Long time Emacs user Been using vim because it’s installed on every machine I touch. Watched a video someone linked at work, liked the speed and some of the features, wanted to try something different. Figured I would copy aspects of the guys vim config … how hard could it be

This went two ways:

At some point I will write this up, for the moment the gist is

don’t do this

The lua config for neovim worked well on a couple of machines, albeit with a bit of faff.

do this

On my work machine I gave AstroNvim and shot, it worked out of the box and is considerably easier to tinker with, much like spacemacs. Based on how much time I have wasted on editor config I would suggest going the Astro route.