want to do something faster (today I learned / + cgn).
Kickstart FTW 👍
@@AnaloggruetzeI find you can be as productive as a traditional editor with only very basic key maps.
It's nice to see an update! After your first kickstart video I started to use NeoVim and since then I just love it! 🙏🏻
Thanks! Hopefully you like this one as well!!
Same
Welcome to the dark side
bro i am not able to use neovim on windows would you help me
@@trickymaster499 WSL2 my guy
your first kickstart last year was a great jumping off point to me with my neovim config. i did just that, took it, removed a bunch of stuff, added a bunch of stuff and modified a bunch of stuff to make it do what i want.
it's the perfect starting ground for someone who wants to get started quickly with some sensible plugins and default mappings but doesn't want to be trapped by a distribution or someone else's "layer"
great job TJ. the passion and effort that you and the neovim core team put into neovim is truly felt. thank you all for the great work.
The comments on the reasoning around the key mappings has been very useful to me. I'm always confused about what the standard is in regards to key mappings.
Thanks a lot for these videos!
I'm not new to neovim, but after watching this video I decided to remake my config using this awesome kickstart. It looks great
I am a literal surgeon and vim has felt insurmountable until this video. Thank you TJ and the kickstart team.
Just started my neovim journey this year and you have been an excellent source of reliable, concise and helpful information. Big thank you from me!
Haven't seen the full video yet but I have played with the kickstart for 3h.
The documentation effort is incredible. That would by my fifth attempt at nvim... I never sticked simply because each time I grew tired of having to look for information for hours just to know how to do simple stuff or cobble things together.
You guys managed to make it incredibly easy and enjoyable. I'm jumping left and right on the different helpers and learning so much without feeling lost or having to go look elsewhere.
Again, just incredible. Tysm for all your hard work on this.
Sounds like you should give Helix-editor a try. It's a more modern spin on vim with all the essentials build in.
I really like this approach to making tools more discoverable and noob-friendly without giving up the power user features. Thanks
your videos are all so good. they’re so concise and focused
thank you!! I really appreciate it. Glad you feel that way, it's good to hear the hard work is paying off :)
Lua really has pushed neovim to a different level of popularity. Love seeing people find this tool and seeing how powerful it is.
I've watched about 10 different videos on Vim/NVim config and followed through...
Between having 10 different approaches to organisation and to remapping, but also watching a video just to realize down the line that I needed to switch to Lua, or the package manager is not supported, do I use mason or not, which auto-complete, etc... it is exhausting.
This is the best video (and way)! It gives you an opinionated starter but this video and the incode comments give you all the info for you to take control.
Thank you so much!!!
Brilliant! I have seen neovim for the first in action last week on youtube. I used kickstart to learn about vim and neovim this week. Now I have a fully self configured development environment for Rust, Python, Svelte, Flutter, shell, terraform with trouble, neotest, nvim-tree tighly integrated with telescope and whichkey. The kickstart project and this video helped me from not even knowing what vim and neovim exactly is to uninstalling all other editors and riding neovim.
Literally this morning I was watching your old video on this topic. I put it for Watch Later 😅
Thanks for the update. Great work. And thanks for the whole neovim thing in general. You guys rock.
I was recently searching for how to enable the highlight when yanking, and now I have an example. Thank you, I will give a star to the kickstart and use it.
A lot of effort was done here. Thank you for helping the Community TJ
Amazing video, thanks. I started neovim with your previous version of kickstart and I love how the documentation helps newbies like myself understand how (neo)vim works in general ! Thanks for the work you do.
That's the goal! So glad I'm hitting the mark!!
bro do you use windows
I've been using a cobbled together, but working, config for close to a year now. I've started rewriting it with kickstart and have already learned a ton. Thanks for all the neovim greatness, TJ!
Holy crap this was amazing! TJ you killed it! This is the kind of thing I have been SEARCHING for, for about 6 months switching to Neovim from VS Crap.
hi do you use neovim in windows
@@trickymaster499 No, I am not a masochist. I use Linux, specifically Fedora and Arch on GTK.
give a man a neovim config and you feed him for a year. teach a man to configure neovim and you feed him for a lifetime.
Great video!
Or give him any IDE? Now if he wants a promotion... keke (lol)
@@fuzzy-02not every IDE is great for every language, but some text editors like nvim or even vscode let you work on any project in any language
@@scrungalthough some languages are most useful in an IDE (for instance, Java or C# or Delphi). What I tend to find is that I use IDEs for compiled languages if a good option is available and text editors for scripting languages, markup languages, stuff like that.
