title	date	id	tags
My neovim setup	2024-05-16T12:16:06+0200	20240516121606	neovim editor configuration README

Neovim setup

This new configuration is written with the help of:

• kickstart.nvim. This is a good project to kickstart a configuration, but then it takes time to understand what it makes, how to use it, and how to modify it.
• Tutoriel : configurer Neovim comme IDE/éditeur de code à partir de zéro. This blog post, in French, helped me a lot to understand better my configuration and to rewrite it.

Requirements

• Neovim > 0.10.
• Ripgrep.
• A nerd font.
• vscode-langservers-extracted. It's mandatory for the JSON LSP.

Structure

• init.lua is the configuration file, with the required includes.
• lua/ is the folder where specific configuration and plugins are.
• lua/core contains the basic configuration:
  • options.lua with the global neovim options.
  • keymaps.lua with the global neovim key mappings.
• lua/config contains the Lazy plugin manager installation and configuration.
• lua/plugins of course contains all other plugins installation and configuration.

Plugins

I won't provide links for each of these plugins as they are easily to be found.

• lazy.nvim as plugins manager.
• plenary to get lua functions used by many plugins.
• Adwaita for the colorscheme.
• which-key.nvim to find out shortkeys.
• nvim-tree as file explorer.
• telescope.nvim for the fuzzy finder interface. It has some specific dependencies:
  • telescope-fzf-native.nvim to get a C implementation of fzf, with improved performances.
  • telescope-luasnip.nvim to search for snippets. LuaSnip is a dependency for nvim-cmp which provides completion.
  • telescope-ag to use Ag or Ripgrep to filter results.
• nvim-web-devicons as a dependency to add icons to the interface, when it is used (file explorer, fuzzy finder).
• treesitter for language grammar support (with treesitter-textobjects as dependency, to improve bloc selection and navigation. It is deactivated for markdown.
• Markdown:
  • vim-pandoc and vim-pandoc-syntax to support the pandoc markdown, nice concealing, easy folding and hard wrap automatic formatting.
  • mkdnflow.nvim to improve links navigation, table formatting, file creation, and so on. It improves also the link concealing.
  • markdown-preview.nvim to provide a live HTML preview.
• Completion with nvim-cmp with the following dependencies:
  • cmp-buffer to get text completion from the current buffer text.
  • cmp-path to get path completion.
  • cmp-cmdline to get vim cmdline completion.
  • LuaSnip to get snippet expansion, with the nvim-cmp source for it: cmp_luasnip.
  • friendly-snippets which adds some user-friendly snippets.
  • cmp-emoji for emoji completion after ':'.
  • lspkind.nvim to add text symbols to spot the type of source completion.
• Language servers:
  • lsp-zero.nvim to ease LSP configuration.
  • nvim-lspconfig to configure LSP support and completion, with dependencies:
    • cmp-nvim-lsp to get LSP results in completion.
    • nvim-lsp-file-operations to add some code actions.
    • fidget.nvim for LSP progress message and neovim notifications.
  • mason.nvim with mason-lspconfig.nvim to install automatically the needed LSP. And also with mason-tool-installer to extend it's package manager capabilities.
  • schemastore.nvim which provides the schemas needed by JSON and YAML validators.
• trouble.nvim to display all trouble messages (LSP, diagnostics, etc.) in a pretty list.
• lazdev.nvim to improve lua_ls configuration.
• vim-fugitive.
• gitsigns.nvim to see changes in the sign column.
• vim-speeddating to increment dates, times, etc.
• vim-surround to improve surroundings management.
• autopairs.nvim.
• Comment.nvim to comment lines and blocs.
• ident-blankline.nvim to improve readability of indentation.
• zen-mode.nvim for a good zen mode.
• toggleterm.nvim to quickly get a terminal. Might find a better one.
• rainbow-csv.nvim to manage CSV files.
• venv-selector.nvim to ease python virtual env.
• vim-grammalecte to get a good grammar checker for French.