Neovim
Neovim is a modal text editor forked off of Vim in 2014. Being modal means that you do not simply type text on screen, but the behavior and functionality of the editor changes entirely depending on the mode.
The most common and most used mode, the "normal mode" for Neovim is to essentially turn your keyboard in to hotkeys with which you can navigate and manipulate text. Several modes exist, but two other most common ones are "insert mode" where you type in text directly as if it was a traditional text editor, and "visual mode" where you select text.
Neovim seeks to enable further community participation in its development and to make drastic changes without turning it in to something that is "not Vim". Neovim also seeks to enable embedding the editor within GUI applications.
The Neovim logo by Jason Long is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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This is a pretty cool project of yours! If you're really into writing and using LISP, I'd recommend trying out GNU Emacs (assuming you haven't given it a shot already).
I switched from NeoViM myself, and I found that maintaining an
init.elfile to be much easier than aninit.luaor aninit.vim.Of course, I don't dislike NeoViM. I think it's a great editor with a bright future. I moved because I wanted a GUI editor, as well as a stable release cycle. I stuck around because I found ELisp both easy to read and write.
This is certainly the closest I've ever been to trying emacs... but for better or for worse I probably won't get around to even trying it until a decade from now and then just like LISP I'll probably think damn I should have tried this a decade ago.
I've got a few fennel projects to get to a good place and then I'm really excited to look into Lisp Flavored Erlang!
If you're learning LISP languages, I'd recommend taking a look at these dialects:
It's great to see someone else learn LISP languages! I've found them to be both readable and useful, while most languages struggle to balance the two.