Neovim built-in options survey needs your contribution

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Author

Evgeni Chasnovski

Published

November 22, 2022

Hello, Neovim users!

Update from 2022-12-08. Survey is closed. Here is a post with results.

For a long time I have been curious about how other people use built-in Neovim settings. For example, I am almost sure that most of you set termguicolors to leverage modern color schemes, but I have nothing to back it up.

So I decided to make a survey and it needs your contribution! Here is the link to Google form. It lists all steps needed to take part which should take at most 5 minutes of your time. Basically:

You’d need to download and execute my custom script (with this source code) inside your day-to-day Neovim config (needs at least Neovim 0.7.0). It will produce a formatted scratch buffer with all non-default values of built-in options.
Review content for sensible information (paths, etc.).
Copy all lines from created buffer and paste them into a single survey question.
Click “Submit”. That’s it!

It doesn’t require logging into your Google account and won’t track your email address. However, please, submit your results only once. I solely rely on your honesty here.

Other possible interesting questions this survey will help answer:

What Leader key is used the most?
Tabs or spaces?
Absolute, relative, or no line numbers?
Traditional or global statusline?
Permanent tabline or not?
Use persistent undo or not?
showmode or noshowmode?
wrap or nowrap?
And maybe more…

What I plan to do with results: - The summary of results will be released in some way, shape, or form after survey is closed (at least two weeks from now when there is a 24 hours without new entries). It will be announced in this sub. - Possibly use the most commonly set non-default settings to power a Neovim variant, crowd-sourced version of tpope/vim-sensible.

Please, spread a word about this survey to make it more objective. I will consider this survey as passable if at least 100 people will take part. Thanks!