After setting up LunarVim, I wanted to get it to work with a NeoVim GUI

I had tried some in the past, but did not like any.

Then (I think on Discord) I came across some discussion that they got LunarVim (lvim henceforth) to work with Neoclide.

I couldn’t even get it to run 😞

I tried VimR, and it worked. i.e. I got it running. But I didn’t like their default look.

After my problems with Doom NVim, I decided to go back to LunarNVim.

I had never really left, but since both Doom and Lunar are NVim based configurations, they may overwrite the configurations (like from ~/.local/share/nvim/)

So I completely removed both Doom and Lunar and reinstalled.

I also installed ltex LSP for makrdown, which I could not do with Doom Nvim.

My other requirement was projectile equivalent. I found that there is :Telescope projects built-in with Lunar.

Just I was getting excited about Doom NVim, today I read (on their Discord server) that Alejandro aka NTBBloodbath on github has lost interest in Doom Nvim

To quote him :

I’ll slowly try to finally make Emacs my primary code editor (always failed in each attempt haha), Neovim’s ecosystem isn’t going in the direction I would like and I think it never will be so I’m very frustrated and sad with it.

Those who know me, probably already know that Doom Emacs has been my daily driver for a last years now.

and that recently neovim has piqued my interest.

I already wrote about Lunar NVim

Today I discovered Doom-Nvim

Port of (sorta) Doom emacs to neovim ecosystem.

What is not to like ? 😄

As I wrote in Lunar NVim post, I am happy with Doom emacs. But this might make me switch back to (n)vim 😄

I came across some starter kits for nvim. Earlier I tried adding individual plugins and learning all the nvim basics, but since I’m pretty happy with Doom Emacs ¹

But Lunar nvim seems stable and provides a lot of functionality out of the box. 👍

prerequisite page asks to ensure that I have cargo. I knew it a package manager(?) for rust, but didn’t know whether I could install it standalone. Turns out I can’t. brew also suggested that I install rust 😄 which I did.

I have been using nvim for a while. Initially with VS Code, and then as replacement for vi/vim from the terminal.

Since I use Doom emacs as may primary editor, I use nvim only for occasional quick edits here and there.

So I had not paid attention, but nvim the ecosystem is getting better.

TIL that there are two ways to configure nvim. Via VimScript and Lua

Need to look into each and decide which one to use.