Well, I was using nvim, until I had to start working on some legacy servers at work, which only have an old version of vim
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I copy over the nvim.appimage places where I need to do real editing on remote machines
There had been posts here, but we might be getting hit with this issue: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/602126
I use a vim fork that adds clipboard functionality. That is all.
I've been a vim user for years. What's the benefit of using Neovim?
Async, so a few things don't block. If you have a plugging manager that updates, you can work while it does its thing. Clipboard is set up by default. The big thing was the code itself was refractored so more than just Bram can work on it.
I use vim daily for my software engineering job. I love its versatility, availability, and keyboard focus. But I'm a bit stuck as far as learning new commands, I probably should push through some new vim learnings to streamline stuff I do regularly.
The way I got into using more advanced stuff was https://archive.org/details/viimprovedvim0000oual But other good things are https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=develop.example.beta1139.vimmaster and just reading the docs.
Stack overflow has people ask how do I X with vim, and pretty consistently you'll discover some new way to do things.
Basically, if you find yourself doing something often, expect that someone else did in the post and made a better way in vim.
Here is a good one to start with. https://medium.com/usevim/vim-101-virtual-editing-661c99c05847
bouncing around the few thousand nodes split between prem and in a cloud I'm stuck with the standard vim that ships with rhel