Why doesn't the writer just move on and go back to Vim?
I've seen a few things about neovim over the years, but nothing that made me want to switch. I love the look of the prompt for example, but it's just extra fuss that doesn't actually do anything, and doesn't at all match what I see when I log into a router.
Vim is also the default in Raspberry Pi OS, which I use a lot, so that makes me happy. I even install it on my desktops to keep everything similar. Debian in the cases where I can't, because they're still remarkably similar, even with all the differences needed to make the Pi hum.
The select-editor script is on your side. Depending on your distro, it symlinks 'vi' to whichever version of vi you want to use.
Well, I think what you're looking for is a terminal based IDE. I say "terminal based" specifically because while I know that fully fledged product suites such as JetBrains exist, I haven't actually seen similar software that mainly targets the terminal. An out of the box experience that provides everything you need specifically to develop software and is adjusted to current trends (in terms of support).
I recently tried Zed and while interesting, I don't really see, at least from the way I used it, why it couldn't just live in the terminal.
The neovim roadmap at https://neovim.io/roadmap/ really looks good. Most of those pain points will be addressed in 0.11/0.12. A standardized plugin-manager and standardized LSP "config concept" will reduce boilerplate/eye-glazing configuration by quite a bit. The remoting support+remote plugins will allow more convenient remote editing.
Though admittedly VIM competition is hard esp with editors like Zed improving their VIM support even more in 2025: https://zed.dev/blog/vim-2025
Why doesn't the writer just move on and go back to Vim?
I've seen a few things about neovim over the years, but nothing that made me want to switch. I love the look of the prompt for example, but it's just extra fuss that doesn't actually do anything, and doesn't at all match what I see when I log into a router.
Vim is also the default in Raspberry Pi OS, which I use a lot, so that makes me happy. I even install it on my desktops to keep everything similar. Debian in the cases where I can't, because they're still remarkably similar, even with all the differences needed to make the Pi hum.
The select-editor script is on your side. Depending on your distro, it symlinks 'vi' to whichever version of vi you want to use.
vi is also pre-installed on kindles.
Yes you can ssh into your kindle paper-white.
Well, I think what you're looking for is a terminal based IDE. I say "terminal based" specifically because while I know that fully fledged product suites such as JetBrains exist, I haven't actually seen similar software that mainly targets the terminal. An out of the box experience that provides everything you need specifically to develop software and is adjusted to current trends (in terms of support).
I recently tried Zed and while interesting, I don't really see, at least from the way I used it, why it couldn't just live in the terminal.
The neovim roadmap at https://neovim.io/roadmap/ really looks good. Most of those pain points will be addressed in 0.11/0.12. A standardized plugin-manager and standardized LSP "config concept" will reduce boilerplate/eye-glazing configuration by quite a bit. The remoting support+remote plugins will allow more convenient remote editing.
Though admittedly VIM competition is hard esp with editors like Zed improving their VIM support even more in 2025: https://zed.dev/blog/vim-2025