Neovim - Speaker Deck

Neovim

by Nick Nisi

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NEOVIM

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WHAT'S WRONG WITH VIM? > Nothing! > over 20 years old > 300K lines of "scary" C89 code > All code is Bram Mooleaner's responsibility > Lots of platform-specific code > All plugin code runs synchronously

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WHAT DOES NEOVIM DO BETTER? > Aggressively refactor source code1 > Replace platform-specific code with libuv > Simplify maintenance > Split work between multiple developers > Provide a new plugin architecture based on coprocesses > Plugins can be written in any language without explicit support from the editor 1 https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Introduction

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INSTALLING NEOVIM OSX brew tap neovim/neovim brew install --HEAD neovim Ubuntu sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neovim-ppa/unstable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install neovim Windows (experimental) See https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Installing-Neovim#windows

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WHAT ELSE DO I NEED TO DO TO GET STARTED?

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nvim

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THERE BE DRAGONS

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BUT I ALREAD HAVE A VERY COMPLICATED .vimrc ln -s ~/.vimrc ~/.nvimrc ln -s ~/.vim ~/.nvim alias vim="nvim"

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DID YOU NOTICE A DIFFERENCE? ME EITHER

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LET'S MAKE A FEW SMALL CHANGES

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SYNTASTIC -> NEOMAKE

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SYNTASTIC AND NEOMAKE > Syntax checking plugin for vim/ neovim > Runs files through an external syntax checker and displays the resulting errors on file save > JSHint > TSLint > Rubocop

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VIM-PLUG

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VIM-PLUG Similar to vundle, but super-fast! call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged') Plug 'tpope/vim-fugitive' Plug 'tpope/vim-repeat' Plug 'garbas/vim-snipmate' " On-demand loading Plug 'scrooloose/nerdtree', { 'on': 'NERDTreeToggle' } " Unmanaged plugin (manually installed and updated) Plug '~/my-prototype-plugin' " Add plugins to &runtimepath call plug#end()