TOtotetsu·Mar 9, 2023
If you forgot like me see how to install plugins at
https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim#quickstart
In Show HN: CodeGPT.nvim – ChatGPT plugin for Neovimwbthomason
packer.nvim
Lua2022–2023
wbthomason / packer.nvim
packer.nvim
A use-package inspired plugin manager for Neovim. Uses native packages, supports Luarocks dependencies, written in Lua, allows for expressive config
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3Mentions
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8.1KGitHub stars
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What it is
A use-package inspired plugin manager for Neovim. Uses native packages, supports Luarocks dependencies, written in Lua, allows for expressive config
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Observed mentions: 2022-10-12 04:25:39 UTC to 2023-03-09 09:22:56 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Oct 10 | 2022-10-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-10-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Oct 17 | 2022-10-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-10-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 24 | 2022-10-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-10-31 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 31 | 2022-10-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-11-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 7 | 2022-11-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-11-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 14 | 2022-11-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-11-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 21 | 2022-11-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-11-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 28 | 2022-11-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-12-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 5 | 2022-12-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-12-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 12 | 2022-12-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-12-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 19 | 2022-12-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-12-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 26 | 2022-12-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2 | 2023-01-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 9 | 2023-01-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 16 | 2023-01-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 23 | 2023-01-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 30 | 2023-01-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-02-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 6 | 2023-02-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-02-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 13 | 2023-02-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-02-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 20 | 2023-02-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-02-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 27 | 2023-02-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-03-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 6 | 2023-03-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-03-13 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesI use neovim. The plugin system has really grown.
* I use Packer for plug-in managment: https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim
* I use Mason to install LSPs, linters and formatters: https://github.com/williamboman/mason.nvim
* I use nvim-treesitter for better highlighting: https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter
In Ask HN: Can you recommend me a fast, light text editor for Windows?> To get Neovim kind of things to be anywhere near usable for modern day development work, you need to bolt a file browser, intellisense, command line section, remote editing section, container plugins, plugin installer, settings section etc etc on top of it
Why?
Neovim has multiple package managers. It has GUIs like https://github.com/neovide/neovide, it has support for LSP which can do something? Many people are comfortable with programming in an environment like that
It also has a terminal (even though if you use neovim you probably prefer to open terminals outside the IDE) and support remote editing too
Here are some links
https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim & https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug
https://neovide.dev/
https://neovim.io/doc/user/nvim_terminal_emulator.html
https://neovim.io/doc/user/remote.html
In Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua