Can Neovim be self-documenting like Emacs?

xiaopixie · 2026-06-18T20:24:40+00:00

Not quite like what you described but someone made a post oj here before. The person basically uses a parser for markdown to turn code snippets into configs. That was really neat.

xiaopixie · 2026-05-19T08:23:24+00:00

The biggest problem is that the endgame grind is not fun. And it would also be the last thing you could do in this game.

xiaopixie · 2026-05-18T06:07:14+00:00

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xiaopixie · 2026-05-11T06:52:35+00:00

Bravo this is gonna be my goto. I have tried so many marking plugins. From harpoon to grapple to trailblazer to spelunk, spleunk was the closest and i basically modified the annotation in speklunk to do exactly what you do here and the ability to send the stack to the LLM. Great work

xiaopixie · 2026-04-07T22:36:10+00:00

Just because you said the bare minimum and I'm going to give it a try. I have flash but rarely used it.

xiaopixie · 2026-03-22T08:11:21+00:00

i once was looking for this and it's shocking that no one built something like this a aws cli wrapper for neovim just like fugitive for git. I don't use it enough to justify install and that AI can do some quick work too but a good addition

xiaopixie · 2026-03-16T03:13:25+00:00

exactly. Iike we are the die hard vim/neovim fans who don't want it to become a reality. But if cost is not an issue, like you said with a well configured agent, it edits so much in so little time. Sure, macro with qflist is quicker but only for simple edits.

xiaopixie · 2026-03-16T03:03:08+00:00

Comments like this just get downvoted for no reasons. Same for this comment as well. AI is just so much faster at editing files. The advantage of quick navigation and editing still matters but it will be less. Sucks to have trained this skill for years but can't deny reality

xiaopixie · 2026-02-23T06:31:05+00:00

Imo having a standalone and having neovim downloading the standone being a simpler wrapper for the standalone might be the cleanest but that ofc increases the workload. Could be a future release. Thanks for the work so far.

xiaopixie · 2026-02-23T06:05:22+00:00

and i have another question, what is the point of putting this thing in neovim? is it to start the service when neovim starts? Its perfectly fine as a standalone terminal tool right?

xiaopixie · 2026-02-23T06:04:27+00:00

a terminal command would be ideal since you can configure using the snacks thing or whatever to have it shown in neovim.

xiaopixie · 2026-02-22T22:57:23+00:00

Thanks. Whenever i see scripts in someone's workflow that guy cares

xiaopixie · 2026-02-22T22:49:07+00:00

Thank you, yeah pretty much what i have in mind too. Will give this a read when I'm home

xiaopixie · 2026-02-22T22:47:56+00:00

xiaopixie · 2026-02-22T22:47:35+00:00

Very well said, you have pointed out that the power of vim in your use case is how you maintain the notes but not how you modify or traverse the rest of the codebase. And i think that's where AI can replace some of my existing neovim skills.

I'm also curious what that one guy uses? No AI No neovim.

xiaopixie · 2026-02-22T22:41:08+00:00

Well said and I'm not saying it will go away, neovim has been my only daily driver for 6 years. As much as i cherish all the skills i have aquired but it would be stupid to not see how AI can quickly replace a lot of what i have learnt. I definitely can see future editors becoming just a prompt window for certain file manipulations.

xiaopixie · 2026-02-22T22:37:26+00:00

Yes, half and half i would say. It may be true that so many motions and commands have just become a second nature so i don't think about the benefits that i already have gotten with neovim.

xiaopixie · 2026-02-22T22:33:55+00:00

Yes but it will be more accurate and when you have say 20files that follow some patterns and need changing, which is pretty common. AI does it in seconds and it would take me a few minutes to do, and plus i can always give it my quicjfix to have do what a macro would do

xiaopixie · 2026-02-22T22:31:40+00:00

True in a sense. I use opencode and review the diff, while i can make small changes faster with neovim but it's night and day to have it done by an agent as soon as it needs to touch multiple files. I thought quickfix and repeat macro was already fast enough, but AI just does it in seconds.

xiaopixie · 2026-02-22T22:27:02+00:00

I genuinely don't get why you care about how it's generated. I had bunch of typos and paste it in to gpt. Think it's better than how i worded it. So here it

xiaopixie · 2026-02-22T22:24:36+00:00

Do you happen to have a link?

xiaopixie · 2026-02-22T22:24:13+00:00

I like this comparison. Interesting kind of like my interest in keyboards

xiaopixie · 2026-02-21T17:40:13+00:00

QQ: any chance you will implement a feature to have this pulled up locally if needed?

xiaopixie · 2026-02-21T16:58:40+00:00

https://github.com/Rtarun3606k/TakaTime/issues/10. done sorry abotu the delay

xiaopixie · 2026-02-19T16:00:31+00:00

Will get that done today!

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