@@stefanalecu9532 but you can do everything an IDE does in the CLI, except faster. not that IDEs are bad per se, it's just that a graphical IDE wont compile ur project faster or be any more performant
I have been using NvChad so far to get used to moving around in neovim and this is an excellent video for someone like me to learn how to properly build configs.
You managed to convince an Emacs nerd to try out nvim finally. I've been trying to avoid it out of laziness and stubbornness (both b/c of Emacs and because of Vim). I might even incorporate some of the ideas in Kickstart in my own Evil Mode config in Emacs as well as how Kickstart itself is organized. Kudos to you, Teej
You are a blessing to this world when I grow up I want to be half the craftsman and educator you already are.
I am so thankful for this resource! Being a beginner to the neovim community, all of these new concepts seen so daunting. I really had no idea how I would learn how to configure vim (or use it). This helps sooo much!
Going to watch this several times. Such a great project. Started with NVChad...It was too prebuilt. Restarted with Primagean, love him, but too crazy. This is a perfect starting place for anyone who doesn't get NeoVim. Thank you TJ.
I'm in LITERALLY the exact same boat hahaha. I'll stick with this one thanks
Been using Neovim for a year or so, made and remade my config many times, mostly copy pasting things together without completely understanding how everything worked. Well this video changed everything, now that I feel a bit more confident simply using vim/neovim as an editor I am taking the next step in understanding and customizing it and this video/walkthrough has helped clarify so much, huge thank you TJ! Well done :)
This is precisely the update video that was needed! Your first kickstart video is what got me moved away vscode and into neovim. It allowed me to have fun but I didn't really understand how to find things in the manual and find my own path to build it how I like. I've been looking all over for something like this. Thank you!
This right here broke the barrier for me starting with nvim on windows without needing to install wsl, or manually configure mingw, clang, cygwin, or anything else. This is clear, concise, and with three commands I am up and running. Well done.
i think that the best part of this video its that you are pushed to read the manual, i never setup a own nvim config, now i have all that i need with 50 lines of code. GREAT JOB
LETS GO!!! That's definitely one of the goals :)
I managed to set up Neovim by following another video with a different configuration, everything worked out of the box with some tweaks but I was really looking for some good article or video explaining each part of the configuration in more details. Truly a gem this video is to start my journey into learning Neovim so I can customize it to my needs, instead of using someone else configuration
I was there live for this video and also for you working on Kickstart.
This was a service to the community.
Thanks Teej
Amazing video! Will recommend this to anyone who wants to get started with Neovim from now on.
i am using neovim for 5 years but your configs showed me many plugins and options that i didn't know about, i am updating my configs according to yours right now so many usefull stuff, thank you for your effort!!!! THE VIM GOD!!
Clear and concise. Shared the video with my colleagues who wanted to start out with neovim but wanted something usable out of box .
This is the best walktrough i've found so far. Goes into details but doesn't overload you with information like others
This project is so awesome. I tried Neovim and I got stuck on the basics. This project helped me to enjoy learning Neovim. Thank you.
Man, what a good project and video! I tried a few of the neovim distributions (NvChad, LazyVim, ...), and tried getting c++ working, but I kept struggling! This project is finally causing neovim to make sense! Thanks!!!!
I switched from using LunarVim to kickstarter, the performance difference is enormous, kickstarter is the perfect lightweight starting point, and I finally tailored the config to my needs
After 2 months of going back and forth forcing myself to use vim motions on my main IDE, I can finally say I'm comfortable with it and even producing code faster. And now YT recommends me this video with such an awesome tool, so I think it's the perfect time to move to the terminal and finally leave my bloated / resource-waster / slow IDE behind. I simply can't believe how easy it was to setup everything with kickstart.
ok but why did he skip the installation of kickstart itself?
Decide to try this after feeling like AstroNvim came with a lot I didn't use or understand. This video and Kickstart is mostly easy to grok, although things like lazy, mason and treesitter are big subjects on their own.
I personally struggled initially because I thought all the keymaps listed in the which-key menu were also managed by which-key. Which made no sense because the plugin's config is 5 lines and contains no commands. However, which-key isn't being used here except to load/display the menu by looking at it's config, and the description properties of your existing neovim keymaps. While initially confusing, I now love that the menu and keymaps are decoupled like that!
Great Project!
This is the video that will finally get me to switch to neovim. Thank you, TJ, for your work and sorry to all of my future pair programming partners.
Yoo!!! The intro is amazing and made me laugh 😂
Thanks
Thank you, TJ! I finally have the balls to try out Neovim. I installed Kickstart two weeks ago, and I struggling through it. I went from highly frustrated to slightly productive in no time. I want to build this thing into my last IDE that I ever have to use.
