Novus Vim: Eximius Editor in Novo Munde

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Neovim is so useful that I’ve been able to finish a project in a day that I hadn’t worked on for 2 years!

This is my new ‘Plang2’ Neovim Plugin as working controlling a LMT-01 thermometer chip, connected to a STM32F051 mcu running Forth on my desk right now. Its totally different to the one above although it looks the same to a layman.

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Hey @techman, i’m further along in my neovim journey. Particularly in conjunction with tmux, i’m getting close to having a viable VSCode alternative. I’m gradually embracing telescope too, but i must admit, it’s still not coming naturally to me.

I thought i should share something that i only knocked a little rough edge on today. It was bugging me that i was frequently getting jammed up to update Lazy packages on my first nvim use every day. It was the terminal equivalent of a Temu popup if you catch my drift.

Anyway, this is what’s in my .bashrc to get neovim wired up for a day’s work…

if [ -x "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/nvim" ]; then
  alias nvim="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/nvim"
  alias "vim=nvim"
  alias "vi=vim"
  export EDITOR="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/nvim"
  LAZY_SYNC_STAMP="$HOME/.cache/lazy_last_sync"
  if [ ! -f "$LAZY_SYNC_STAMP" ] || [ "$(date +%Y%m%d)" != "$(cat $LAZY_SYNC_STAMP)" ]; then
    nvim --headless "+Lazy! sync" +qa &>/dev/null & disown
    date +%Y%m%d > "$LAZY_SYNC_STAMP"
  fi
fi

The key part is the neovim --headless line. It has the packages updated before i use neovim for the first time on any machine that i connect to. You might be doing something else, and if so i’d love to see your approach.

FWIW @Belfry, this happens to be an example of some of the repo stuff we talked about while looking at @Sway the other day. My ~/.bashrc is a symlink to ~/bin/bashrc, so when i added that little disown after the &, i happened to be on my host called bev. A git add/commit/pull/push made it available to all of my other machines. My ~/cfg and ~/bin repos get three or four little adjustments like this practically every day.

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I’m mostly using Helix for general coding as it’s just so awesome, but I’ll have to move to nvim soon as my nvim Forth related pop up is almost finished.

And I need it to enable fast prototyping in embedded.

Terry