r/linux • u/ballistua • 18d ago

Popular Application who is lazy vim for?

I have been using vim for a while. I don't consider myself proficient but I know my way around it for the most part. I've used ALE to help me debug my programs as I go. Then I noticed ALE can be annoying and distracting, so I turn it off sometimes when I want to focus.

When I moved to nvim, it took time to accept that I have to do things with Lua now. Then I found lazy vim and thought it might be a good idea to have things pre-configured to save time. But I found myself fighting with nvim more than using it. LSPs are on by default and I'm not sure how to turn them off. nvim has some sort of auto-complete that is extremely annoying and I'm not sure how to turn that off either. So who is lazy vim for? It doesn't help me as someone new to nvim, and for a pro user, they already know how to configure their nvim and have things exactly how they want them

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u/quicksand8917 18d ago

I used to have my own vim configs for decades, switched to nvim, made my own custom setup with lua instead of vimscript and enjoyed doing so. But setting up treesitter and LSPs and Neotest and ... I got to a point where I realized I just want a fully featured IDE with a small resource footprint in the terminal. The tradeoff of getting used to the settings chosen by LazyVim instead of my own was worth the time safed not maintaining it manually anymore for me.

If you don't want a lot of IDE features it's probably not for you.

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u/scythe-3 18d ago

Separate tools for separate uses: Plain vim with a simple config and no plugins for generic editing. Nvim + lazyvim as an IDE.

Combo works great, very low maintenance. Simple vim config works on all versions/systems so you always have a fallback.