I can't seem to add anything to lispwords in my neovim's init.vim. Shouldn't setlocal lispwords+=foo work?

Do you use swapfiles?

Nope

You might without realising

Aren't they on by default?

I think I have mine relocated to ~ to avoid file watcher issues

set directory=~/.vim/tmp          " Directory for swap/temp files
set nobackup                      " Don't create backup files
set nowb                          " Don't create write backups
set noswapfile                    " Don't create swap files

I’ve been getting annoyed by there constantly being some swapfile despite me not exiting vim in any strange way

Are there any cool hacks to enable backgrounding/foregrounding without needing to remember if there’s already a vim running in the background?

I've been using the above settings in vim for years (and nvim for about a year), and have never had any issues. To be fair, though, I don't <C-z> vim often.

Backup files have saved my ass way too many times to disable them

@dominicm In what situations have they helped you?

When my machine has crashed, being able to recover was helpful.

Sometimes it was missing a few characters, but better than nothing.

any recommended plugins to convince vim to autoclose parens, quotes and the like?

I use https://github.com/jiangmiao/auto-pairs

i use https://github.com/jiangmiao/auto-pairs worth noting that it (apparently, according to a comment i left in my vimrc 😄 ) doesn't play nice with parinfer, so i disabled it for lisp:

" disable auto-pairs for lisp -- it interferes with parinfer
au Filetype lisp,scheme,clojure,lfe let b:AutoPairs = {}

@clojurians-slack100 jinx!

vim does auto-close my parens, brackets and curly braces when i'm editing lisp code, somehow i'm thinking that vim-sexp or parinfer are doing that

vim-sexp does this