I recently asked in the Neovim subreddit if any plugin/distro/core maintainers would be interested in participating in these casual interviews, and HiPhish was kind enough to reach out to share more about the plugin rainbow-delimiters.nvim.

In this video you will not just learn about the plugin, but many other things, like, what’s HiPhish’s OS of choice, the way to manage Neovim plugins not with a package manager but using git submodules, and much more.

Link to the video:

https://youtu.be/e8IHILxKqZs

Donate in ko-fi:

https://ko-fi.com/linkarzu

Timeline:

00:00:00 – rainbow-delimiters.nvim demo

00:05:15 – fork of a different plugin

00:07:37 – change strategy to local

00:09:02 – original plugin didnt use tree-sitter

00:09:30 – downside of tree-sitter support for each lang

00:09:45 – open a PR to support new languages

00:12:20 – do you get a lot of requests for new langs?

00:13:15 – burdain of managing open source repo

00:14:45 – support aspect of open source

00:16:23 – future of the plugin

00:17:46 – how long using neovim

00:19:00 – neovim didn’t start with lua

00:19:55 – why start using vim in the first place

00:24:07 – vim before touch typing

00:26:05 – keyboard keychron k1

00:29:25 – thoughts on split keyboards

00:30:25 – operating system void linux

00:31:55 – running void linux for 5 years

00:32:14 – why not arch

00:32:59 – why left macOS, no updates

00:34:32 – are you forced to use mac in companies?

00:35:45 – thoughts on Windows

00:36:43 – linkarzu switching to linux?

00:38:47 – coworkers understand neovim?

00:40:08 – open source to have control

00:41:23 – screen sharing and neovim?

00:42:38 – thoughts on emacs

00:44:45 – neovim and python

00:46:51 – videogames street of rage 4

00:48:04 – reading books

00:50:31 – librera

00:51:35 – clear cookies to fight doomscrolling

00:53:20 – note taking app neovim

00:54:10 – linux window manager kde plasma bspwm

00:58:05 – x11 wayland hperland

01:00:24 – thoughts on single app on screen?

01:02:00 – monocle mode in bspwm

01:02:35 – terminal alacritty

01:04:55 – thoughts on ghostty

01:07:15 – thoughts on tmux

01:09:30 – own neovim config or distribution

01:12:12 – book practical vim

01:13:10 – how do you know what you don’t know

01:16:00 – nvim-cmp or blink.cmp

01:17:03 – neovim package manager git submodules

01:20:40 – why git submodules

01:21:50 – hiphish blog

01:23:40 – neovim file explorer nerdtree

01:24:00 – neovim colorscheme solarized or selenized

01:24:55 – tool to push to github fugitive.vim

01:26:00 – thoughts on AI

01:29:45 – HTMX and alpine.js

01:33:00 – neovim and javascript coding

01:33:35 – currently learning elixir

01:34:30 – favorite CLI tools

01:35:50 – favorite linux applications

01:36:20 – favorite neovim plugins neotest

01:38:25 – fugitive telescope vim-dirvish vim-win

01:41:00 – hiphish config in dotfiles

01:41:45 – homelab

01:44:25 – install rainbow-delimiters.nvim