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+title: Why Do I use Neovim?
+description: >-
+  Have you ever wondered, why do people use Neovim, is it because all the other
+  popular youtubers out there are usig it? What's realy happening
+image:
+  path: ./../../assets/img/imgs/251117-thux-why-use-neovim.avif
+date: '2025-11-17 06:10:00 +0000'
+categories:
+  - neovim
+tags:
+  - neovim
+  - tutorial
+  - youtube
+  - video
+---
+## Contents
+
+### Table of contents
+
+<!-- toc -->
+
+- [YouTube video](#youtube-video)
+- [Why do I use Neovim?](#why-do-i-use-neovim)
+- [Community-driven promotion](#community-driven-promotion)
+- [You're a fraud, why do you ask for money, isn't YouTube Ads enough?](#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough)
+
+<!-- tocstop -->
+
+## YouTube video
+
+{% include embed/youtube.html id='' %} Paste thumbnail here
+
+## Why do I use Neovim?
+
+**You** don't know it yet, but after you try Neovim, you will **love** it. I was
+used **to** VScode, but never enjoyed it. The reason for that could be that I
+**suck** at programming, as I'm not a developer. By the way, did you ever watch
+the `"Fun with` **Dick** `and Jane"` 2005 film with Jim Carrey? **I love it
+too**. This also reminded me that a few days ago I was watching this movie I
+used to watch as a kid, `"Dennis the Menace"` from 1993, and I was having a
+blast. The scene with the crook is just hilarious. When I watched it as a kid, I
+did it from the perspective of Dennis, but this last time hit different, I was
+the grumpy old man, Mr. George Wilson.
+
+With all that philosophy out of the way, let's talk business. Why do I use
+Neovim? I really have to think this through and try to justify my answer. I
+don't have it at the top of my mind. But I've forgotten how it feels to work
+outside Neovim. The words I'm reading right now were written a night before
+after my parents came to visit, they had to drive for 2 hours just to see me. My
+brother recently came from the US, he drives a container truck there, works more
+hours a day that you can imagine. Latinos man, I'm proud of him, and my other 2
+brothers.
+
+All I had to do to start writing was to leave the "r" pressed in my keyboard,
+that brings up the daily note, and I start writing. This is done inside Neovim.
+
+If then I remember I have to modify kitty's transparency as I cannot see the
+background image that well, I just press `hyper+t+r` on my keyboard. That
+immediately takes me to my "dotfiles" kitty session, which automatically opens
+Neovim in that directory, look for the file, open it, and start working on it. I
+use sublayers by the way, if you don't know what I'm talking about, go and watch
+[this video](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xTFAbuvcF0A){:target="\_blank"}
+
+But then I remember I had to edit the "about me" page on my blogpost, I have to
+update the pricing for the people that want to promote themselves in my channel.
+So I press `hyper+t+l` and takes me to that other session, which opens Neovim in
+that other directory, I can quickly jump to that file, edit it in less than 10
+seconds. Automatically saves, bring up LazyGit from within Neovim, push the
+changes, and that automatically builds the site through a GitHub action. This is
+all done without ever leaving my terminal or switching to another app, no
+clicking around, no visually searching for stuff, just acting on my keyboard
+really fast, and a few fingertips away.
+
+Then I'm like, alright, let's go back to my dots, I need to push a lot of
+pending changes that I have not committed in days. So by leaving pressed a
+single key `b` I go back to the previous kitty session, bring up LazyGit, commit
+and push all my changes. It takes me just a few minutes. My chain of thought is
+not interrupted, I don't lose my flow. It just naturally and gracefully follows
+my commands.
+
+Then I remember. I have a video idea for tomorrow, I need to write it down
+before I forget. I just leave the `t` key pressed and this brings up yet another
+repo. Which I call `skitty-notes` and I write down the video idea, this takes me
+just a few seconds, and my flow is not interrupted. Then I go back to my
+previous session by just leaving `b` pressed again.
