mattyoung101 / nvim-setup

neovim config (upstreamed into dotfiles instead - use that)

Neovim Setup

Matt's configuration for neovim 0.9.0.

Built off Ethan's vim config with some changes to my liking and explicit support for Linux, plus a whole lot more plugins (I love plugins!) - so do expect longer boot times.

Big thanks again to Ethan for the original config and getting me into Neovim.

There used to be a list of plugins/themes here, but there's so many now it's gotten out of hand. I guess RTFL (read the flipping Lua!!!!!).

Installation

This repo is mainly managed as a submodule through the dotfiles repo. You should clone that repo, and edit the config/nvim repo directly as a submodule. Then follow the instructions there to install the dotfiles. Once that's done:

1. Install the latest stable Neovim (currently 0.9.0 as of 27 May 2023).
2. (If using nvm.fish): Edit ~/.config/fish/config.fish to source nvm on startup: nvm -s use latest
3. On Cinnamon, the default terminal font is DejaVu Sans Mono (even though the font is just listed as "Monospace"). You can prove this to yourself by doing fc-match monospace. You will need to install the NerdFont patch for this so that the icons show: https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads
4. Change the monospace font in System Settings to the DejaVu Sans Mono Nerd font.
5. Install LazyGit, which may require installing go
6. You should also have a gcc/clang and the latest stable rust (probably with rustup) on your system
7. Also install fzf and ripgrep

Wishlist (plugins to be added and changes to make)

OUTDATED

• Better spelling
  • Fix this: the word "Ethan" is marked as valid, but "Ethan's" (with the apostrophe s) is invalid. We should ignore words that
  • Fully uppercase words (i.e. acronyms) should be ignored
• Telescope search results should be centred on screen when you navigate to them
• Pressing enter in a list of Markdown items should auto-insert a "-" on the next line
• Filetree should auto refresh git status (it doesn't seem to reload when git status or even files in directory are changed atm)
• LSP inlay hints (this is like how CLion will annotate the parameters of function calls in grey text)
  • Requires bleeding edge neovim: https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/115uoft/comment/jov7vi7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
  • https://github.com/lvimuser/lsp-inlayhints.nvim
  • https://github.com/simrat39/inlay-hints.nvim
• Each variable should get a unique colour (like what CLion calls "semantic highlighting", which is separate from LSP semantic highlighting). This will require a custom plugin or custom Lua.

Cheatsheet

Common operations I forget:

• Comment out a section of code: visual select, g, c
• Search in current buffer: space, slash
• Quit everything: :qa and :wqa
• Find a file: space, s, f
• Cancel autocomplete: Ctrl+E
• Create a new file in neotree: a (read documentation)
• Rename a file in neotree: r
• Delete a word (like ctrl+bkspce): ctrl+w
• Go to beginning of line: ^ (shift 6)
• Apply fix: space, c, a
• Yank whole document: ggyG
• Go to beginning: gg
• Go to end: shift g