Good job, love your courses on FEM. Also hope that you can bring DevAsLife on RU-vid to your show! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XTGABtNh2EY.html
Not really; you should only need to literally follow along for the first couple of plugins, after that; you should've already known the pattern, you'll find a lot of plugin setup methods being called differently now in their repos, just use what's in their docs and not exactly copy what's in the video because things change
I followed it and actually been using nvim ever since, and it's been fucking great. I tried to switch like 3-4 times before but I could never get completions, highlighting and intellisense working without hours of wasted effort. And this legend just showed me how to do all 3 in 10 minutes What did you not get? It's all pretty "do this, do y" imo
@@GottZ thanks for the hint. For some odd reason, I had this self-implied (irrational) limitation of: „Either do it yourself from scratch OR check out the repo.“ 🙈 It’s generally advisable to look at every available information before starting.☝️
Regarding the Harpoon keymaps, Prime uses a dvorak keyboard, so the equivalent keymaps for the ui.nav_file lines on a qwerty keyboard would be "", "", "" and "".
did this, I see he's switching between files with ctrl+t and ctrl+h, but for me neither these two nor hjkl do anything (Edit: was missing the < before every "C -" :D)
Videos like this make vim SO much more approachable. If not for your original vimrc videos, I wouldn't have stuck with it for over 2 years at this point. Thank you for what you do!
Yes same here. Prime was the one that explained plugins in a way that I finally understood. If not for prime, I'm not sure if I would even be as into tech in general as I am today.
Prime, I'll do you one better by pre-thanking you! Words cannot describe how useful this video will be to me and many many other people starting out with Neovim. Much, much appreciated ♥️
I've got to say insane video! thanks for donating to this amazing person I've struggled a bit to configure neovim myself and this video explained it really well and in very nice detail I can even do my own remaps now! Amazing
For those who find themselves faced with the following error from nvim-treesitter: "lua:86: Parser not available for language...'". Re-watch 11:18 but DO NOT add "help" to the "ensure_installed" options list. Instead, you'll want to replace it with "vimdoc". After that, as of writing this, you shouldn't get any parser errors coming from nvim-treesitter.
also, if you are on macOS (and u have apple silicon ) make sure your terminal app (e.g iTerm2) is not running in rosetta mode otherwise tree sitter will throw `wrong architecture needs arm64 found x86_64`
My terminal colors went nuts when I installed the rose-pine package (7:10) for coloring (funnily all background went CYAN lol). It turned out the reason why the colors went haywire was because of the terminal I was using. (I was using just the native Mac terminal). I think it was something like rose-pine was using colors that the terminal didn't support. I installed iTerm2 and everything was good. Thanks for the video Primeagen!
I would love an updated video. A lot has changed since this video came out, for example, Packer is deprecated and Harpoon is now on V2. It makes this a little harder to follow. But still an awesome video! Thanks!
@@corbinslaymaker3346 It may work fine now, but using depracated software is generally discouraged. A new nvim releaase can break it, other plugins can break it, and nothing can be done to fix it (unless you go and fork packer yourself to fix it, but then you're just making your own plugin manager).
@@nathanielthomas4437 thanks ya i didn't know much about all that. i ended up installing NvChad anyways, which i'm already liking a lot. it's still really minimal but didn't require really any configuration at all.
This is amazing. Finally allowed me to properly use nvim. I tried other preconfigured nvim setups, like lunarvim or nvchad and never fully liked them. Yet messing around with nvim rc seemed daunting and other videos weren't quite as comprehensive. Thanks primeagen, keep up the good work.
Honestly, I don't know how anyone is supposed to get started with vim without your videos... I've been going over your last several vim videos the past few days trying to figure out how to get it to work. This video helped more than you could imagine :D Thank you!
Setting up my own nvim config along-side this video was great! (much pausing and seeking back needed ). Truly a great video. P.S. 8 months down the line some of the plugins have evolved from the versions shown in the video (i.e. the configuration snippets taken from the various plugin readme files don't match anymore).
