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Best protip I heard about (n)vim customization: use git branches when you want to switch between different configurations. Eg something like: - vanilla/default

by pizza 3y ago

Best protip I heard about (n)vim customization: use git branches when you want to switch between different configurations. Eg something like: - vanilla/default - minimal - fancy depending on what you want to deal with. If I go months between using all these plugins I forget what they do and what changed and it’s just noisy distractions that invariably lead me to open my init.lua file rather than what I actually had intended to work on

qbasic_forever 3y ago
I had luck using gnu stow to switch configs easily too.
- pizza 3y ago
  Hadn’t heard of this. Thanks. I guess there are probably plenty of little GNU utilities out there that just haven’t hit their deserved mindshare yet
  - tjferrara14 3y ago
    https://kkovacs.eu/cool-but-obscure-unix-tools/ https://kkovacs.eu/cool-but-obscure-unix-tools/
pynappo 3y ago
you can also use $NVIM_APPNAME if you want a more "full" switch between configurations. especially helpful for trying/switching between distributions (i use it for switching between my own config and lazyvim). basically, it modifies the paths where neovim looks for config and data files on startup: config path: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nvim/ -> $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/$NVIM_APPNAME/ data path on Windows: $LOCALAPPDATA/nvim-data/ -> $LOCALAPPDATA/{$NVIM_APPNAME}-data/ https://neovim.io/doc/user/starting.html#%24NVIM_APPNAME https://neovim.io/doc/user/starting.html#%24NVIM_APPNAME
devnullbrain 3y ago
Why not stay in the editor and use `:source`?
cerved 3y ago
what do you mean "use Git branches"?
- worksonmine 3y ago
  Since the configuration is done in (dot)files you can version and track them with git. If you want several setups you could have them in branches and just ´git checkout X´ in your .vim or .config/nvim directory to change it and it would affect settings and plugins (as they're also just files). I don't need it but I can see the use. I do have a dotfiles repository however it's very common in Linux and Mac, don't know about Windows. If I setup a new machine or spin up a VM I just have to clone that repository to have all my configurations for everything (even addons for Firefox and Chrome). This article[1] is a good starting point if you want to try it out. [1] https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles

by pizza 3y ago

qbasic_forever 3y ago

I had luck using gnu stow to switch configs easily too.

pizza 3y ago
Hadn’t heard of this. Thanks. I guess there are probably plenty of little GNU utilities out there that just haven’t hit their deserved mindshare yet
- tjferrara14 3y ago
  https://kkovacs.eu/cool-but-obscure-unix-tools/ https://kkovacs.eu/cool-but-obscure-unix-tools/

pynappo 3y ago

you can also use $NVIM_APPNAME if you want a more "full" switch between configurations. especially helpful for trying/switching between distributions (i use it for switching between my own config and lazyvim). basically, it modifies the paths where neovim looks for config and data files on startup: config path: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nvim/ -> $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/$NVIM_APPNAME/ data path on Windows: $LOCALAPPDATA/nvim-data/ -> $LOCALAPPDATA/{$NVIM_APPNAME}-data/ https://neovim.io/doc/user/starting.html#%24NVIM_APPNAME https://neovim.io/doc/user/starting.html#%24NVIM_APPNAME

devnullbrain 3y ago

Why not stay in the editor and use `:source`?

cerved 3y ago

what do you mean "use Git branches"?

worksonmine 3y ago
Since the configuration is done in (dot)files you can version and track them with git. If you want several setups you could have them in branches and just ´git checkout X´ in your .vim or .config/nvim directory to change it and it would affect settings and plugins (as they're also just files). I don't need it but I can see the use. I do have a dotfiles repository however it's very common in Linux and Mac, don't know about Windows. If I setup a new machine or spin up a VM I just have to clone that repository to have all my configurations for everything (even addons for Firefox and Chrome). This article[1] is a good starting point if you want to try it out. [1] https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles