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My heart is with vim but I switched to emacs as I love orgmode too much for note taking. I tried a few vim orgmode plugins but they seemed quite flakey even though I only really use orgmode for outlining. Excuse my ignorance but could all this LSP/Lua stuff allow neovim to take over from emacs?

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I’d say cautiously maybe. Using lua to me seems like it could open doors for neovim that before we’re either not possible or very complicated to do with vimscript.

Neovim doesn’t have such incredible and almost ridiculous power to change itself like emacs does with elisp since vim is still not written in lua, lua is just used to access its api, but that api is quite extensive. So, maybe? Hopefully?

And if you really want Lisp in Neovim, you can use the Aniseed framework to write your plugins and scripts in Fennel.

Thanks for pointing out Fennel! every since I learned a little of elisp I really enjoyed the experience but common lisp seems like a beast to big to take on, clojure run on java and tbh I'm prejudiced against it... but fennel is just a simple lisp that runs on lua with no overhead? now that's something I can get behind!

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