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My Two Biggest Gripes With Neovim
Let me state upfront that Neovim is my editor of choice. I made the switch from VSCode about 6–8 months ago and now Neovim really is my goto editor (I’m not just saying that, I actually use it). However, it does come with some issues and that is what I want to share in this article.
I am by no means an expert in Neovim and I am sure that the two items that I list can be resolved or worked around with a little more knowledge or knowhow. I just haven’t had the time of the energy to go and find these answers so if you know any better ways please feel free to share.
Find And Replace All
I find that when I am working on code I invariably want to find and replace certain words quite a bit. This could be due to renaming a variable, swapping out a function with a more appropriate one or something else. The point is, it’s something I find myself doing a few times everyday.
In VSCode there were various ways to do this and the most common for me was to do the old cmd + shift + f which would bring up find and replace across the whole code base you have currently open in VSCode. There would be an input field for you to type the word you are looking for and then an input field below for you to type the word you want to replace it with. In the UI of VSCode it would show you all the files where this word existed…