This video pushed me over the edge to try to make my own Neovim configuration. Now after another month and learning more this was an great starting point!
pretty cool, i'm a beginner dev that didn't know what he was getting into, but seeing how the neovim + kickstart works, I can finally understand why scripting and being able to customize everything is so gosh darn cool. Lua is also really cool because it's simple enough that i can kinda understand even the more complicated bits that are in the config.
“Effective Neovim” got me into neovim. Its great to see an update!
the microscopically soft editor, aka VSC*** blip was incredible. 10/10 for this masterpiece of video
Well thought and thoroughly documented piece of software that is Telescope upon the great software that is Neovim. Thank you TJ for this great contribution.
Thanks man, I have started using Neovim 5 months ago and I use it as my daily driver. But I still managed to learn much in this video.
Oh that's super awesome to hear! Was shooting for useful for people of many different neovim experiences!
Loved it. Kickstart adheres to the "Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible." nugget from Alan Kay. Thanks TJ for your work!
the intro confused me until I realized what was happening, great video
I started my own configuration with a previous version of kickstart, now I have to admit that it's a bit messy. But this new version gave me ideas to add to my configuration and organize it better. I'm Brazilian, btw, and I live in the state next to the Brazilian creator of neovim, Tiago de Arruda, btw
I’m Brazilian btw
As someone who has been daily driving a neovim distribution but always are a little fuzzy on the details and concepts, this video is actually goated.
I'm late to the party but thanks a lot for this. I used to be a pretty devout vim user for a long time, up until about 4 or 5 years ago I was fast and had a nice little decade-long setup I had developed with interactive debugging with vim-debug, etc, but at work everyone started using vscode and I ended up just moving over entirely since then. I've recently wanted to get my vim setup going again and now am seeing all this wild stuff that neovim has on offer and am going to start building my setup off of your kickstart. Cheers.
Normally I don’t ever leave comments, I couldn’t resist subscribing after that powerful delivery at 13:00
As a neovim convert I can’t believe more people don’t use it. It’s honestly a great editor.
Thank You for Your video on using kickstart!
I want to say THANK YOU to TJ DeVries, ALL Kickstart creators and maintainers and to ALL Neovim and Vim plugins makers! And Neovim and Vim makers! Writing and editing text can be so beautiful! R. I. P. Braam Moolenaar!
Nice to see the quality improve so much since you do it full time. :)
Dude I've been using nvim for a while but there have always been some gaps in my understanding of the basics. This finally clears it up
I really appreciate for your contribution to the Neovim community. This add soo much value to my daily life as programmer.
that's so great to hear!!
Excellent video! It was also a blast being around for so much of the recording process and cool seeing the final product.
This is really cool! My own configuration was based on the older version of kickstart, but now that so many new things were added I think I'm just gonna start over again. Thank you for your hard work.
Watched some of this on stream and I gotta say, it came out really good!
Started using NeoVim after this wonderful video. Struggling with moving around files in a project, but I'll get the hang of it
I learned nvim for about 3 years and switched to emacs few months ago. I do not regret this path
Thank you! Absolute best resource out there for achieving Neovim clarity.
Learning Lua for past two days. Finished watching this video. Time to switch to NeoVim ♥! Great content.
Thank you! I'd recommend adding a "remember my cursor position" to kickstart
Nice update. Thanks for the work! My config needs a refresh... Ill probably start here as a base and pull in what I need. ❤ TJ
Wow - just as I was looking to lean more on standards, here it is! Thank you 🎉
Thanks heaps for this video, really appreciated! to be honest, i found it a bit overwhelming at first, and only after i saw other videos setting up neovim from scratch did i understand what's going on. I really like how other videos placed plugins in their own files under a plugin directory, thus reducing the size of the init.lua file and easier to follow.
Probably the best Vim config explanation I've been through so far. Thanks
Thank you!!
13:08: Filled the checklist
Thanks for you amazing work :D
What a nice step-by-step video. I've already settled down my neovim config, but this video for sure inspires me to take some tidbits from it and make my config better. Thank you.
P.S. It was nice to follow along with you updating kickstart on Twitch.
Your kickstarter is definitely the best place to start with.
What a great time to switch to neovim.
This is so amazing. Thanks for the work you're doing on kickstart and this channel.
Kickstart is SO well documented! Love it.
Did a full tutorial on Neovim at Laracasts but I am back to this. Amazing project thank you!
