I wouldn’t expect that you could go from zero experience with Neovim/Vim to more efficient than the editor you’ve been using extensively in less than a month. most of the people that responded here had been using Vim prior to switching. The one that had no prior Vim experience took half a month to get the basics down and be comparable with their prior editor (VScode).
Everything you’re after is available, but trying to learn it all at once can be overwhelming as you’ve been experiencing.
Reinstall a fresh stable version of NeoVim and if you haven’t already followed the tutorial, follow it.
Install ripgrep for full, in file, text search for the current (or specified) directory.
Install kickstart.nvim and watch the kickstart.nvim walkthrough video to learn how configuration and plugins work in Neovim. (It also includes a Fuzzy Finder [fzf] that works with ripgrep inside of NeoVim.)
Practice Vim Motions so they become second nature to you. Watch the first 5 videos of The Primeagen’s Vim Video Playlist to see the fundamental movements beyond what’s in the tutorial. You could use a VSCode extension that replicates Vim Modal Editing with Vim Keybindings to get used to the Vim Motions while you’re still using VSCode.
Get familiar with the Neovim User Documentation which han be accessed and navigated with Vim Motions by typing :help while in Normal mode in Neovim
Watch videos on multiword/mulitline editing options with Neovim (Part 1) | (Part 2)
The best chat beginner community for Neovim that I know of is in The Odin Project Discord. There’s a Neovim thread in the #odin-general channel there. (Bonus, while you’re in the Discord you can help out others trying to learn web development.)
The point is to find your own way by learning from others, not to simply mimic others. Although up front, mimicing what others are doing is a good way to get started.
When I started homeschooling my kids, I began a practice of offering to Odin just before we started lessons for the day. Odin is my god of wisdom: a teacher, a purveyor of life lessons, an orator.
I honestly felt sometimes that he would give me those bursts of inspiration that would help me to easily explain a difficult concept. While I had done some tutoring in college, I didn't have experience teaching children, so I wasn't sure I would be good at it. But Odin blessed me, because it turned out to be the best thing I have done with my life.
I still offer to him in the mornings a few days a week, and I still tutor here and there. At this point I consider myself a teacher, and I think that is a gift given to me by the Allfather.
To drink from the Well of Wisdom, the Norse god Odin had to give one of his eyes to Mimir, the Well's guardian. In some versions, this is simply a general sacrifice, but in others it's a trade - the eye gives Mimir Odin's knowledge just as the drink gives Odin Mimir's.
🎨 Emil Doepler
As both musician and writer, I’m drawn to Odin as an embodiment of the creative force. As a practitioner of Ásatrú, I can’t support companies that steal the work of human artists to generate disposable dross.
In Norse myths, the goddess Sága is often visited by Odin in her home of Sökkvabekkr ("Sunken Bank"), where they merrily share mead in golden cups. There's scholarly debate on whether Sága is another name for Frigg, Odin's wife, or whether she is a separate deity.
🎨 Lorenz Frølich #FolkloreSunday
Most Norse myths say humans were created by Odin, Vili, and Ve, but one poem says they were created by Odin, Hoenir, and Lodurr. Though Lodurr doesn't appear in other myths, Odin often travels with Hoenir and Loki. Some scholars think Lodurr and Loki are the same. #TempleThursday#FolkloreThursday
Various thoughts on too many programming languages, for no discernible reason.
I have been interested in Go since it's very initial release, but their dependence on Google is uncharming to say the least. I still haven't made up my mind on its GC, but its definitely better than most.
I used to do some ML work in .NET and if it wasn't dependent on Microsoft it would be a heavy contender for a great language, but it has far too many Microsoft-isms to ever really go much farther.
Rust is great, I enjoy beating my head against a brick wall battling with the compiler, and their safety is great, but overly complicated and feature-creep is a real problem on that entire project. I do a lot of work these days in Rust, for better (mostly) or worse (mostly-ish).
C is my bread-and-butter, as is Javascript for quick prototyping.
Elixir is great, but Erlang is unwieldy, the community is growing, but not fast enough - and I just can't get my mind to enjoy the syntax no matter how nice it is.
D is a lot of fun, but their GC can be slow at times, and the community is very small and packages are often broken and unmaintained.
Python was my first true love, but I really can't stand the whitespace, again love the language, hate the syntax.
Zig is fun, but just that. Fast, nimble, but early days, a bit confusing, could replace my insistence on C for core projects, but again, early days. I love to use them as a compiler for C, much faster than the defaults on any of the others.
Odin is one I love to keep an eye on, I wish I could get behind using it for more things. When I first took notice ~4 years ago the documentation was a bit scattered, but it looks much better now. The developer behind it is incredibly cool, could be seen as the next Dennis Ritchie imo. Runes are dope. The syntax is by far my favourite.
Julia, I love Julia, but performance last I tested was a bit of a miss, and by miss, it required a decent chunk of compute for basics, but when you gave it the system to throttle, it would be insanely productive to write in. Javascript is something that I prototype even syscalls in, but Julia is just the same but much better and more productive (and less strange) in many regards. I am really hoping this takes over in the ML/Data world and just eats Python alive. I've heard there has been major work in the perf department, but I haven't had reason to try it out lately.
Ada, memory safety before Rust! Great language, especially for critical applications, decades of baggage (or wisdom), slow moving language, insanely stable, compilers are all mostly proprietary, job market is small, but well paid, great for robotics, defense, and space industry types, but the syntax is... rough. Someone should make a meta-language on top of Ada like Zig/Nim/Odin do for C, or Elixir does for Erlang.
The others: Carbon, haven't tried; Nim, prefer when they were "Nimrod" (cue Green Day), decent but not my style; Crystal, seems cool, but not for me; Scala, great FP language, but JVM; Haskell, I'm not a mathematician, but my mathematician friends love it. I see why, but not my thing as much as I love functional languages. I'll try it again, eventually. I did not learn Haskell a great good.
I tend to jump from language to language, trying everything out, it's fun and a total timesuck.
The more I look into Hare the more I'm convinced it honestly may be the language I've been looking for.
Easy to grasp syntax, namespaces, proper strings, no header files.. It's "boring" and I find that really good.
I think I am joining the #Hare club. #Zig and #Odin of course interest me too, but the first one I'll go with will be Hare when making something new from scratch.
In the end languages are tools and I just want C but with quality of life features. Hare seems to nail that.
The Online Dakota Information Network (ODIN) is looking for a director, if anyone is interested. (Sadly, the previous director passed away.)
The job can be a remote position, although preference will be given to those in or near North Dakota. It requires a bachelor's degree and the pay is #110,000/year.
Ancient Viking treasure reveals the oldest reference to Norse god Odin
Scandinavian researchers have found the first known written mention of the Norse god Odin on an ancient gold disc that was unearthed in southern Denmark.
The gold disc, which dates to the 400s AD, was discovered n Vindelev, central Denmark, alongside a cache of Roman coins that had been reworked into jewelry.
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