For those who were getting error on 2:23 , He is not opening the vim , He had aliased it with nvim , so If you got an error such as not found or something at this step, try opening the file with "nvim remap.lua" rather then "vim remap.lua" (For those beginning in nvim editor)
I don't know who needs to hear this, but order of operations matter when setting up remaps and options. I have spent 30 minutes trying to figure out why my pv wasn't working and the problem was the remap.lua was "required" before the set.lua thus the leader key was not yet remapped to the space key. Great video as always, though. Keep them coming.
Hey, I'm completely new to this and have this issue. But I have no idea what you mean by 'remap.lua was "required" before the set.lua'... Can you tell me what to do to get this to work? For now, I'm trying to continue without remapping it, but I'd really appreciate the help :) Edit: Sorry, now that I have continued watching the Video I know what you mean, sadly this was not the issue that I was having :( If you want / know how to help anyway: When I press pv it doesn't recognize(?) it as leader and I just paste and then go into visual mode...
I've used vim on and off since college, but not gonna lie all the new complexity around LSP & Lua has kept me away from trying it seriously. I really appreciate having a resource like this that shows how to go from zero to an IDE-like experience. Keep up the good work!
Bro, you just got my words ! Exactly the complexity around LSP & Lua is f*ckin sick. You have to spend ages to learn this stuff I will step back and would like to appreciate the beauty of simplicity of vim...
Besides updated plugins, what else has changed that you can’t extrapolate yourself? Writing lua code and vim scripts hasn’t changed. Why does he need to spend another 10+ hours on this a year and a half over the previous was made? A lot if not everything is the same in this….
Amazing video! The information density is impressive. I have been on the journey for over a year now, but I still learned a lot in the past 30 minutes. I would absolutely love a video in this style about setting up the DAP. But most importantly, enjoy the Christmas break :)
Pressing the like button is honestly not enough for an effort like this. I have to thank you. Even though I have my own config it is always fun and interesting to see other people's setup. Thank you so much 🙏
Thank you! I've been using vim full time since 2016, and I have been meaning to give Neovim a try but have been dragging my feet. This primer is a great entrypoint for understanding neovim configuration, so I actually have an idea how the neovim ecosystem actually works
i didn't follow this exactly but i built up my own neovim by the end it took me in the range of 5 - 8 hours i think but its worth it because i not only know everything i have installed but i also understand how it all works and got to set my own binds. for someone who is new to neovim this was extremely helpful
The best vim/nvim starter video I have seen to date. Love it, you really helped me actually understand and create my own nvim setup instead of mindlessly copying somebody elses config
fyi, the greatest key remap ever @ 27:11, where you paste without copying the selected text that you're pasting over. You can accomplish the same thing by just pasting with capital "P" instead of lowercase "p".
This is the best neovim video on the internet. We need a new one of these every 6 months to keep up to date with the best starting packages and if any apis of configs have changed. Awesome work.
At 15:37 heard myself thinking "holy shit." I've been using vim for around 4 years now and just never really customized it much (used tmux while at my last job but just found it to be alright), but that harpoon just looks so amazing. So many improvements over vim in this video that I can't wait to use. Thanks so much Prime
I recently started learning vim because of you. You make it look so easier and way less overcomplicated. I might definitely replace intelliJ (with which I'm proficient) with it soon. Thank you!
@@greglocker2124 I'm working on a very large one. IntelliJ's products work pretty well on it except... When I switch to a previous version for XYZ reason. Then, the IDE starts to scan the repo(s) to rebuild its indexes and this takes a shit tons load of time. :/
I’ve been using neovim out of the box plug-ins like LunarVim and LazyVim and never really thought about doing my own config, least to say I haven’t looked back I’m having so much fun customising it, been a treat!
Thank you for such a fantastic walk through. I was looking for alternatives to my current IDE. This is exactly what I was looking for. The speed of these tools is impressive. Also I have been using Harpoon for a week now. What a solid tool. Great work.
