Re: Factor

Neovim is a modern implementation of a vim-like editor. It started as a refactor, but “not a rewrite but a continuation and extension of Vim”. It does have some ability to load plugins built in Vimscript, but most new plugins seem to be written using the Lua programming language.

Factor has many different editor integrations supporting various text editors as well as plugins for some that provide additional features. One of these is the factor.vim plugin for Vim, which I happen to use frequently.

In the Big Omarchy 2.0 Tour, DHH presents about the Omarchy customization of Linux. I noticed that they have a pretty nice Neovim integration, particularly with the system themes. It turns out to be based somewhat on the Lazyvim system.

In any event, I wondered about how easy it would be to make a Neovim plugin for Factor. It isn’t fully necessary as there is support for Vimscript plugins and the Factor one works pretty well out of the box. However, I thought I’d ask Claude Code to go off and YOLO an implementation based on the existing one. Thankfully this was not a FAFO moment, and after a few cycles it came back with something that mostly works!

This is available in the factor.nvim repository and should be pretty easy to integrate into your Neovim setup. Perhaps give it a try and see what you think? I’ve been using it and it seems to work pretty well.