Configuration and Plugins

Configuring the editor: .vimrc versus init.vim and init.lua, :set options, remapping with map and noremap around a leader key, plugin managers such as vim-plug and lazy.nvim, Neovim's LSP integration, and colorschemes and statuslines. Interviewers ask because a config you can explain and reproduce on a fresh machine is what separates a setup from a pile of copied snippets.