I think it's great that you made this video, because now all newcomers can not only see how great (Neo)Vim is, but also get a very solid basic equipment at hand, which actually leaves nothing to be desired. And if you do, it's very easy to expand it. Thanks for that! 🙂
Knowledge + Charisma = Quality content. Amazing video. I've followed another guides and have mason as a plugin manager, but I'm really looking forward to implement some of your tweaks.
meu problema só está dando ao configurar a leader key, sempre que entro e saio do vim ela não funciona mais, preciso is dentro do remap.lua e rodar :so de novo :(
I started using vim emulator in vscode a week and a half ago and i absolutely love it. Thank you primeagen 🙏 i do not like vscode and i never thought of changing it as basically everyone i know swears of it. But finding your channel blew my mind how fast you were, hope to be like you in the near future 🙏
It will let you down once you have a big enough codebase. I wish someone would've told me before my LSP starting taking 2+ seconds to respond. Classic Microsoft dumpsterware
@@greglocker2124 i've had slowdowns in a small node serverless aws repo, but very little in a large next app, i don't know what the reason is. I still out weigh the benefits of it over the slowness of auto imports and such
The content of the video is nice, but what was the most useful is following the keystrokes to learn how you navigate and edit documents. It was eye opening!
Thanks! Saved my ass after years of vscode hell and its terrible C++ support and general terribleness. Using the vim keybindings for years but nvim + tmux is all I need anymore. On top of that, I regained enthusiasm for my work because I am not yelling at my editor all the time. THANK YOU
This video took 0.5 day for me. I got a lot of issues with nvim. But! Now Im able to write some rustic code in nvim. Thank you very much, you changed my life kinda)
If anyone is curious why when two windows are open only one of them have the transparent background, that's because the "normal" highlighting group doesn't include non-current windows. To set all of neovimt to be transparent, also use `vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "NormalNC, {})` for the normal non-current group.
This is sooooo cool! Only wish I watched this like 15 years ago when I was first getting into coding. I remember trying to figure out why everyone loved vim so much and just never saw this side of it. This is awesome!
No cap, this is amazing. I've bounced around editors for the past few years, most recently using VSCode with an extension that makes it work like Spacemacs (long story). This is great. I've used Vim bindings for a long time now and this was the push to get me fully onboard with using Vim as my actual editor. Harpoon is *chef's kiss* beautiful. Thanks for taking the time to make this!
Ameutuer programmer and now comp sci major here, used vscode and the arduino ide for around a year before discovering your videos and eventually being convinced to move to vim, and now neovim. Just wanted to say thanks for all the useful information, switching to vim has been a real time-saver, and I can no longer live without the speed lol. Great stuff man.
Thank you for this great video. I have been an Emacs user for over 15years. I started reconfiguring my Emacs with LSP to work on the languages I use these days like typescript (yeah I know), python, C and html. For some reason I couldn't get it quite right, there would be small delays which annoyed the hell out of me. So I thought I'd give vim with ale a try after all I use vim occasionally when I have to edit stuff on servers. I saw this video popped up during Christmas time and I had sometime to kill so followed it and got it set up, and its on Fire. So a big thank you. I even tried astro, built my daughter a website.
I've watch videos about navigation and I have to say: I know most of them - not a the fastest typer, but still they are really cool. The thing is I still use vim plugin for vsc... Mostly because of plugins etc. The last chance in this year to back to pure nvim... 🤞
This is fantastic. After like 5 years of primarily using VSCode with Vim extensions, I think I want to make the switch. But... at the LSP part, and it looks like there have been a lot of breaking changes. Looks like I'm going to have to actually read and work my way through the docs... 😠
Great tutorial! I started using vim again after watching your stuff, I cobbled together a config with vimscript which is what I knew, but this video I have converted my setup to this modularized setup with lua and copied some sections, but made it my own with some different bindings and other plugins. This was quite comprehensive and easy to follow despite the huge amount of information.
Was just rewriting my vim config and stumbled upon this, love it! it helps that i learned so much of my vim setup from you in the past, so every plugin you mention is a slamdunk for me already.
