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TL;DR Open cargo info in Vim or neovim for the package under the cursor using these 4 lines of Lua. Cargo info Rust 1.82 was released a couple of days ago. It’s packed with improvements, but one in particular caught my eye. Cargo now has a info sub-command. It displays details about a package in the registry from the comfort of your terminal. Here is an example: $ cargo info lazy_static lazy_static #macro #lazy #static A macro for declaring lazily evaluated statics in Rust. version: 1.5.0 license: MIT OR Apache-2.0 rust-version: unknown documentation: https://docs.rs/lazy_static repository: https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/lazy-static.rs crates.io: https://crates.io/crates/lazy_static/1.5.0 features: spin = [dep:spin] spin_no_std = [spin] note: to see how you depend on lazy_static, run `cargo tree --invert --package lazy_static@1.5.0` Vim and neovim generally composes well with other terminal tools. So how can we easily integrate cargo info and neovim? ...

TL;DR LuaSnip is fast and doesn’t have to be complicated. Give it a try! Even if that article shows how LuaSnip shines, I have great respect for the work that has gone into UltiSnips. It is still a reliable, reasonably fast plugin given the constraint it operates in (in particular, Vim compatibility requires a fair amount of Vimscript). I’ve written this article shortly after trying LuaSnip and I’m still very much evaluating it. ...

2023-05-20: Updated to account for the features of NeoVim 0.9 and obsolete plugins You have found a (Neo)Vim plugin that you want to fiddle with, either to contribute changes upstream or for your own use. Sounds familiar? Here are some tips and tricks I use for my NeoVim plugin development. The aim of these small tricks is to iterate faster on changes, by loading your changes in a live NeoVim instance as quickly as possible. ...