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

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

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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

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.

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!

Merry Christmas from your favorite text editor!

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...

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...

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

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

A dedicated video is now available: youtu.be/CHq9bUuqo6k

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

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

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...

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

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...

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

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

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....

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.

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-...

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

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.

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

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.

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).

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:

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! https://github.com/echasnovski/mini.surround #Neovim

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。

#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!

'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:

@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...

#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...

'mini.nvim' got version 0.15.0 release: github.com/echasnovski/... It is mostly about new 'mini.snippets' module (out of its beta-testing phase) and various small improvements here and there. #neovim

'mini.nvim' is trending on GitHub right now. That's huge! Thank you all for your support ❤️

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

#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...

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.

yup this(2024) was the year, I rewrote my whole config by using mini.nvim, i wanted simple plugins that just did one task really well and mini plugins just do that Really thank you for all the amazing work you have done config link for anyone: github.com/Rishabh67200...

I would like to congratulate everybody with the upcoming new year and wish that it will be better than 2024. Most of my free time I dedicate to github.com/echasnovski/... #neovim development. Let's revisit its progress in 2024.

Happy New Year, everybody! Let's hope that next year will bring us more awesome features and less broken configs! Here is a small thread with #neovim development stats in 2024.

I've finally released 'mini.snippets'. It was an abnormally long development period (for various reasons), but the module is finally out. A link to the Reddit announcement: www.reddit.com/r/neovim/com...