My life + espresso. When my life gets too slow: espresso. When I drink espresso and 10 minutes go by: slow life. I clearly need more espresso. Then suddenly, everything seems ok. I my life is at a good speed, I don’t seem to need espresso… but now I want espresso! Goddammit.
I do most of my work on my laptop, which has a really shitty touchpad (a system76 pangolin 12). Using the touchpad to scroll, move around, etc. feels clunky and frustrating. Using my wonderful keyboard feels amazing, quick, and responsive. Honestly, that’s the main reason I use neovim; touchpads, especially bad ones, just feel clumsy, imprecise, and inefficient.
Now I’ve gotten used to typing
nvand, in under 30 milliseconds, getting a full-featured, LSP-supporting text editor. Other editors trigger my impatience now 😂. The features are secondary to me, they’re not what makes nvim great.If there were two things that are a game changer for me though, they would probably be
<C-o>(mixed with plugins like trailblazer) and the incredible ease of use that vim macros offer.