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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 27/08/2026

'mini.nvim' now has a module for improved statuscolumn (area with line numbers, signs, fold indicators): 'mini.statuscolumn'. Release blog post: nvim-mini.org/blog/2026-08... #neovim

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Announcing ‘mini.statuscolumn’ – MINI

Fast statuscolumn with improved defaults and dimming inactive windows

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 21/06/2026

'mini.nvim' got 0.18.0 release: new featureful module to ask user for input, 'mini.deps' development freeze, 'mini.files' LSP integration, and a lot of small updates to existing modules. What a good way to celebrate June solstice! Release blog post: nvim-mini.org/blog/2026-06...

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Release 0.18.0 – MINI

Featureful user input, ‘mini.deps’ freeze, ‘mini.files’ LSP integration, and a heap of module tweaks

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 04/06/2026

I am happy to announce the release of 'mini.input' - a module of 'mini.nvim' that makes asking for user input both more functional and visually pleasant. 'mini.nvim' now crossed two milestones: 45+ modules and 5000+ tests. Release blog post: nvim-mini.org/blog/2026-06...

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Announcing ‘mini.input’ – MINI

Get user input with fully customizable key and view handling

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Neovim @neovim.io · 01/06/2026

#neovim repository has reached 100K GitHub stars. Thank you all for the support 🙏

A screenshot of GitHub user interface that shows that Neovim repository has 100003 stars.

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 29/03/2026

That's a big release with a lot of awesome features. Check it out and update!

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 23/03/2026

This was a surprisingly quick and rewarding side quest. About 72 hours from the idea of a Lua mockup to merging tested C code.

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Paweł Grzybek @pawelgrzybek.com · 21/03/2026

One of the core maintainers @echasnovski.com , and the author of `mini.nvim` just published this superb explainer of vim.pack with a handy migration guide. Incredible post for all Neovim users, worth reading before the upcoming release of @neovim.io 0.12. echasnovski.com/blog/2026-03... #neovim

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A Guide to vim.pack (Neovim built-in plugin manager) – Evgeni Chasnovski

A somewhat concise yet comprehensive guide to vim.pack: how it works and how to use it

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linkarzu.bsky.social @linkarzu.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Tempted by a new Neovim setup? @echasnovski.com MiniMax offers a stable foundation you control from the start. Not a distro, but a powerful base for your own config. Ideal for new users or those avoiding complex migrations. #Neovim #MiniMax #Vim #Editor #Programming

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 13/03/2026

For almost a year developing `vim.pack` (Neovim>=0.12 built-in plugin manager) has been one of my top open source priorities. With #neovim 0.12 release around the corner, I decided to make a comprehensive guide about how `vim.pack` works and how to use it. echasnovski.com/blog/2026-03...

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A Guide to vim.pack (Neovim built-in plugin manager) – Evgeni Chasnovski

A somewhat concise yet comprehensive guide to vim.pack: how it works and how to use it

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 27/02/2026

Thanks to @bfredl.bsky.social casting his magic, some benchmarks had to be redone to show different (better) performance. So the post has been updated. TL;DR for those who read the original: there is now no practical difference in performance of using one vs many `vim.pack.add()` calls.

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 15/02/2026

MiniMax now uses `vim.pack` on Neovim>=0.12 and usable on Neovim=0.10. This is a more exciting news than it might look, because it is the first step towards MINI adapting `vim.pack` as the plugin manager. 'mini.deps' will be retired soon-ish after Neovim 0.12 release. nvim-mini.org/blog/2026-02...

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MiniMax updates: vim.pack on Neovim>=0.12, config for Neovim=0.10 – MINI

MiniMax got two new reference configs: nvim-0.12 for Neovim>=0.12 (uses vim.pack) and nvim-0.10 for Neovim=0.10

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 27/01/2026

For the longest time I was curious to measure the exact impact of how number of loaded #neovim plugins affects performance. So I finally did it: echasnovski.com/blog/2026-01...

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How many Neovim plugins is too many – Evgeni Chasnovski

Exploration of how number of loaded plugins affect startup+runtime performance

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 22/01/2026

Thanks for taking your time to arrange the interview, @linkarzu.bsky.social! We talked about Neovim, mini.nvim, MiniMax, Linux, terminals, and some other topics. Check it out. It is long (3+ hours), but it was fun to do. Hopefully also fun to watch/listen.

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Tangled @tangled.org · 21/01/2026

hello tanglers, its release time! to kick things off, we first have: ✨ a brand new pull-request review page ✨ you can view the file-tree, diff/interdiff and review comments, all in one page with this new 3-panel layout! 1/7

the new PR page on tangled showing off the 3 panel layout.

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 20/01/2026

That's a very good news for me. Thank you for spreading the word! I want to tell Bluesky a small story about @jasonlong.me. He is the original author of the Neovim logo. I am no artist, so when it was time for 'mini.nvim' to get one, I emailed him to ask if he is up for help.

