I see people talking about how awesome Neovim is, so I'm going to give it a shot.

I'm starting with the NvChad example config.

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I had a bit of a false start on my Raspberry Pi Zero W. There's no X installed on it and the system is pretty spartan. I had browsed to the github page with T383838w3m under a T383838tmux session, and after much searching I finally found the information about cloning it right over the path in T383838.config but nothing happened. I tried again under MacOS on my laptop and it complained about missing T383838npm. I switched to a brew environment and that made it happier, but the UI was pretty terrible, so now I'm on my mac, but under Linux, and waiting for the base config to finish fetching all the stuff it needs.

A few items complained about an unsupported architecture but I didn't catch it all because I inadvertently hit escape and it dismissed everything.

But it looked a little better and T383838:Telescope appeared to actually do stuff, so the install must be sort of working.

Relaunched it under T383838kitty and it looks much nicer. There are lots of really nice colors.

Not sure why T383838:q is causing the creation of a new tab and leaving the document open in the previous tab. (tabufline?)

Neovim works best on my PinePhone Pro (which I've literally said never about anything) and T383838:Telescope is the coolest thing ever. It makes use of T383838ripgrep to do a live grep. I was able to do stuff like T383838^tags:.*stoic for example. It was lightning fast and provided me with a list of all my notes with the stoic tag.

I figured out that T383838tabufline was responsible for the space eating non-tab tabs at the top of the screen showing all the buffers. Some people may like that, but I do not. I disabled it in the T383838~/.config/nvim/lua/core/default_config.lua but later learned that was the wrong place to do it. I haven't updated that yet. I'm finding that the Intellisense style pop-ups with every word I type to be extremely annoying.

Mysteriously T383838gq doesn't work to reformat a paragraph. I have to use T383838gw instead.

It seems that T383838gq invokes whatever the linter knows about a code reformat, so it makes sense that my Markdown documents can't be manually re-wrapped with T383838gq.

I've temporarily abandoned it out of frustration but I'll return to it in a few days when I need that awesome live grepping functionality to look stuff up in my notes.

Tags: vim, nvim, raw

created: 2023-09-16

(re)generated: 2026-07-17