I do. Here is my config: GitHub - alexandremcosta/dotvim: vim configuration folder · GitHub
The reason I never tried nvim is because when it was launched I was already deep in vim, and there was nothing I missed from vim. I love lua though, it was written by a former teacher and the guy is cool…I might give it a try just because of lua.
I will try the fixes later. Thanks a lot for the work.
Happy Vim user. Have thought about changing to Neovim or Helix a few times but I’ve never been convinced the payoff for the time investment to relearn and reimplement workflows would be worth it for me.
I love Roberto’s talks—very cool he was your teacher! I’ve never met him myself but he has this super personal and unassuming vibe and yet his clarity of thought behind Lua’s design is so on point. Hearing him talk about it made me see the language in a whole new light.
For me I already know vimscript very well so Lua itself isn’t enough to jump ship. I generally like DSLs so there is no interoping with vimscript needed if you’re already using it. Vim9script also solves a lot of the speed issues (when they matter). And of course there are still more reasons I don’t switch. The only reason I tried recently was that it seems the bulk of the Elixir community uses nvim, but I’ve decided to stay put and try and fix what’s bugging me.
Comments in this thread may also be worth a look : Which code editor or IDE do you use? (Poll) (2022 Edition) 
If anyone’s on a Mac you might want to check out MacVim, it can look quite nice with some tweaks (scroll to bottom of this blog post for details, and this old post might also be of interest).
As mentioned my biggest problem has been embedded HEEx highlighting which I’ve mostly gotten fixed pending merge! Do you have another solution to that or just live with it or use nvim? There are also weird indentation things as well that drive me a little nuts but have been livable since I (usually) always format on commit. I’d like to fix them, though.
I’d also love to see a new phoenix.vim that has extensions to projectionist like rails.vim does. I really miss context-aware :R to jump from controller action to template especially now that I’m working on some non-LiveViews a bit more often.
None exists that I know of, but I also an unaware of a lot. It would certainly be nice
to have a such a thing. One problem I have with elixir.vim is that it contains a bit too much that reaches outside of what a vim language file should. For example, it has integration with dadbod and technically it shouldn’t even be aware of Surface. While these things are useful to a lot of people, they aren’t useful for everyone using Elixir and would like do better in something like what you’re describing.
My contrarian theory is that at this point it seems that anyone who wants an out-of-the-box Vim experience just goes with nvim. There is such an Elixir plugin there in elixirtools.nvim. Perhaps the elixir.vim repo could just host a good wiki on common configurations for Elixir?
I haven’t given this a ton of thought or anything. An elixir-tools.vim would certainly not be a bad thing.
Ha, hey Andy! Oddly enough I was just looking at what it would take to extend this.
I certainly don’t discount this, but Lua doesn’t shield you from much of the quirkiness of scripting Vim. You still need to make plenty of vim.api/vim.cmd/etc calls, etc and in the end you are still learning the non-transferable skill of scripting one specific editor. I was totally happy to learn a language tailor-made for that purpose. It’s kind of like how JavaScript is a super powerful DOM manipulation DSL, but no one in their right mind would want it on the server 
Don’t get me wrong, I would never call VimL a “good” language, but I don’t get fussed about its oddness, and I like that you’re literally programming in Vim commands.
Now, having done a bunch of work on syntax highlighting and indentation would I prefer treesitter? Yes, yes I probably would.
Haha vim-textobjects-elixir is old school! I hope you find it helpful.
These days I’m using nvim-treesitter-textobjects.
Vim or Neovim, VimL or Lua, it’s all good & if you take over elixir.vim I’ll study your work and see what I can learn. 