Another thing to note, if you find some of his key mappings a little wonky, its because he's ascended as uses a non-standard keyboard layout like dvorak. Adjust to your liking!
At 10:15, if you have never installed treesitter before then the "use" line in the video won't work. You need the following to install treesitter (then source the lua file and run PackerSync), and then you can change it to be the "use" line that Prime gave. use { 'nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter', run = function() local ts_update = require('nvim-treesitter.install').update({ with_sync = true }) ts_update() end, }
I was trying to figure out `h`, `t`, `n` and `s` by looking at a QWERTY keymap, and it made no sense. Then I realized - ThePrimeagen uses dvorak! (hint - those are home row on the right hand on dvorak)...
Had to add a "require("user.packer")" to the lua/user/init.lua, otherwiese packer would not be loaded up when starting nvim. Otherwise: great video, really helped to get up to speed with neovim!
Thanks, you saved me from just going the lazyvim route. Been using vimplugins for a hot min and really wanna run a base set up before dabbling with something pre configured.
Unfortunately the LSP Setup at 18:06 is already out of date. This video is showing their 1.x version and as of now they are on 3.x and while they have a guide for the new version I was only able to fix the Mason stuff as I'm just a noob.
Love the pace of your vid. Usually video tutorials are just so slow and make me skipping through. And I finally said good bye to my good old init.vim. Thanks for that!
I had used vim in college for a while, but nothing too serious. I had dabbled in the configs of registers and remaps, looked up into fuzzy file search and buffers and such but i ended up never really using vim for anything serious. Its a extremely customizable ecosystem, but that creates a huge barrier of entry (its not just clicking on pretty buttons like vscode lol) I cannot stress enough how much valuable tutorials like these are, showing step by step, explaining each config line, showing examples and how to install/configure new plugins I've lost count of how many things i learned, either directly by something you said or indirectly by looking at your keystrokes, or reading the documentation for plugins Its much easier now to get back to vim and actually be productive in it, its literally blazingly fast
To those who got stuck at 1:10 with %-sign/percent-sign not working - you need to start with "vim ." to enter netrw mode from the command line, not "vim".
Hey Prime, you can drop the greatest remap ever (p), the functionality is built-in since Vim 8.2.4881 / NVIM v0.8.0 (g7978660e). Just paste with P in visual mode to not replace the unnamed register (see :help v_P).
I get into nvim recently, I am so happy about your video and I like your energy. Do you have any thoughts of starting with lunarvim project default as nvim config? I found it less scary / more practical rather than learning to do a config from scratch.
Keep the energy bro. Thanks for your content, amazed how you keep positive vibe over so long and intense sessions - I get into more reflexive state really fast
There aren't just enough likes for me to add to this video. I've watched it SO MANY times in the pasts few months and I just keep learning and improving my Neovim experience withi it. Thanks so much!
Thanks, super helpful! If I throw a few more keybinds in for building and running my project, it'll be nearly feature-complete with the subset of CLion features that I regularly use.
Dude this was awesome for me as a Vim user for 10 years. I've been meaning to cleanup my Vim setup for such a long time but honestly ... I've forgot what half the things in the Vim setup ACTUALLY do. I'm removing a bunch of stuff and either replacing it with some of the simple remaps here or getting rid of it altogether. Also getting rid of CoC and putting LSP Zero in. I had such a headache with all the configuring I needed to do with that. Thanks for the vid!
This is SUCH A GOOD VIDEO thank you. I have an old Vim-script setup that worked really well but needed an overhaul, didn't utilize LSP or Telescope or anything. And this video got me 50% of the way in no time.
Excelent video, makes it very clear and fast. That leaves no time for you to think about if you're doing really the right thing configuring this damn thing and in the and, when you less expect, you have a nvim configured. Congrats my boy
This video is just the best! I must have watched it like 5 times in the last six months... I have to watch it at x0.5 speed tho 🤣 great job as always!!
