Native Neovim tools

Blak’s baseline is stable Neovim 0.12+. The following features ship with Neovim and need no downloaded plugin. Check :version and :help news for the capabilities of your installed release.

Undo history

Load the bundled undo-tree viewer for the current session:

:packadd nvim.undotree
:Undotree

The viewer opens a split; moving through its entries changes the source buffer’s undo state. Run :Undotree again to close it. Blak already enables persistent undo. See Neovim’s undo-tree plugin reference.

Compare files or directories

:packadd nvim.difftool
:DiffTool path/to/old path/to/new

This opens Neovim’s bundled comparison UI. Use it for file or directory comparisons without installing another diff plugin. See the native difftool reference.

Both packages stay opt-in. To load one every startup, put its vim.cmd.packadd call in hooks.after. Remove that call and restart to return to the default.

LSP recovery and shortcuts

Use native commands to restart attached clients or control a configured server:

:lsp restart
:lsp enable tsc
:lsp disable tsc

Session enable/disable choices do not change user.lua or saved extras. :BlakKeys includes described native defaults such as grn for rename and grt for type definition, alongside Blak’s existing shortcuts. The LSP reference covers native commands and mappings.

Try native LSP completion

Blink remains Blak’s default. For a smaller native completion workflow, merge this into user.lua, keeping your existing hooks and plugin specs:

return {
  plugins = {
    specs = { { "saghen/blink.cmp", enabled = false } },
  },
  hooks = {
    after = function()
      vim.opt.completeopt = { "menu", "menuone", "noselect", "popup" }
      vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("LspAttach", {
        group = vim.api.nvim_create_augroup("UserNativeCompletion", { clear = true }),
        callback = function(event)
          local client = vim.lsp.get_client_by_id(event.data.client_id)
          if client and client:supports_method("textDocument/completion", event.buf) then
            vim.lsp.completion.enable(true, client.id, event.buf, { autotrigger = true })
          end
        end,
      })
    end,
  },
}

Restart after applying this. Completion opens on the server’s trigger characters; <C-x><C-o> requests it explicitly. Use <C-n>/<C-p> to move and <C-y> to accept. This recipe supplies native LSP completion, with different sources, matching, and bracket behavior from Blink. See vim.lsp.completion.

Remove the recipe and restart to restore Blink. For optional plugins affected by that change, run :Lazy sync as usual.

Why the package manager stays

Neovim 0.12 ships vim.pack; its official documentation still labels it experimental. Blak’s current Lazy setup provides deferred loading, extra plugin specifications, user overrides, and tested updates and rollback. A native backend needs to preserve those guarantees before becoming a supported choice. Stable updates retain the current backend.