Yes, really. fi and esac are a joke that never found their end. No one would design a language that did that with a straight face these days.

Well, I thought that was genius when learning Bash.

Inspiration and Thanks

Github Copilot for code

Welp, interesting!

Switching from Vim was a no-brainer. I was on WSL 1, and the Alt/Meta key support was horrendous at the time. Neovim supported it perfectly.

Years later Neovim adopts Lua, I went back and forth between Emacs and Neovim for several months. Neovim stuck, because for some reason it just works. Lua is a little easier to learn and write (before I find the time to sit down and read the elisp manual properly, appreciating the lisp-ness), my Neovim setup had a satisfactory number of features whilst having minimum moving parts. It became easier to maintain. As my current daily driver I don’t need to touch my config for months and it will work.

I also tried helix several weeks ago, it’s great, but it doesn’t support custom snippets and templates, among other things that were essential to the development for some of my projects.

I am not convinced Neovim is best for me, I miss Emacs from time to time. It’s just what I’ve sticked with and I’m happy with it for now.

:lua with a [range] executes that range as Lua code, in any buffer.

Finally! Something similar to M-x eval-region built-in (as far as I’m aware).

My friends type up code in Google Docs to do programming homework on the phone while on the bus.