After the "fun" I had in the Neovim Github tracker this week, I poured a ton of love back into my old vimrc.

I also updated my website theme to pair up with the new vim colorscheme I'm enjoying.

And lastly, I redirected my financial support for Neovim back into Vim.. I even own some of the official merch. I'll drop it off at a donation center the next time I go to the dump.

Life goes on, man.

#neovim #vim

Best long term viable vim replacement?

#vi #nvi #vim #neovim #editors

@drew@social.freebitcoin.gay vim (and not vim classic, different projects!) still has a permissive ai policy :\

https://hachyderm.io/@AndrewRadev/116175986749599825

https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/18800#issuecomment-3568099543

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Avim%2Fvim+claude&type=commits&s=committer-date&o=desc

there is EVi, a fork of vim with an anti-ai policy. We'll probably be using that

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#slop, #aiSlop, #vim, #nvim, #neovim, #llm

Somebody brought this up amid the NVim saga:
https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/12680

This reminded me of my own attempt to get the StreetComplete devs to do something similar didn't really end well:
https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetMeasure/pull/22#issuecomment-5163263620

Gee, let's enforce that against the nonexistent code of conduct: https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/7022

Sigh. Welp, I guess I'm not using that anytime soon...

#osm #openstreetmap #foss #neovim #streetcomplete

https://github.com/neovim/neovim.github.io/issues/501

THIS. RIGHT. HERE. is the problem with Linux and FOSS. this is the PRIMARY example of it. The users don't want racism, facism, etc in their FOSS and god knows how many devs are tolerating it IN HOPES of getting some of that fat Omarchy Funding.

This is why there will never be an age of "Linux for the Desktop" because at the end of the day, no matter what a maintainer or dev says they need/WANT that money.

So stop using Neovim? sure. but how long until the devs at Helix pull the same card? How long until the dev of Foot does the same because Omarchy uses Foot?

this sucks. but this is where we're at.

#Linux #FOSS #Neovim

@rozodru

Yeah, while writing my question to the maintainers, I did a quick lookup about the Neovim finances.

It really looks like justinmk runs Neovim as his own property: he pays himself about 8k USD monthly salary (living in Berlin?).

Another *quite* interesting point - at the Bitcoin address linked in the sponsorship channels there are parked more than 10 BTC (~860k USD now), the equivalent of 6 years of expenses for the Neovim (which are again, about 80% is the justinmk salary).

On the other hand, Neovim has 0 formal policy on who could do what and what are the consequences. We were trusting somebody with our money with 0 responsiblities.

#Neovim #FOSS

I am disappointed.

My list of boycotts keeps growing.
Fascism, consumption, waste.
We should be living with the conservation and sustainability of all things at the base of our decisions.

Our habitat, environment, air, water, food, forests, all life, and our energy! Electricity is a precious commodity that should not befall capitalist consumerism.

I boycott #GAFAM, Airbnb, MacDo, Nestlé, and LLMs,...

Now the #Linux kernel has decided to use LLMs. Slop aside it is not an ethical choice for its consumption and ties to fascism.
Debian too.

The Nazis in #FOSS, DHH, Omarchy, Hyprland, and #NeoVim. Framework computer!

Fascism is alive and well in FOSS.

God, what a fucking asshole.

Anyways, I've already spent some time removing #neovim from about half of my build/development containers. For now I'm going back to #vim, but once vim-classic or #evi is packaged in #debian, I'll switch to one of those.

Alt...

A github comment by justinmk, posted 1h ago: "You all have embarrassed and shamed yourselves. Most of you aren't Neovim users, but a drive-by mob, swirling from one mindless vomit-party to another, like the pacific garbage patch."

@feld

It was only just added to the ports tree a fortnight ago.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=295817

@pertho
#VIM #NeoVIM #FreeBSD #STEVIE

Never felt better being a lazy nano user. #neovim (Hashtag contains DHH drama)

Well, this sucks and will be really annoying, but I'll have to get rid of neovim:

https://circumstances.run/@mawhrin/117167738907856218

When asked about an endorsement from well-known racist and white supremacist David Heinemeier Hanson on the neovim homepage, the maintainer Justin M. Keyes decided to get really about it instead of doing the sensible thing and just removing it.

Also, another maintainer, TJ DeVries, will be speaking on Omacon 2026, together wit DHH and Vaxry, another person with a rather ugly track record.

#neovim

The problem of fascists in Open Source Software projects has become so bad that some vim users are considering using emacs.

#Neovim #Fascism #OSS #OpenSourceSoftware

Looking for a replacement to Neovim since it became fascist/white supremacist friendly after featuring DHH and refusing to remove his quote/endorsement from their site?

Come try out EVi, a fork of VIm 9.1.0 made by me and a few other maintainers on Codeberg.

We don't have Lua stuff like Neovim but it's still a good alternative if you want a non-AI, pro-antifa, modern Vim experience.

https://codeberg.org/evi-editor/evi

#Neovim #EVi #VIm #Codeberg

After reading @rl_dane's post, I wanted to share how I manage my #bookmarks, and add some quick #notes using #neovim.

#editors #vi #vim #shell #fediverse #bsd #linux
https://lazybea.rs/ils-bookmarks-and-notes

I am using it primarily with modal editors. Now #Helix, used to be #Neovim. Works really well with both. Even though the layout is completely different, in modal editors I just reach for the right letter. The only exception are hjkl for movement, but I have arrow keys mapped on homerow in the same way. Not only I don't have trouble with my muscle memory in vim/hx but I also brought it to all other applications :D

https://colemakmods.github.io/mod-dh/keyboards.html#matrix-keyboards

https://github.com/foostan/crkbd/blob/main/docs/corne-cherry/v3/buildguide_en.md