This repository holds my lazy neovim configuration. That means the plguins are divided into modular files each configuring a set of functionalities that are closely related.
This configuration is a direct result of my fascination with the concept of ego depletion and automaticity. In here I have optimized my developing expirience to ensure the quantity of actions I have to conciously perform is minimized by binding them to keys thus relying on muscle memory. The amount of information consumed at once has also been reduced to a minimum, while using features such as blink.cmp signature help to maximize free working memory.
Note: I am in no way a psychologist and these are topics I have only recenly named which have long resided as a gut feeling in me. Thank you to Math Academy for introducing me to the formal terms.
Because I use lazy and mason, installation of plugins and subsequently LSPs is performed automatically at startup. Despite that, various tooling installed on the system is needed. The following is a non-exhaustive list, you are encouraged to find missing dependencies via :checkhealth.
- git - for
lazy.nvimto install dependencies - python
- node
- cargo
- 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.
- Zen Mode via zen-mode.nvim and twilight
- 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 ASCII art at the top and the signature help/zen mode demo, 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