I just had a look into LunarVim and it seems nice.
I can operate vi, but all the IDE-stuff like exploring files, switching buffers, git or even installing plugins I have a hard time with. Lunar kind of takes you by the hand. After pressing <leader> (space by default) it just tells you what you can do now.
Sebb
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Hallski
Ended up switching back to Emacs for both Elixir and React. Continued with Doom as it is well setup with evil (vim) keybindings for most things out of the box.
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zeroexcuses
What I have tried:
IntelliJ + Elixir plugin
Very impressive for volunteer project. Rough / incomplete compared to IntelliJ/Kotlin, IntelliJ/Scala, IntelliJ/Rust, or IntelliJ/Go experiences.
VSCode + Elixir_LS
Seems more complete than InteliJ + Elixir plugin, due to the power of Elixir_LS; but missing lots of the IntelliJ nice features, like refactoring.
Also, Electron somehow manages to make IntelliJ feel smooth/fast.
Neovim + lua + Elixir_LS
Missing lots of IDE features. Not fan of NERDTree (can’t get moues to work). Browsing files a pain. Searching a pain …
What I really want: NeoVim + Elixir_LS + scriptin via Elixir (instead of Lua/VimScript).
How hard can this be? Is anyone working on this? Can we kickstart this ?
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Sebb
zeroexcuses
‘Refactor’ might mean different things to you and me. To me, it primarily means: I can rename a struct / field, and all refs to it gets renamed. This works nicely in IntelliJ due to some ref-tracking system they have. I have not gotten anything that matches it in VSCode / NeoVim yet.
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Sebb
That’s cool, did’t know that was possible.
Safe rename is nice and the most important refactoring task, most of the other stuff intellij-refactoring can do is OO-specific. What would also be useful is “Change Signature”. Is that also possible with Elixir?
The Change Signature refactoring combines several different modifications that can be applied to a function signature. You can use this refactoring to:
- change the function name
- add, remove, and reorder parameters
- assign default values to the parameters
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zeroexcuses
For renaming, see GitHub - KronicDeth/intellij-elixir: Elixir plugin for JetBrain's IntelliJ Platform (including Rubymine) · GitHub
I use it all the time in Scala/Rust; I think it also works in Elixir, but it has been a long time since I last used IntelliJ/Elixir.
Change signature / “add, remove, and refactor parameters”: can neither confirm nor deny, never used anything like this. My general strategy is: change the function definition, follow the compiler errors, but that only works on statically typed languages.
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dimitarvp
Is it? 
I was under the impression that nvim-telescope helps a lot? It integrates with both fzf and ripgrep and the few times I used LunarVim (which is basically an opinionated bunch of plugins on top of NeoVim), I found it very easy to both (a) find files by fragments of a name and (b) by their contents.
I dislike file trees as well btw. I much prefer fuzzy-finding files by name or contents.
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zeroexcuses
That’s true. I am definitely not a NeoVim expert, and when I said “NeoVim + lua + Elixir_LS” I literally meant NeoVim + lua + Elixir_LS, and not any of the plugins one can add to make NeoVim more ide-like.
It is entirely possible one can me NeoVim more IDE-like, I never put in the effort.
That said, IDE features work out of the box in IntelliJ. 
With Vim/Emacs 3rd party extensions, I always end up running into some glitch with some packages interacting badly.
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zeroexcuses
I feel like this is actually something commercial products (like IntelliJ) wins on. Somewhere, there is a project manager that gets the two team leads together and says:
feature A and feature B interacts badly in the following situation, fix it
and then it gets fixed.
Whereas in volunteer plugins, there are plugins that individually work great, but when meshed together for an IDE, have weird interactions, and there’s no authority figure to force the plugins to interact nicely.
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