What does HackerNews think of kickstart.nvim?
A launch point for your personal nvim configuration
Solution 1: Add this to your vimrc. This will make it so when going up and down, wrapped lines are properly interpreted and not skipped
``` " better up and down map j gj map k gk ```
Solution 2: If you want to make it where the cursor literally goes ANYWHERE in the document, including in space that doesn't even exist, do this below. I used this mode for a very long time and it's amazing. I only switched recently just to try something new to see if I like it more, and right now I'm just 50/50 on if its better or not
``` " allow cursor to go anywhere set virtualedit=all ```
Lastly, try using `vimtutor` from terminal and practice commands right there in your terminal.
And, if by "slow" you are talking about literal performance, try Neovim. Neovim is basically a fork of nvim that gets rid of vimscript (but still allows it if you want to use it) and instead implements Lua, which is an extremely (the fastest, actually) scripting language. (The other comment you asked about was a Neovim lua configuration which does the same thing as the vimscript version).
Part of the Neovim idea is that they also set a lot more "sane" default config thats more modern.
The best part about Neovim is that it supports LSP's in a much better way, so you can complete VS-Code like IDE experience, rather than relying on a complex array of plugins. If you decide to do that, check out lsp-zero for the easiest setup possible.
If you decide to give neovim a shot, I would 100% recommend using this: https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim
I recently transferred 10+ year vim config to lua and neovim, and I saw people recommending this over and over. Because I wasnt familiar with it I thought "I dont need that, i want to start fresh". Well after doing that for nearly a month, I realized how good kickstart is, it REALLY is quite good, and does lots and lots that you would want without doing too much. I didnt use it, but i took tons of inspiration from it for setting up LSPs.
Let me know if you have any questions I'd love to not lose vim friend over something stupid like moving on long lines.
All in all it looks like we had a wildly different experience. I suspect the real issue is that I like to work with vim a million times than I did with vscode. You might me biased the other way. I feel better on the command line and it's amazing how much people have figured out already to make things run well and look nice.
Kickstart nvim: https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim
I started with this config. This made it a lot easier to start.
https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim
It's a single, well-commented config file that will provide you with a neovim that has TreeSitter, LSPs, Lazy, Telescope and a few other useful tools. It's intended to be customised and tailored to your needs.
Astro is more of an attempt to replicate the full IDE experience. You can just copy-paste the above, and you are going (personally, I don't think nvim should be used like a full IDE, you really don't need the file tree or tabs, nvim has a better system than this).
[1] https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig [2] https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim