Neovim

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Neovim is a modal text editor forked off of Vim in 2014. Being modal means that you do not simply type text on screen, but the behavior and functionality of the editor changes entirely depending on the mode.

The most common and most used mode, the "normal mode" for Neovim is to essentially turn your keyboard in to hotkeys with which you can navigate and manipulate text. Several modes exist, but two other most common ones are "insert mode" where you type in text directly as if it was a traditional text editor, and "visual mode" where you select text.

Neovim seeks to enable further community participation in its development and to make drastic changes without turning it in to something that is "not Vim". Neovim also seeks to enable embedding the editor within GUI applications.

The Neovim logo by Jason Long is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

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submitted 2 months ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/neovim@sopuli.xyz

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51211518

Context is this issue at neovim [dot] github [dot] io: https://github.com/neovim/neovim.github.io/issues/501

The neovim website has an impressions section, under which there's an impression by DHH:

"Full-screen Neovim looks cool as hell!” — DHH

Multiple people want that quote removed.

For those who don't know, DHH (creator of the Omarchy Linux distro) is seen as a problematic individual by many in the Linux & OSS community:

https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-problem

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/

https://johan.hal.se/wrote/2025/09/26/david-please-stop-posting/

https://world.hey.com/dhh/three-sacred-cows-that-must-die-so-europe-can-live-1afb203d

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev [S] 2 points 2 months ago

neovim will most likely survive with possibly a few forks that will die out and some people might move. I already am on helix, so no need to move yet.

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