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Neovim

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Neovim is a modal text editor forked off of Vim in 2014. Being modal means that you do not simply type text on screen, but the behavior and functionality of the editor changes entirely depending on the mode.

The most common and most used mode, the "normal mode" for Neovim is to essentially turn your keyboard in to hotkeys with which you can navigate and manipulate text. Several modes exist, but two other most common ones are "insert mode" where you type in text directly as if it was a traditional text editor, and "visual mode" where you select text.

Neovim seeks to enable further community participation in its development and to make drastic changes without turning it in to something that is "not Vim". Neovim also seeks to enable embedding the editor within GUI applications.

The Neovim logo by Jason Long is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

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I am new lemmy user and I wanted to whether there are different nvim communities or same ones like,

  1. https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
  2. https://programming.dev/c/neovim
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Considering it has more (and likely more active) moderators, I'd personally strongly advocate migration over to [email protected]. The reason I made this one was because I'm even more passionate about this editor than anything I edit with it and had just grown impatient at no one prepping up a community for it. There's value in being a member of both if one instance suffers outage, but I agree posting in more than one place hurts the community. Maybe I should make a pinned post about it, asking for input.