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 31/12/2025

I am really grateful for the opportunity to work on vim.pack this year. It is mostly ready and I am very proud of the result. Thank you Neovim team for the trust!

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Neovim @neovim.io · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas from your favorite text editor!

ASCII "art" done inside `nvim --clean` that resembles Christmas tree

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 18/12/2025

After whopping 7 months since the latest one, 'mini.nvim' got a new 0.17.0 release. It contains one new module ('mini.cmdline') and many small improvements for existing ones. Check out the release blog post: nvim-mini.org/blog/2025-12...

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Release 0.17.0 – MINI

Command line tweaks, move to a GitHub org, new website, and a ton of module updates

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 07/12/2025

After about 7 months, 'mini.nvim' gets a new module: 'mini.cmdline'. It contains command line tweaks that'll make #neovim usage a bit better: autocompletion, autocorrection, and autopeek of command range (like `:10` or `:10,20sort`). Link to a releases blog post: nvim-mini.org/blog/2025-12...

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Announcing ‘mini.cmdline’ – MINI

Command line tweaks: autocompletion, autocorrection, autopeek range

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Bailey Townsend 🦀 @pds.dad · 03/12/2025

I'm happy to announce that my PDS, selfhosted.social, is officially open to the public now!

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Selfhosted.social

Landing page for selfhosted.social, an ATProto PDS

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 01/12/2025

Christmas month has officially started for MINI! The site and mini.nvim + MiniMax logos are now holiday themed. Check them out: nvim-mini.org

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MINI

Modular Independent Neovim Improvements

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 02/11/2025

Very nice #VimConf 2025 presentation about 'mini.nvim': www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MQp... Thank you, @kawarimidoll.github.io!

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VimConf 2025 Small

YouTube video by vim-jp

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Heiker @vonheikemen.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

i wrote down everything i know about color schemes in neovim. so if you ever wanted to create one from scratch this might be a good place to start. vonheikemen.github.io/learn-nvim/f... #neovim

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Colorscheme | Learn nvim

Learn how to use Neovim and survive the experience

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 13/10/2025

I am very happy to announce the release of MiniMax - Neovim config example(s) that is primarily based on MINI/mini.nvim. The plan was to wait until when 'mini.statuscolumn' and 'mini.terminals' are implemented, but decided to just do it now. Here is the release post: nvim-mini.org/blog/2025-10...

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MiniMax - Neovim with maximum MINI – MINI

MiniMax is a collection of fully working self-contained Neovim configs. Each uses mostly MINI.

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 10/10/2025

This is awesome! I've waited for this for so long.

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 03/10/2025

I am very pleased to announce that MINI/mini.nvim project finally has its own site: nvim-mini.org . Having to link to txt Neovim help files on GitHub for documentation is mildly inhumane towards the users 😅 But no more! More details here: nvim-mini.org/blog/2025-10...

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MINI

Modular Independent Neovim Improvements

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dan @danabra.mov · 26/09/2025

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

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Open Social — overreacted

The protocol is the API.

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 13/09/2025

Finally decided to switch to a custom domain handle. It is now @echasnovski.com instead of a previous @echasnovski.bsky.social.

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 28/08/2025

After much deliberation, contemplating, overanalyzing, preparation, overanalyzing (yes, again), and finally execution I transferred 'mini.nvim' plugin to the separate GitHub organization. I hope this will improve long term stability of the project. More details here: github.com/nvim-mini/mi....

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Move to a GitHub organization · nvim-mini mini.nvim · Discussion #1970

Hello, 'mini.nvim' users! The echasnovski/mini.nvim plugin (along with all its standalone repos) was transferred to a dedicated nvim-mini GitHub organization. Important notes: I do not plan to move...

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 23/08/2025

Thanks to caring and compassionate redditors, the account is now unsuspended. I'd also like to thank @lukas.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy for doing huge work of manually approving all my previous posts before knowing that suspension would be lifted. This probably helped the case, really.

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wooofie 🌱 @robinwobin.dev · 13/08/2025

finally finished writing this absolute behemoth of a blogpost. it's a nice read if you're interested in neovim and its builtin features :) robinroses.xyz/blog/neovim-...

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tending your editor config: building sylvee & lynn

my adventure building a native-first neovim experience

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Heiker @vonheikemen.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

neovim's built-in "treesitter support" is a cool feature that has been around for a while now. i didn't found many resources that explain what is, so i wrote something vonheikemen.github.io/learn-nvim/f... #neovim

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Treesitter | Learn nvim

Learn how to use Neovim and survive the experience

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 21/07/2025

PSA: my Reddit account (same as Bluesky handle) has been suspended for 11 days now. All its past content (mostly #neovim posts + comments) is currently hidden by Reddit filters. It was due to a false positive inauthentic activity detection. I reset the password, but account is still shadow banned.

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linkarzu.bsky.social @linkarzu.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Neovim vs Emacs | Roundtable w/ TJ DeVries, DistroTube, Greg Anders & Joshua Blais (Video in 1st comment)

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 04/07/2025

It was a long road to get here, but we made it 🎉 Thanks @neovim.io core team for allowing me to do this! There are still a lot of things to do, but we'll approach them one small step at a time.

