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I just like having a neovim terminal open with claude code open

helsinki 1y ago
I think that’s a decent approach, but doesn’t the performance of a Neovim terminal bother you? It simply does not feel as good as a native terminal pane. It’s not as bad as VSCode’s terminal pane, but it still leaves something to be desired.
- dosethree 1y ago
  Just use tmux and split windows
- softwaredoug 1y ago
  I have never noticed any problem... The main annoyance is dealing with newlines
- OrderlyTiamat 1y ago
  I've noticed no problems, and I'm usually pretty controlling about performance- what am I missing?
- rnmp 1y ago
  I use Neovim + kitty (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/ https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/) and the performance is phenomenal. Everything is instant. kitty also has a built-in robust layout system so I ended up ditching tmux entirely for it.
apwell23 1y ago
they how do you say. look at these lines of code to claude?
- oblio 1y ago
  Can you prompt it? A bit manual, but hey. I wonder if you can script visual selection in Neovim to output full file path plus line number range, for direct copy paste.
  - apwell23 1y ago
    you can start neomvim with a network ( neovim --listen) socket and tell calude " look at neovim at this network socket and get current selection" This actually works :)
- softwaredoug 1y ago
  I just say "look in file.py at lines 20-30" or "See in function FooBar where we foo the bar".
  - apwell23 1y ago
    i guess thats a bit of typing and then claude has to do a grep/find to figure out what you are talking about.
adregan 1y ago
Out of curiosity, do you have a good flow for having a file buffer automatically update in response to claude's changes? I'm perpetually needing to remember to `:e!<CR>` to read the updated file.
- gertlex 1y ago
  To offer an anecdote: I've been used to doing `:e!` with vim. I recently finally had a reason to move to nvim... and it's been auto-updating my buffers when I do stuff in `aider`. Very much a, "oh, ok that's nice!" and I haven't dug further.
  - adregan 1y ago
    I’m actually a neovim user already! This makes me worry that my config has something to prevent this behavior (but I hope not, I hate messing with my config)
    - rustyminnow 1y ago
      :help 'autoread' (I think)
- yoyohello13 1y ago
  There is a vim setting to automatically load changes from disk. I can’t remember name of the option right now, but it should be an easy lookup.

I think that’s a decent approach, but doesn’t the performance of a Neovim terminal bother you? It simply does not feel as good as a native terminal pane. It’s not as bad as VSCode’s terminal pane, but it still leaves something to be desired.

dosethree 1y ago
Just use tmux and split windows
softwaredoug 1y ago
I have never noticed any problem... The main annoyance is dealing with newlines
OrderlyTiamat 1y ago
I've noticed no problems, and I'm usually pretty controlling about performance- what am I missing?
rnmp 1y ago
I use Neovim + kitty (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/ https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/) and the performance is phenomenal. Everything is instant. kitty also has a built-in robust layout system so I ended up ditching tmux entirely for it.

apwell23 1y ago

they how do you say. look at these lines of code to claude?

oblio 1y ago
Can you prompt it? A bit manual, but hey. I wonder if you can script visual selection in Neovim to output full file path plus line number range, for direct copy paste.
- apwell23 1y ago
  you can start neomvim with a network ( neovim --listen) socket and tell calude " look at neovim at this network socket and get current selection" This actually works :)
softwaredoug 1y ago
I just say "look in file.py at lines 20-30" or "See in function FooBar where we foo the bar".
- apwell23 1y ago
  i guess thats a bit of typing and then claude has to do a grep/find to figure out what you are talking about.

adregan 1y ago

Out of curiosity, do you have a good flow for having a file buffer automatically update in response to claude's changes? I'm perpetually needing to remember to `:e!<CR>` to read the updated file.

gertlex 1y ago
To offer an anecdote: I've been used to doing `:e!` with vim. I recently finally had a reason to move to nvim... and it's been auto-updating my buffers when I do stuff in `aider`. Very much a, "oh, ok that's nice!" and I haven't dug further.
- adregan 1y ago
  I’m actually a neovim user already! This makes me worry that my config has something to prevent this behavior (but I hope not, I hate messing with my config)
  - rustyminnow 1y ago
    :help 'autoread' (I think)
yoyohello13 1y ago
There is a vim setting to automatically load changes from disk. I can’t remember name of the option right now, but it should be an easy lookup.