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Using Vim is Amazing
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this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2025
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It's not exactly like vim, and there are plenty of vim plugins that don't work with it (anything vim8 onward). There has never been a 1-to-1 correspondence, the gulf widens as both develop different features with different philosophies.
The most egregious offense on Neovim's part that I can't get past is the removal of access to the shell in which you run vim (via
:!,:w !, etc.). Vim is so much more capable of being closely intertwined with the shell, whereas neovim requires everything to be done through terminal buffers (speaking of which, vim's terminal buffers are a lot better than Neovim's).Also, Lua is really overrated and worse for vim scripting than vim9script (which is both more native to vim and faster).