
2025-06-10 14:05:52
@… Oh, you’re assuming I have tiny files. My vimrc is just 500 lines of Lua. 😜
(TBF, I did comment it well, at least. I could start splitting it up.)
@… Are you going with vim or neovim?
If the latter, I definitely recommend writing your vimrc in Lua, rather than Vimscript. You’ll find many plugins are much easier to configure that way, if nothing else.
It's not often that I deploy a quick change to my ~/.vimrc
and it so thoroughly improves my life, but setting <Shift> <Tab>
to correct the most recent misspelled word has done exactly that, right up there with when I learned about <Ctrl> p
and <Ctrl> n
in insert mode. #vim
" Correct the closest misspelled wor…
@… Best of luck!
I checked my history and it seems I started out by symlinking the neovim config file to ~/.vimrc, and aliasing `nvim` to `vim`, with no other changes.
This was 8–9 years ago, apparently, so hopefully that still works.
I did eventually rewrite my config in Lua but only after plodding along fine for several years.