--- title: What are some of your must-have Neovim customizations? description: Discover must-have Neovim customizations, plugins, and 'stock' configuration changes that can enhance your editing experience. canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-are-some-of-your-must-have-neovim-customizations--kr8uvrdbh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What are some of your must-have Neovim customizations? | daily.dev og:description: Discover must-have Neovim customizations, plugins, and 'stock' configuration changes that can enhance your editing experience. og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-are-some-of-your-must-have-neovim-customizations--kr8uvrdbh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/kr8uVRdBh.png og:image:alt: What are some of your must-have Neovim customizations? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What are some of your must-have Neovim customizations? **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 1 min read · 3 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Discover must-have Neovim customizations, plugins, and 'stock' configuration changes that can enhance your editing experience. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ghost** · 0 upvotes > I've been trying to get more into using Vim's native features over plugins whenever possible, but when I'm using standard vim, one feature I constantly find myself missing is nvim-surround, oddly enough. But let me find out there's some way to do the same in Vim...god, it's always just a skill issue, isn't it? --- Tags: [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#vim](https://daily.dev/tags/vim) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-are-some-of-your-must-have-neovim-customizations--kr8uvrdbh) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"What are some of your must-have Neovim customizations?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-are-some-of-your-must-have-neovim-customizations--kr8uvrdbh","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-are-some-of-your-must-have-neovim-customizations--kr8uvrdbh"},"datePublished":"2024-04-24T13:59:25.034Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T09:19:01.209Z","description":"Discover must-have Neovim customizations, plugins, and 'stock' configuration changes that can enhance your editing experience.","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VDukGCjf--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2002","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VDukGCjf--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2002","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Lobsters","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Lobsters","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--tl8v_Fku--/f_auto,t_logo/v1698841318/logos/lobste.jpg","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters"},"commentCount":1,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-are-some-of-your-must-have-neovim-customizations--kr8uvrdbh","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}],"keywords":"devtools,vim","timeRequired":"PT1M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Lobsters","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"What are some of your must-have Neovim customizations?"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-are-some-of-your-must-have-neovim-customizations--kr8uvrdbh","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"I’ve been trying to get more into using Vim’s native features over plugins whenever possible, but when I’m using standard vim, one feature I constantly find myself missing is nvim-surround, oddly enough. 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