docs: Adds a paragraph about lua being a real programming language.

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Aaron 2 weeks ago
parent e947649cb0
commit 16de9cf027

@ -83,6 +83,39 @@ I hope you enjoy your Neovim journey,
P.S. You can delete this when you're done too. It's your config now! :)
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-- One last note before we leave you to play around: Lua is a real programming language.
-- Why is that important? First of all, that you can use all the features of Lua,
-- like variables, conditionals, loops and functions. Secondly, that you can interact with
-- neovim in concise way. The following lines contain two examples that might give you some inspirations.
-- This snippet adds a keymap to open a predefined file in a new tab:
-- local function open_notes()
-- vim.cmd 'tabnew'
-- vim.cmd 'tabnext'
-- local command = 'e' .. '/full_path/to_file' -- '..' is the build in string concatenation
-- vim.cmd(command)
-- end
-- vim.keymap.set('n', '<leader>m', open_notes)
--
-- This is interesting because there are certainly plugins out there
-- that provide this functionallity in a sophisticated manner.
-- But a plugin might change, might not provide the options you like,
-- or you might not use this feature at all. If you do not use it,
-- simply delete this code and you are done. If you like it, you
-- may expand to what you need and nothing else. And if this is to
-- much work, you might end up using the plugin anyway, but based
-- on valid effidence that you like this feature.
--
-- The following snippet loads/executes some lua file when a specific file is opened:
-- if vim.fn.expand("%") == "file.txt" then
-- vim.cmd("so ./additional_config.lua")
-- end
-- One use-case could be a journal where the script.lua automatically moves your cursor
-- to the end of file and inserts the curent date when you open it. (This suggestion is certainly not
-- the easiest example, but that it is possible at all should get your mind racing
-- with possibilities.)
-- Good luck tinkering :)
-- Set <space> as the leader key
-- See `:help mapleader`

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