More neovim proselytizing: The embedded terminal emulator is like having an entire operating system inside of vim. Open a terminal, launch neovim, and then never leave the terminal again! Best of all, the terminal is just another buffer so you can plonk your way back to it in the middle of editing in other buffers. Combine this with nerdtree for navigating filesystems and neovim obviates the need for a file manager/explorer application.

And, really, it feels like I’m just scratching the surface so far. There’s the depth of literally decades of developing plugins to fall back on. Moving these plugins into asynchronous sandboxes removes any fetters relating to UI performance. Not to mention, neovim supports writing plugins in just about any language.

The book on emacs is it is an operating system inside a text editor. The book on vim is that it is a lightweight text editor and you have an operating system for a reason. With neovim it’s both.

Finally, just because I’m not fanboy enough here in this post yet, KDE’s linux distribution neon absolutely rocks. It couples the Ubuntu LTS release with a rolling KDE update repository. So the OS is solid while the GUI syntactic candy is utterly fresh and delicious. It’s especially nice since KDE development has been rapid with the release of KDE 5/Plasma. There is a lot happening here and the Ubuntu repos for KDE are fairly placid with their emphasis on stability. Which is good for most users.