Oh I totally agree. The Lua idioms can be confusing and the documentation ecosystem is currently in a place where if you already know Lua well it’s incredibly helpful, but bridging the gap for beginners is a challenge - one worth embracing!

It’s not a distribution.

It’s a bag of Lua files you can use to get started.

Also, it’s not for you :) Users who know enough to hold such opinions aren’t the target audience.

That's not just understandable but how could it be any other way?

Heck just Vim itself is layer upon layer of powerful functionality. Now layer in the immense potential of Neovim's Lua based plugin ecosystem and client/server architecture? 🤯

Give yourself the time to learn. Focus on just the things you need to get the task you're doing RIGHT NOW done, then focus later on things that can level up your knowledge and productivity.

I've been thinking about making Neovim tutorial videos for Youtube. If I did, what kinds of things would be useful to you?

Hi!

kickstart.nvim maintainer here, please don’t follow the advice given in the video to just dump init.lua into place.

Please follow the instructions in the README for the repo and git clone it into your $XDG_CONFIG_HOME instead.

If you just copy pasta init.lua things will break. This is a result of converting Kickstart to lazy.nvim

Also, it’s a bit frustrating. That video is out of date as it’s prior to the conversion to lazy.nvim

You should rather than just dumping init.lua in place actually git clone the repo into your ~/.config directory. There are instructions for that in the README.

I appreciate your honesty about the README!

You say it didn’t make sense, was it:

1. Too long so you felt overwhelmed and stopped?
2. Too complicated in some way? Which bit caused you to stall out?

I feel like we need to do better here, but also I’m not a writer myself so I could definitely use all the specific feedback we can get.

Please feel free to file bugs, even if it’s “I don’t understand what <$tech_phrase> means” or similar. I’ll action ever single one of them :)

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Same here. I feel like this is one of the best power moves ever for Devops/SRE/Platrform engineering types who need to actually work on real live servers and can’t always drag their entire configuration corups around with them.