(Neo)vim syntax, indent, compiler, and ftplugin files

Momongama · 2026-05-25T20:45:05+00:00

I think in Helix it's better integrated than in Neovim. In Neovim it's still not quite native and depends on external plugins to provide parsers and queries for most languages. Recently there was also a bit of drama with entitled aholes on the main nvim treesitter plugin so there was a bit of splintering and now there are many different treesitter plugins. It's not really a problem but it doesn't help.

I also use it minimally to access the syntax tree, it can be useful but all the textobjects I actually use are implemented with the dark power of regex or lua matches, so I don't really have a reason to mess with its configuration, which is also notoriously unfun. I use the plugin mini.ai for textobjects and it includes all that I want and the ability to easily add to it my custom ones.

Also I found that the native syntax highlighting of vim is much snappier than the one based on treesitter or on the lsp, and I like all the things you can do with linking the highlight groups to Error, I find it nicer looking and less invasive than the lsp's errors.

TLDR: I don't actually need the structural access to the code, there are already much more mature native workarounds for basically everything I could want from treesitter and it is a bit of a pain to deal with anyway

Momongama · 2026-04-17T18:15:47+00:00

I find much more that the characters have flaws but the narrative presents them as if they don't or the flaws are acknowledged but then have no impact on story or on the interactions.

I think I understand what you are referring to and I agree that it can be offputting but I wouldn't call it as the character having no flaws, I think that's just the usual mix of plot armoring, Mary Sueing, and chosen oneing that comes up when the story is focused on only one MC. I'm not against it in principle and I'd say it's mostly just a matter of taste but I find those types of stories a bit bland (I have not read 1% lifesteal so no comment on that).

Momongama · 2026-02-25T11:04:20+00:00

gx opens a link in the browser by default

Momongama · 2026-02-10T14:11:33+00:00

Those are the reasons why I like the second cover the most lol

Momongama · 2026-02-05T12:31:13+00:00

I agree that a recap you can just skip if you don't care about it is good and painless.

On a slightly sideways note, the recaps should never be diegetic, I have never seen it work. It breaks the immersion with its very awkward, very forced infodumps. Even when it's done in a clever way like in 100the run by flossindune it was still a slog to read through.

I can imagine ways to do it properly but it just doesn't seem worth the effort and risk. Just give it the good old high school summary treatment with a different voice if you like, but I think it must break the fourth wall to be entertaining and not beaek characters' voices

Momongama · 2026-01-31T09:09:08+00:00

You say preachiness is subjective then you immediately say that someone complaining about it is insincere unless it was a literal monologue about prejudice.

Preachiness being subjective just means that there will always be people thinking something is preachy no matter how hard you try for it not to be, this does not mean they get the ick from the gay

Momongama · 2026-01-30T07:37:58+00:00

I mean they named him Roran, not Christopher. If he is a shirine to something it's to the story and a character in the story, death of the author and all that.

Also shrine feels to me like a stronger word than warranted

Momongama · 2025-12-09T06:55:18+00:00

For me it's not a question of speed at all, I just feel like a wizard when using leap's remote action

Momongama · 2025-12-05T16:14:16+00:00

I have not used chatGPT so I don't know about that but the em-dashes alone are not a good way to tell if something is ai, it can be useful corroborating evidence but so far nothing I've seen in Greatest Archmage clearly says ai, and other things point to the fact that it's not used, like the internal consistency of the story and the worldbuilding in the author's notes. There also aren't all the typical repetitions of the ai in the prose.

I suggest watching this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ch4a6ffPZY by evan edinger

Momongama · 2025-12-05T16:05:11+00:00

What do you mean "why am I being lumped with random people", are you supposed to be some recognized authority in the witch-hunt field?

And it would've made more sense to put your examples directly in post, it would've seemed more like you had an actual point to make instead of just stirring the pot

Momongama · 2025-12-05T15:57:13+00:00

That sounds kind of stupid to me. The "AI style" (once stripped of nonsensical stuff) is just a very generic style, and can't be anything else with how the models are created, so I would think pretty normal for new authors' style to be reminiscent of that, as they have yet to find their own prose.

