new vim config

bartman
2024-02-03

I started from scratch and built up a new Neovim config.

Based on this video series:

video by typecraft (thank you)

Pushed to github here: https://github.com/bartman/nvim-config

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So this is what it looks like…

You’ll probably have to install some tools…

1sudo apt install clang clangd npm

You will need neovim 0.10, or at least 0.9 for some of these plugins.

I found building it from source pretty easy on Debian/Ubuntu.

1sudo apt install libgettextpo-dev gettext
2git clone https://github.com/neovim/neovim
3cd neovim
4mkdir -p ~/usr
5make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/usr/neovim
6make install

Note that I installed things in ~/usr/neovim, which means it needs to go in the PATH. Alternatively you can make aliases for them in your ~/.bashrc (or whatever shell you use).

1alias vim=~/usr/neovim/nvim
2alias vi=~/usr/neovim/nvim
3alias vimdiff='~/usr/neovim/nvim -d'

Move the old config out of the way, if you have one…

1mv ~/.config/nvim ~/.config/nvim.old

Then copy over the files under config/nvim…

1mkdir -p ~/.config/nvim/
2cp -r config/nvim/* ~/.config/nvim/

Start things up…

1nvim

At this point you can run

:Lazy to check on the nvim packages being installed (q to close)
:Mason to check on diagnostic tools being installed (q to close)

You can use :WhichKey to browse through the keyboard shortcuts interactively.

You can also use the ,fk shortcut to bring up Telescope keymap browser.

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