[gpanders]

>I've really tried to move from vim to neovim for a long time and spent many hours trying to configure it to behave like vim

Could you elaborate on this? Out of the box, Neovim and Vim are extremely similar, almost identical to a first approximation (Neovim has different defaults for some options than Vim, but that's about it). The two start to diverge dramatically when you begin writing or using plugins as the extensibility/API model is quite different between the two, but I am very surprised to hear you had difficulty trying to make Neovim behave like Vim.