This repository holds my lazy neovim configuration primarily intended for Arch Linux. Modifications are primarily done via lazy loaded plugins which I have tried to make as modular as possible for both clarity and ease of maintenance.
Good configurations are personal. Mine relies on the concept of ego depletion and assumes any and every impulse conveyed to your brain depletes cognitive ability. Because of this I have reduced the amount of plugins and visual noise to the absolute minimum assuming that each and every tool I use or see needlessly requires more of my mind. This config assumes you will do the vast majority of your tasks in the terminal to take full advantage of muscle memory.
Because I use lazy and mason, installation of plugins and subsequently LSPs is performed automatically on startup. Despite that, we need various tooling installed on the system. The following is a non-exhaustive list, you are encouraged to find missing dependencies via :checkhealth.
- git - for
lazy.nvimto install dependencies - python
- node
- Nerd Font of choice - This allows neovim to display various icons. I chose Droid Sans Mono
- ripgrep - fast grep utility
- fd - file searching utility
After obtaining the dependencies this repo is to be cloned into ~/.config/nvim/
git clone [email protected]:blyedev/nvim-config.git ~/.config/nvim/This config has been known to show errors on first startup so before assuming anything went wrong run nvim a few of times after lazy and mason are done.
- Dashboard via alpha-nvim
- Installation of editor tooling via mason
- LSP configuration via nvim-lspconfig
- Completion via blink.cmp
- Formatting support via conform
- Search via telescope
- Git changes highlighting via gitsigns
- Mappings visualized via which-key
- a few less mission-critical QOL plugins...
Besides this little piece of ASCII art, everything else is just a plain tokyonight theme...
If you find anything that needs improving, do not hesitate to point it out or create a PR.
If you come across an issue, you can first use the :checkhealth command provided by nvim to trouble-shoot yourself. Please read the messages provided by health check carefully.
Keep in mind this is not a plug and play solution. For that I highly recommend LazyVim. If you would like to adopt this config it will most likely require a LOT of documentation reading on your part. Thankfully nearly everything in Neovim is incredibly well documented.
There are way too many people that have contributed to me creating this for me to credit them all but here's a few of the major influences
- TJ DeVries - Neovim core maintainer, objectively biggest neovim youtuber
- Pat aka theepic-dev - a Django legend who convinced me to use neovim. Really recommend his book "Linux for Djangonauts"
- Folke Lemaitre - THE Neovim plugin author, from whom I've "forked" half the files here