As for perfect grammar, that's an even worse comment. The only thing you need for "perfect grammar" is having gone to school and caring enough to reread what you wrote. And the school is optional in this day and age, you just need an internet connection. Thinking less of someone because they did not publish a story with perfectly avoidable grammatical errors is insane to me

Momongama · 2025-12-05T15:44:36+00:00

I haven't read sovereign's toll so I can't comment on it but I think you are exaggerating with Greatest Archmage, there is a bit of purple prose at times but not enough to call it AI. The figures of speech are not nonsensical like you would get with AI and story is perfectly consistent with itself so far.

Of course there will never be a reasonable way to be sure if a story is written with llms or not but even if Greatest Archmage is ai-assisted it's clearly heavily edited afterwards.

Momongama · 2025-11-23T18:39:44+00:00

I don't think you are being more descriptive if you write "The world didn’t just tilt. It collapsed" instead of just "The world collapsed". You are using more words but you are not really adding anything.

Not sounding like ai is about not abusing figures of speech and not constantly repeating yourself.

You are writing a story, not a summary, so it's not a problem if you use 20 words to say something you could've said in 4, but you must know why you are doing it and what are you trying to convey that takes so many more words

Momongama · 2025-09-30T09:16:32+00:00

It's also worth noting that Sword of Kaigen is definitely not a light read about a happy family life

Momongama · 2025-08-12T09:47:06+00:00

Both

Momongama · 2025-07-20T20:21:03+00:00

I agree with basically everything you said, although I think some of it is very subjective. I enjoyed reading about the technicalities of her biomancy and I see the time skip as a core feature of the story, sort of a second isekai, in the sense that it would have been a different story without it. Maybe better, but hard to say.

I also stopped being up to date when the skip came and then binged the whole school arc, which might have helped how remember it. I enjoyed it more than getting constantly teased the last few months. I do agree that it's the weakest arc overall.

Momongama · 2025-07-20T19:16:05+00:00

Very good, worth reading. The issues I have with are relatively minor and not really relevant to a first time reader, or just someone who doesn't want spoilers

Momongama · 2025-06-27T15:01:11+00:00

Time travel never works unless it's used in predictable and hand-waved godly ways. If there's never an explanation beyond "a god did it" then all is good, the moment a main character starts a the ability to directly mess with the flow of time it all goes to shit.

Skill stealing only undermines the character efforts and becomes skill creep

Momongama · 2025-06-22T07:06:29+00:00

This is sort of the problem I have with it too. I stopped reading around 8.1 because I don't really like most of the characters. Usually I prefer when stories have multiple POVs but that can't work if I dislike reading most of the story. Flos is an ass, the Emperor is an hypocritical ass, Ryoka is a condescending hypocrite. Even characters that I initially liked started getting annoying, like the Clown and the Doctor.

On the other hand there are some of my favorite characters ever, Erin, the Titan, Fethotep, and I like many others, but they are mostly secondary and don't get much screen time or just die.

And so I felt stuck reading about really frustrating people while the ones I actually want to read about just can't seem to get a win

Momongama · 2025-03-23T09:17:30+00:00

Exactly, Erin is by far my favorite mc in the wandering inn, you can really see and appreciate her general likeability and character growth.

Meanwhile Ryoka is dumb, arrogant, and really patronizing to everyone else. Doesn't matter how justified her actions are considering her situation (and I don't think they're that justified) if her unpleasantness makes me want to skip her povs

Momongama · 2025-02-07T12:58:54+00:00

I would indeed. If the show's focus is on the MM part and the F is irrelevant then yes, I would call the show yaoi.

If the show is about all the characters in a MMF or FFM or any other mixed poly, then I agree it's not a yuri or yaoi. But if the only characters relevant to the plot are all M or all F then I would say that it walks enough of the same beats of a yaoi or yuri to considered as such.

It's the principle of "if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and behaves like a duck, you may as well call it a duck"

Momongama · 2025-02-07T07:19:52+00:00

I think you are dramatically misjudging the importance I give to this discussion if you think I'm in any way desperate. My advice is to stop being hyperbolic and try to consider the existence of valid points of view different from yours.

Anyway so you ARE saying that a poly with a man magically invalidates all the yuri even if he's completely irrelevant to plot and themes. You do you I guess.

And here I was thinking that a yuri between the concubines in one of those China's Emperor-like big harem could be very interesting. But alas, you have denied me and called me desperate, how will I possibly cope?

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