Evgeni Chasnovski

Today is a fifth anniversary of 'mini.nvim'! And as it happens, third anniversary of 'mini.pick' and first one of MiniMax! Here is a blog post with my reflections about this five year period: nvim-mini.org/blog/2026-10... . It also shows new "main" plugin color scheme and logos. Time flies.

'mini.nvim' now has a module for improved statuscolumn (area with line numbers, signs, fold indicators): 'mini.statuscolumn'. Release blog post: nvim-mini.org/blog/2026-08... #neovim

'mini.nvim' got 0.18.0 release: new featureful module to ask user for input, 'mini.deps' development freeze, 'mini.files' LSP integration, and a lot of small updates to existing modules. What a good way to celebrate June solstice! Release blog post: nvim-mini.org/blog/2026-06...

I am happy to announce the release of 'mini.input' - a module of 'mini.nvim' that makes asking for user input both more functional and visually pleasant. 'mini.nvim' now crossed two milestones: 45+ modules and 5000+ tests. Release blog post: nvim-mini.org/blog/2026-06...

#neovim repository has reached 100K GitHub stars. Thank you all for the support 🙏

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

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...

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

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

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.

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

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.

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。