My question was more about “neovim in tmux” rather than neovim in its own terminal (and as much tmux as you want besides). What is the benefit of that ? Except for having nvim in a split tile, which is obviously cool, but that is where the mouse mode is limited: if you scroll nvim it will scroll tmux, and you will see the terminal “above” nvim, it does not scroll the buffer.
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sodapopcan
Thanks for all the answers and thanks to those who have posted their vimrcs—sure enough I learned some new things. I somehow never knew about undofile which could have saved me years of annoyance. Also, I’m extra interested in vimwiki now. I was aware of it but haven’t thought about it in a long time and it could be really useful now.
It’s also really interesting to hear what people like about Vim over VS Code. I’ve never actually tried VS Code though was thinking of giving it a shot as it seems to have better support for Phoenix-type stuff. For example, a huge annoyance I’ve had is working with inline templates in LiveView—the indentation just plain doesn’t work. I’ve actually have a PR draft in elixir.vim to fix this but I’m surprised to not hear more people complain about it. Are there any workarounds people are using that I’m unaware of? I do use ElixirLS but feel I need to dive a little deeper as I don’t feel I’m using it properly.
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sodapopcan
Do you have mouse-mode set in vim as well? I don’t know about nvim, but I have mouse-mode enabled for both vim and tmux and have no issues with scrolling with the mouse. Well, once in a while I do get it in a weird state where it will scroll tmux instead of vim, but it doesn’t happen often. I don’t use the mouse to scroll too often, though—usually just when I’m reading code and having a drink or eating at the same time.
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sodapopcan
sodapopcan
Nice. I might try asyncdo out. Are there any advantages over dispatch.vim? I also have written some plugins including GitHub - sodapopcan/vim-twiggy: Git branch management for Vim · GitHub which I haven’t shown a lot of love lately.
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lud
It happens each time here. Yes, if I use nvim outside of tmux I can scroll with the trackpad.
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marcin
I am using Onivim2 which can use Vscode plugins so works nice with Elixir.
Onivim is a beta software but is written in a type safe language ReasonML and in my experience is very stable.
It is also very pretty.
https://onivim.io/
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crova
It’s not always, only when I know I’ll be doing nothing but HTML and for an “extended period of time” (which it isn’t that often tbh).
Main reason is that I never bothered to setup Vim properly to work with HTML and vanilla vscode has decent UX for editing html files.
I still use Vim like navigation though, because otherwise I mess things up.
Bottom line is that I’m being lazy with this lol.
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connorlay
My development environment these days: NeoVim + tmux + Alacritty + Pop!_OS plus the following plugins (unrelated ones are omitted):
- vim-polyglot for language support
- ale for linting and formatting
- vim-test for quickly running specific tests
- coc.nvim & coc-elixir for LSP support
- fzf.vim for fuzzy finding
- fern.vim for a better netrw file navigator
- vim-fugitive for git stuff
- vim-dadbod for database stuff
I’m quite happy with this setup so far, but I would like to replace coc.nvim with something simpler. I’m waiting for the built-in NeoVim LSP to stabilize before giving it a shot. I’m also eyeing LanguageClient-neovim as another option.
I have not found myself needing an integrated debugger, but I’ve heard good things about vimspector, although it lacks official Elixir support.
Somewhat related: I recently discovered stow for managing symlinks for my dotfiles.
EDIT: I should get around to writing a blog post about this 
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sodapopcan
Bottom line is that I’m being lazy with this lol.
Ha, I know that feeling well.
I’d recommend GitHub - alvan/vim-closetag: Auto close (X)HTML tags · GitHub if you’re looking for an improved HTML editing experience.
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