If you do that, can you only use plugins written in lua?

You can use all the plugins

So you can configure plugins written in pure vimscript using lua?

yes

neovim exposes a lua api that allows for running vimscript code, in addition to loading it natively

You can go further and switch to Fennel 🙂 I did this and I am happy now https://www.reddit.com/r/nvim/comments/u28v8n/one_more_nvim_config_with_fennel_i_am_glad_i/

The most benifit I get from the ability to change config with repl-like approach with https://github.com/Olical/aniseed

I looked into that! Seemed a little more complicated than just transitioning over 1-to-1, so I decided to take it one step at a time

Yes, I had some problems translating all the samples from the readmes of plugins 🙂

I've been using fennel (as a first time Neovim user) and configured a number of plugins, with the help of other repos mentioned in the readme I'm still figuring out which of the very many plugins I actually need 🙂 https://github.com/practicalli/neovim-config-redux

@U05254DQM your bootstrapping init.lua looks like exactly what I've been searching for to move my own set up to fennel. Thanks for sharing!

Glad its useful. I picked up much of the more interesting parts of the repository from several peoples repos. Feel free to use what ever you find useful

I'm curious whether anyone with a mostly Lua/fennel config misses the documentation available on VimL files or not? I've migrated to fennel (and back) twice because I miss having docs for configuration vars, options, etc., a quick K away! Did I miss something? Is there a way of having something similar with fennel, or at least Lua?

@U08GNK32T https://github.com/PaterJason/cmp-conjure

and

"\"ayaw:help <C-r>a<CR>"

cmp I don't think I need to explain, with this you have function suggestion in fennel

the latter writes the current word to register a, and later calls help for that word

https://asciinema.org/a/JAvHwrM3EkG0rNtmCaHpGuDTh

will give it a try, thank you!