You Don't Need Plugins: A NeoVim Config for Minimalists
NeoVim is amazing — until it breaks.
With each additional plugin, the incremental benefit to productivity and usability declines. These diminishing returns inspired me to create a minimal, pluginless NeoVim config for those times when that is all you need. This tutorial is applicable to both those getting started with NeoVim as well as those who just want a reliable minimal config.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction & Why Minimal NeoVim
02:50 - Installing NeoVim
04:55 - Theme & Basic Settings
11:18 - Shortcuts
14:50 - File Explorer & Find
18:14 - Terminal
20:55 - Custom Statusline
22:50 - Tabs & Buffers in NeoVim
26:10 - :checkhealth & Language Server Protocol (LSP) support
27:20 - When to use plugins.
Link to the config here: https://github.com/radleylewis/nvim-l...
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