+
+If you don't know what the concept of the "Alternate" session, file, and app
+are. It just means the "previous" one. With `b` I go to the alternate kitty
+session. With `leader+space` I go to the alternate file within neovim, with `z`
+I go to the alternate app. With `x` I go to the alternate instance of the same
+app. The idea is to go back really fast between the last 2 things you were
+working on. More detailed video coming soon.
+
+I need to write something in my daily note for today, so I'll just leave the `e`
+key pressed to get there. I'll write down what I need. Autocompletion will work
+beautifully, and if I write something incorrectly, the `Harper Language Server`
+will kick in and bitch about it. I'm writing offensive language? It will let me
+know, if I write Neovim with a lowercase letter? It will let me know too. How
+can I jump to that Harper diagnostic to fix it? `[d` or `]d` take me there, then
+I just press `Leader+mss` to fix it.
+
+What if I want to create a blogpost out of this video I'm reading right now?
+That's a piece of cake. I bring up a snippet with `;blogposttemplate` which
+fills out the blogpost template, copy paste the body of the article. Add a few
+images with some custom Neovim keymaps that automatically convert those images
+to the AVIF format and store them in my `assets` directory. And the article is
+up, in less than 10 minutes. What if I want to add an entire section in all the
+articles in my blogpost with a search and replace that runs in visual mode in
+less than a few seconds? I do that with a Neovim plugin called `grug-far.nvim`.
+I have a video in which I demo all this blogpost related workflow in real time.
+[Go and check it out](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ps-Vn67AF-4)
+
+Do I open a new directory but I need to create a GitHub repo from it? No
+problem, I have a keymap that will create the repo for me, from within Neovim. I
+don't even have to go to GitHub. It will ask me if I want the repo to be private
+or public, the name I want to use and just do it.
+
+If I'm working on a specific file and I want to go to that exact same file, but
+in GitHub? No problem, press a keymap and I get there.
+
+These are just a few of the things I can think about from the top of my head.
+
+I'm pretty sure by the end of the video I'll be like, how could I forget that
+feature to show up? Yes, it happens. So as you can see, if you can imagine it,
+Neovim can do it. I didn't even touch on my Markdown editing workflow, which is
+my specialty, but we'll take a look at that another day.
+
+Is it like it sounds, just rainbows and butterflies? Not at all, getting there
+will take a lot of time and configuring. But in the long run, it will be worth
+the investment.
+
+By the end of this video, you'll see the blogpost article up and running, even
+before the video is out, as I published it from Neovim during the recording.
+
+So after seeing this, what do you think? Why would you ever want to leave all of
+this power that Neovim, accompanied by a great terminal can offer. My terminal
+of choice as of now is Kitty. I switched away from Ghostty. If you want to learn
+why, let me know down in the comments. Also, I talked to Kovid (the creator of
+the Kitty terminal) a few days ago, and it seems we'll do another interview one
+of these days. Part 2. I want to ask him about his OS of choice, Window manager
+and other Linux related questions. Probably this coming Sunday. So if you have
+questions, get them ready for the public and free livestream. In the meantime,
+go and watch the first interview we had a few months ago.
+
+So, will you be giving Neovim a try?
+
+## Community-driven promotion
+
+Do you want to promote yourself in my channel? I'm not talking about a company
+like notion, brilliant, and all those other ones we're using to seeing. I'm
+talking about you as a person, do you have a project, course, youtube channel or
+product and trying to reach an audience?
+
+If interested, pricing and all the details can be found
+[in this other page](https://chirpy.home.linkarzu.com/about/#community-driven-promotion){:target="\_blank"}
+
+## You're a fraud, why do you ask for money, isn't YouTube Ads enough?
+
+- I explain all of this in the "about me page" link below:
+  - [youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough](https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough){:target="\_blank"}
+  - Above you'll also find links to my discord, social media, etc
+