ten years ago, in a fit of optimism, i opened vim and typed :q. vim, in its infinite patience, ignored me. i have not closed it since.
this is a retrospective. it is also, in places, a confession.
what i actually use
- no IDE features that aren't a one-liner.
- telescope for fuzzy-find, because i'm not a monster.
- lsp via mason — sparingly, because completion popups are the devil.
- a colorscheme i wrote in 2017 and refuse to touch.
- hjkl, only because qwerty made me.
"neovim is what you get when a community of people who love vim agree to ruin it slightly."
the day i became a plugin maintainer (accidentally)
i wrote a 60-line plugin to renumber footnotes in markdown. it now has 4,200 stars, a discord, two contributors who actively dislike me, and a roadmap. i did not consent to any of this. and yet — here we are. version 3.1 ships next week.
ten more years. probably the same setup. definitely still don't know how to quit.