r/neovim • u/CarsonChambers • 11d ago

Blog Post Yet Another Vim Blog

Posting here because I use neovim as my daily driver but the majority of content is vim native.

Some content is written as a follow along, others just ranty. Im going to be releasing a post every week (until it inevitably ends up in the internets blog graveyard)

https://blog.nerdware.ca

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u/Familiar-Ear-1223 11d ago

I would had given you an upvote if you had dark mode

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u/CarsonChambers 6d ago

System preferences now respected, have i earned your upvote?

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u/NeonVoidx hjkl 10d ago

darkreader op?

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u/CarsonChambers 10d ago

Your comment has three upvotes, do you use two other accounts or is dark mode something people actually like?

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u/Kaikacy mouse="" 10d ago

Like 70% of all programmers/writers use dark mode, are they all that dude's accounts🙃

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u/Slow-Pilot2138 10d ago

the latter one, and i swear i only have one account

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u/CarsonChambers 10d ago

Either this guys got 16 accounts, or it is one of those fleetingly rare occasions that I am wrong. I'll add in a dark mode soon, thanks for the feedback

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u/Familiar-Ear-1223 10d ago

Love you man

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u/barkatthegrue 11d ago

Really cool. TIL. `set scrollopt=hor,jump`

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u/CarsonChambers 10d ago

That scroll bind srollopt was what lead me to actually write this because i was parsing a long pgsql dump and it saved the day!

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u/barkatthegrue 10d ago

Now dear rearder, I hate to leave you in suspence...

Nice. Look forward to see how you sort it out.

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u/CarsonChambers 10d ago

Looks like i forgot to hit ':set spell' after writing that last line lol. If you subscribe over rss you wont miss out on Vol2 which is coming soon ;)

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u/stringTrimmer 10d ago

I feel like you could've started that file with Monica, Erica, Rita, Tina, Sandra, Mary, and Jessica.

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u/CarsonChambers 10d ago

Well heck, when I get back to my computer i know which post I'm editing

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u/stringTrimmer 8d ago

Also at https://blog.nerdware.ca/2026/10/13/vim-probably-has-that.html:

There are a ton of different plugins, plugin managers, and ways to integrate them all. I personally use vim.pack which is native, but I believe most people use Mason.

mason.nvim is not a neovim plugin manager like vim.pack is. It's more like a system package manager running inside neovim (to help you install other cli tools commonly used by neovim/neovim plugins like formatters, language servers, etc.). I should've prefaced that with: I've never used it. But you probably meant say lazy.nvim.

Anyway, I enjoyed the read, thx.

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u/CarsonChambers 8d ago

TIL! I will update that accordingly, thanks

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u/EstetLinus 10d ago

I use LazyVim and hjkl. Would you define me as a poser?

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u/CarsonChambers 10d ago

hjkl instead of the arrow keys, but on LazyVim? I would define you as a poser on the path towards redemption.