I've finally made the move after being introduced to vim
back in at the Univeristy of Kentucky (Go Big Blue!) in the last millennium.
Sluggishness is my pet peeve and was the motivation for moving because vim
loaded with all my plugin's was painfully slow on some of my 10k+ lines of source files that I had to work on and tabnine AI completion support was depreciated.
Another reluctance was not knowing the effort involved in supporting my plugins and language servers that I relied on which had become ingrained. I had no clue what updates would I need to make to my current .vimrc to work.
However, I got it mostly running in a little over an hour with minor tweaks to my original .vimrc (still using vimscript
) and moving to Plug
manager which was used in the example I followed.
It's night and day faster with no discernible lag for the huge files I was seeing previously with mostly everything working as it was before (the git blame pop script complains with an unknown function error). See the recommendations for some nifty new things.
Steps involved:
cp init.vim ->
$HOME/.config/nvim/init.vim
allowing use of your current vimscript.vimrc
Install Plug Plugin manager
Inject any lua related config (LS/tabnine) in your
.vimrc
block as
lua << EOF
...
EOF
Install your plugin's via
nvim +PlugInstall +qall
update your aliases
alias vim=nvim
alias vi=nvim
And that's pretty much it. I hope this helps. Onwards and upwards.
Recommendations:
run
:checkhealth
innvim
command and fix issuesmason to manage
nvim
package which manages language servers
Future improvements:
I plan on porting my .vimrc to lua
, so keep tabs on it.