Unfortunately I have been up until 3 am configuring Neovim already... but after I get sleep, I am checking this out.
nice :)
📝 Summary of Key Points:
📌 The Kickstart project for Neovim provides a comprehensive guide and template for setting up and configuring Neovim efficiently.
🧐 Kickstart is not a distribution but a starting point that guides users through configuring Neovim step by step, including setting up plugins, LSP, treesitter, and more.
💡 Additional Insights and Observations:
💬 "Read the friendly manual" emphasizes the importance of exploring and understanding Neovim's help documentation.
📊 Kickstart simplifies the process of installing and configuring plugins, LSPs, and other tools in Neovim.
🌐 The use of Lua in Neovim configuration is highlighted, emphasizing the need for users to familiarize themselves with Lua basics.
📣 Concluding Remarks:
The Kickstart project offers a structured approach to setting up Neovim, guiding users through essential configurations like plugins, LSP, and more. By providing detailed explanations and step-by-step instructions, Kickstart aims to empower users to customize their Neovim experience effectively.
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The intro is good, but a summary like that does the video a disservice because the detail it goes into is actually really important
I've been spending all of my free time learning Rust, and now I find this. There goes my Rust learning streak, now I'll probably spend 3 weeks geeking out totally with nvim and plugins and forget all about Rust. Bummer! I need to learn multitask my interests...
Thanks TJ for all the setup comments. I've previously gotten things to work - without fully understanding WHY it works.
that's EXACTLY the goal!!
Thank you soooooo much for make it easier to Windows users, It's so nice to be able to work with this config natively in my machine.❤
🎉Thanks for explaining those common-seen things, very concise. I didn’t understand most of them before.
Appreciate you setting us up for success. This is fantastic.
Great video! I've watched half a dozen 'get started with neovim' type videos in the last few years (still haven't made neovim my main editor...) and I still found myself learning something from this! Kickstart looks like a great way to jump in with something usable, I think I will give it a try.
I was just about to install doom emacs on my Debian literally right now. Then opened TH-cam app and this popped up. Let me watch the entire vid see if you can convince me enough to install neovim instead of doom . But I might just go with both haha
i think nvim is sooo much easier to use and customize than doom macs (i used ti use doom emacs).
but ive been a linux user for a long time so im used to vim motions, that may be why.
@@SnowDaemonI am trying to get the hang of it. So far so good . I’m liking it .
As a Doom Emacs user, I believe both this and Doom are valuable and you should try both of them (we Doom people have made sure layers are nice to use and you can customize whatever you need). Hell, it even opens up quickly and if you have the server running (something you can actually do in (neo)vim too, but it's not so useful in that case), you can have emacsclient open up at light speed and have a persistent session so you can connect to it and create frames whenever you want. It's just my take, do whatever you want
as a noob purist, I really wanna get good at using nvim, but hoooly is the rabbit hole deep. thank you tj
Fantastic video. It’s motivated me to try to build my own config instead of using LazyVim. Lately, I feel my setup has become a bit sluggish, so curious to see what happens if I use kickstart as a starting point. Thanks again for the amazing content. Very inspirational and your delivery is captivating.
The Tutor part of nvim is a gem, I hope vim had it when I was younger.
I have literally just started my Arch journey and I have a bad typing habit of only using 4 fingers. I can touch type but very inneficiantly. I'm getting into nvim as a vscode main, and need to be accurate with key presses. Sounds like a great way to get 2 birds with one stone.
I've heard of total conversion nvim setups but I don't want to do something like that and get lost. This seems like a fantastic place to get started and I'm stoked this was suggested to me. I have seen your videos before but haven't subscribed. I'm changing that now 😅
Now to get this done, set up copilot and I'm practically where I am in vscode
Till I try to learn lua I think this will suit my needs better. Thanks for this sir.
"For my single users, it's kind of like pacman"
I don't care how accurate it is, I'm feeling attacked
Awesome video. Glad I found it, as I struggled a lots initially to start my journey with neovim. Things are definitly more clear and it works ! Just had the issue with neovim 10.0. failed to install mason-registry with error Vimscript function must not be called in a lua loop callback. After remove/reinstall neovim 0.9.5 it worked ok with the same kickstart
As an idiot, I'm glad he's making so much of this content. I just switched back to Lazyvim after struggling to config some of the plugins I want
I was not expecting the "Wow" sound effect, but here we are.
Might be time for me to purge my original nvim config and use kickstart as a base with my own keybinds
Biggest thing for me is that I use leader > F for the searching because in my mind I'm finding stuff, not searching stuff
thanks TJ, I had to switch back to nvim from helix and this is giving me that batteries included experience I switched to helix for