Tales From the Yak Shed

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This is a series of (mis)adventures caused by my tendency to shave yaks, paint sheds, and generally put carts before horses when I make things.

I’ll try to include as much context as is helpful, any lessons I may have learned, and as errors as my ego can handle.

We can do better than `vim.g`

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Returning to the use of globals for all neovim configuration would be a step backward for the Neovim plugin ecosystem, especially when another better and easier possibility exists.

Some History

Recently, there’s been a bit of a debate going on in the Neovim community around how we should structure our plugins. One of the arguments that’s been put forward has been that we should return to the older “vim” style of plugin configuration, i.e global variables that are picked up by our plugins at runtime to handle configuration.

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Tales From the Yak Shed

We can do better than `vim.g`

Some History