Playing with NeoVim

If you know anything about SWE, you’ve most likely heard about Vim before. It’s an in-terminal tool that some people use instead of VScode. But whenever I tried it, it would take 2+ minutes to even start the file. That’s annoying. Because of that, I had only used VScode this whole time.

So this was a new change.

There’s so many things I had to adjust. First was the exclusive use of the keyboard. NeoVim does allow mouse, but everything’s optimized for the keyboard, and I want to challenge myself to use it as well. Next, the hole Normal/Insert/Visual/Command modes which make sure I cant type when I want to. I keep finding myself trying to type, only to be cock-blocked by the NORMAL mode indicator at the bottom of the terminal. Not the best thing to see after typing so passionately.

Anyhoo, there’s still so much to get used to and learn about NeoVim. I’ve gotta get used to not using the trackpad, all the different actions for each letter, and the commands that I can run. So much to learn, but I’ll get used to one thing at a time while working on these blog posts.