vim 2026-11-03

somewhat off-topic but I use lazyvim and have found it too bloated ootb, and given LLM's do such a great job at vim config I'm considering starting with a blank vimrc and building it up from scratch. Anyone gone for this approach...

which part do you find bloated?

the amount of bindings and plugins I don't use.

switching from lazy to the built-in vim.pack is pretty easy, as long as you're not using a ton of the lazy features (such as lazy loading)

cool, I'll take a look 👍

that might help you out

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there's also probably been work since then, i don't know

vim.pack works well with lazy loading still, but it's more manual. Honestly plugins which don't lazy load themselves are annoying. I do have a local copy of vim-sexp that's optimized for startup. Its following the rules, it's just big.

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I pointed the llm to https://nvim-mini.org/MiniMax/configs/nvim-0.13/ and told it that i want a similar structure. Especially at the end of init.lua the later function for lazy loading was very helpful for me

I’ll probably base my setup around mini.nvim and/or https://github.com/folke/snacks.nvim