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 18/06/2025

I've been interested to try Nushell for some time now. Several weeks ago decided to give it a try. To me it looks good enough to daily drive, but only if you are comfortable adjusting the setup after new releases (as both language and shell behavior is not quite stable yet).

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 03/05/2025

After a long pause, there is a new 'mini.nvim' module - 'mini.keymap'. It provides the means to create some special mappings: multi-step actions (like "smart" Tab/S-Tab/CR/BS) and combos (more general "better escape" like behavior). #neovim See more details at github.com/echasnovski/... Demo:

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DJ Adams @qmacro.org · 29/04/2025

I've been meaning to get vim-surround configured back into my new (neo)vim setup, but then found that there was mini.surround, part of mini.nvim from @echasnovski.bsky.social and all I had to do was give it life. Works great, thanks! github.com/echasnovski/mini.surround #Neovim

$output from git diff on my config/nvim/lua/config/plugins/mini.lua file, showing the addition of a line to set up mini.surround: ; git diff config/nvim/lua/config/plugins/mini.lua diff --git a/config/nvim/lua/config/plugins/mini.lua b/config/nvim/lua/config/plugins/mini.lua index f32c8c5..aeeb471 100644 --- a/config/nvim/lua/config/plugins/mini.lua +++ b/config/nvim/lua/config/plugins/mini.lua @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ return { config = function() require('mini.statusline').setup({ use_icons = true }) require('mini.starter').setup() + require('mini.surround').setup() vim.keymap.set("n", "<space>ms", MiniStarter.open) end }$

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デイリーZennトレンド @dailyzenntrends.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

今日のZennトレンド Neovimをはじめよう feat. mini.nvim この記事は、Neovimの基本的な操作と、プラグインmini.nvimのほぼ全ての機能を紹介する入門書です。設定ファイルの分割方法や他のプラグインについても解説されており、Neovimのカスタマイズと効率的な利用を支援することを目的としています。実践的な設定例や応用的な活用法も紹介されています。

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Neovimをはじめよう feat. mini.nvim

本書は[Vim駅伝](https://vim-jp.org/ekiden/)の2025-04-14に寄稿しました。Neovim自体の基本的な操作の解説およびNeovimプラグインのmini.nvimが（本書執筆時点で）有するほぼすべてのモジュールの紹介を行っています。また、設定ファイルの分割や他のプラグインについても一部解説しています。

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Neovim @neovim.io · 26/03/2025

#neovim 0.11 is out! - List of notable changes since 0.10: neovim.io/doc/user/new... - Summary blog post: gpanders.com/blog/whats-n... - Release binaries: github.com/neovim/neovi... Thank you all for the support! More things to come in 0.12!

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News-0.11 - Neovim docsNeovim

Neovim user documentation

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 07/03/2025

'mini.completion' now **finally** has snippet support (plus other small improvements). This was a frequently requested feature which I had troubles adding (including a detour of making own snippet engine), but it is finally done. Here is the updated 'mini.completion' #neovim demo:

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

@lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉 With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...

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Air, an extremely fast R formatter

We are thrilled to announce Air, a new R formatter.

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Neovim @neovim.io · 10/02/2025

#neovim Development News The 0.11 version will have improved Unicode handling. For example, it will allow proper display of many more emoji characters than before. Both in regular and terminal buffers. All thanks to @bfredl.bsky.social pain, tears, and dedication. PR: - github.com/neovim/neovi...

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support emojis with ZWJ and variant selectors by bfredl · Pull Request #30014 · neovim/neovim

The implementation of grapheme clusters was upgraded to closely follow extended grapheme clusters as defined by UAX#29 in the unicode standard. Noteworthily, this enables proper display of many ...

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DevOps Toolbox @omerxx.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Hey @echasnovski.bsky.social I made something you're going to like! Also comes with a new logo suggestion 😅 youtu.be/qyB-sAvW2lI?...

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This Neovim "Plugin" Replaces 40 Others

YouTube video by DevOps Toolbox

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Neovim @neovim.io · 13/01/2025

#neovim Development News The 0.11 version will have tree-sitter highlighting done asynchronously. This should improve responsiveness. It also means that programmatically getting the parser no longer pre-parses the tree. Call `parse()` method explicitly. PR: - github.com/neovim/neovi...

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feat(treesitter): async parsing by ribru17 · Pull Request #31631 · neovim/neovim

Problem: Parsing can be slow for large files, and it is a blocking operation which can be disruptive and annoying. Solution: Provide a function for asynchronous parsing, which accepts a callback to...

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Evgeni Chasnovski @echasnovski.com · 09/01/2025

Switched yesterday from mouse to a trackball (ProtoArc EM-03) and now browsing suddenly feels fun. The same feeling when you get trying something new (programming language, Neovim plugin, 'mini.nvim' module, etc.) and it "clicks". Needed to practice only about couple of hours to feel comfortable.

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