Neovim or Vim?

Cromulent

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I need to learn to use Vim because it'll be much easier to work on remote files using SSH than using Nano, which I use now. I've been doing some searching, and Neovim looks good. I also like that you make plugins using Lua, a language I find easier than VimScript. I also hear that Neovim pushes changes faster than Vim.

Which would you use and why?
 
I use vim quite a lot (or vi if vim isn't installed) not ventured elsewhere but typically the software I use already has vim installed, so would be a bit of a faff having to install another package.
 
I tend to use vi/vim just because of the nature of the systems I ssh on to - we don't want to be installing additional packages into them to maintain/have issues with. Vi or Vim come default.
 
Semple said:
I use vim quite a lot (or vi if vim isn't installed) not ventured elsewhere but typically the software I use already has vim installed, so would be a bit of a faff having to install another package.
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Throrik said:
I tend to use vi/vim just because of the nature of the systems I ssh on to - we don't want to be installing additional packages into them to maintain/have issues with. Vi or Vim come default.
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Thank you both. What I wanted to use Neovim for was as an IDE and something I do quick edits with when SSH into a machine. From what I can gather, even if I used Neovim on my Mac, it'll be similar enough to Vim on Linux / BSD so as not to cause too many problems.

I think they need different config files, so I'll have to put two configs on a new server rather than one.
 
If you just need to learn the vim commands then there are plugins for Vscode, etc. Neovim is cool but it can be a lot of setup, whereas some like Vscode is a quick install and then download your plugins.
 
Mesai said:
If you just need to learn the vim commands then there are plugins for Vscode, etc. Neovim is cool but it can be a lot of setup, whereas some like Vscode is a quick install and then download your plugins.
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I think I'll give Neovim a try and see how I get on. At worst, it is a bit of wasted time.
 
Cromulent said:
Thank you both. What I wanted to use Neovim for was as an IDE and something I do quick edits with when SSH into a machine. From what I can gather, even if I used Neovim on my Mac, it'll be similar enough to Vim on Linux / BSD so as not to cause too many problems.

I think they need different config files, so I'll have to put two configs on a new server rather than one.
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You can use Neovim as an IDE if you want yeah, it's pretty popular - my development needs I guess don't necessarily need a fully fledged IDE, I write mostly bash, terraform, ansible, powershell and a smattering a python - but I use vim for lots of reading/searching/querying log files, services etc.
 
Throrik said:
You can use Neovim as an IDE if you want yeah, it's pretty popular - my development needs I guess don't necessarily need a fully fledged IDE, I write mostly bash, terraform, ansible, powershell and a smattering a python - but I use vim for lots of reading/searching/querying log files, services etc.
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I have a couple of projects with hundreds of source code files, and I'm hoping Vim or Neovim make it easy to browse large projects.
 
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