Talk:Vim - Revision history

Styx6198: /* Remove reference to blog post? */ new section

2025-11-11T21:48:23Z

Remove reference to blog post?: new section

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	:According to the stackoverflow survey in 2023, vim is still more popular: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-technologies-integrated-development-environment		:According to the stackoverflow survey in 2023, vim is still more popular: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-technologies-integrated-development-environment
	:I would expect Nix users to be a bit different in adoption because they were also early adopter in other areas like Wayland/Pipewire vs X11/Pulseaudio. [[User:Mic92\|Mic92]] ([[User talk:Mic92\|talk]]) 08:18, 9 July 2024 (UTC)		:I would expect Nix users to be a bit different in adoption because they were also early adopter in other areas like Wayland/Pipewire vs X11/Pulseaudio. [[User:Mic92\|Mic92]] ([[User talk:Mic92\|talk]]) 08:18, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

			== Remove reference to blog post? ==

			There's this note:

			"Note: To get a general overview about how to set up your vim in nix, refer to [https://www.mpscholten.de/nixos/2016/04/11/setting-up-vim-on-nixos.html mpscholten's blog]"

			However, what it describes (vim_configurable) is now outdated.

			Should we just remove it? [[User:Styx6198\|Styx6198]] ([[User talk:Styx6198\|talk]]) 21:48, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Mic92: /* Popularity */ Reply

2024-07-09T08:18:20Z

Popularity: Reply

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	True, there is currently no way to say whether neovim is nowayays used more than vim, while maybe a poll in r/vim reveals more usage of neovim, this is not enough to write it here. I added the „category:Text Editor“ page to achieve what I originally wanted: Readers should see the possibilities and decide what is right for them. Adoption of new text editors is slow, according to Arch package statistics vim more often installed than vi starting from the year 2023... [[User:Klinger\|Klinger]] ([[User talk:Klinger\|talk]]) 15:18, 8 July 2024 (UTC)		True, there is currently no way to say whether neovim is nowayays used more than vim, while maybe a poll in r/vim reveals more usage of neovim, this is not enough to write it here. I added the „category:Text Editor“ page to achieve what I originally wanted: Readers should see the possibilities and decide what is right for them. Adoption of new text editors is slow, according to Arch package statistics vim more often installed than vi starting from the year 2023... [[User:Klinger\|Klinger]] ([[User talk:Klinger\|talk]]) 15:18, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

			:According to the stackoverflow survey in 2023, vim is still more popular: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-technologies-integrated-development-environment
			:I would expect Nix users to be a bit different in adoption because they were also early adopter in other areas like Wayland/Pipewire vs X11/Pulseaudio. [[User:Mic92\|Mic92]] ([[User talk:Mic92\|talk]]) 08:18, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Klinger: /* Popularity */ new section

2024-07-08T15:18:18Z

Popularity: new section

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	Should this page tell users to just check default.nix, or maybe they should [https://search.nixos.org/packages/?query=neoformat search nix packages] or use "nix-env -qaP .neoformat." and use whatever is after "nixos.vimPlugins."?		Should this page tell users to just check default.nix, or maybe they should [https://search.nixos.org/packages/?query=neoformat search nix packages] or use "nix-env -qaP .neoformat." and use whatever is after "nixos.vimPlugins."?

			== Popularity ==

			True, there is currently no way to say whether neovim is nowayays used more than vim, while maybe a poll in r/vim reveals more usage of neovim, this is not enough to write it here. I added the „category:Text Editor“ page to achieve what I originally wanted: Readers should see the possibilities and decide what is right for them. Adoption of new text editors is slow, according to Arch package statistics vim more often installed than vi starting from the year 2023... [[User:Klinger\|Klinger]] ([[User talk:Klinger\|talk]]) 15:18, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

imported>Garbas at 21:40, 24 September 2020

2020-09-24T21:40:31Z

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	But that didn't work, because vam didn't accept "github:sbdchd/neoformat" as a name. It took some trial and error to find that I instead needed to use "neoformat", which is the name as specified in [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/default.nix default.nix].		But that didn't work, because vam didn't accept "github:sbdchd/neoformat" as a name. It took some trial and error to find that I instead needed to use "neoformat", which is the name as specified in [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/default.nix default.nix].

	Should this page tell users to just check default.nix, or maybe they should [https://nixos.org/~~nixos~~/~~packages.html#~~neoformat search nix packages] or use "nix-env -qaP .neoformat." and use whatever is after "nixos.vimPlugins."?		Should this page tell users to just check default.nix, or maybe they should [https://search.nixos.org/packages/?query=neoformat search nix packages] or use "nix-env -qaP .neoformat." and use whatever is after "nixos.vimPlugins."?

imported>Krey: Krey moved page Talk:Vim plugins to Talk:Vim: I think simply "Vim" is a better name for this page

2018-04-13T16:49:26Z

Krey moved page Talk:Vim plugins to Talk:Vim: I think simply "Vim" is a better name for this page

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imported>Ariutta at 22:15, 21 December 2017

2017-12-21T22:15:38Z

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	But that didn't work, because vam didn't accept "github:sbdchd/neoformat" as a name. It took some trial and error to find that I ~~actually~~ needed to ~~instead~~ use "neoformat", which is the name as specified in [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/default.nix default.nix].		But that didn't work, because vam didn't accept "github:sbdchd/neoformat" as a name. It took some trial and error to find that I instead needed to use "neoformat", which is the name as specified in [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/default.nix default.nix].

	Should this page tell users to just check default.nix, or maybe they should [https://nixos.org/nixos/packages.html#neoformat search nix packages] and use whatever is after "nixos.vimPlugins."?		Should this page tell users to just check default.nix, or maybe they should [https://nixos.org/nixos/packages.html#neoformat search nix packages] or use "nix-env -qaP .neoformat." and use whatever is after "nixos.vimPlugins."?

imported>Ariutta: finding plugin names

2017-12-21T22:13:39Z

finding plugin names

New page

== Plugin Names ==
It'd be great to make it easier for users to find the name of the plugin they want. When I just now tried doing this, I initially thought I could use the "names" listed in [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/vim-plugin-names vim-plugin-names], so I tried this:

vimrcConfig.vam.pluginDictionaries = [
{ names = [
# Here you can place all your vim plugins
# They are installed managed by `vam` (a vim plugin manager)
"github:sbdchd/neoformat"
]; }
];

But that didn't work, because vam didn't accept "github:sbdchd/neoformat" as a name. It took some trial and error to find that I actually needed to instead use "neoformat", which is the name as specified in [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/default.nix default.nix].

Should this page tell users to just check default.nix, or maybe they should [https://nixos.org/nixos/packages.html#neoformat search nix packages] and use whatever is after "nixos.vimPlugins."?