My configs for neovim.

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Installation

Clone the project at ~/.config/nvim/ git clone git@github.com:TheKhanj/nvim.git ~/.config/nvim

Cd into the directory ~/.config/nvim cd ~/.config/nvim

Initialize and update git submodules

git submodule init
git submodule update

Install neovim, you'd probably prefer latest version of neovim which is 0.9. Crappy distros like ubuntu do not have latest version in their repository, for those distros just follow the official guide. Install it by extracting tar ball.

Run neovim by nvim.

For running commands in neovim I've mapped ; to :, so instead of pressing : you should press ; to go to command line mode.

Installing packages

I use a package manager called packer for managing my packages. At first you wanna install all packages by going to command line mode and running PackerInstall.

Lsp

LSP is a language server protocol invented by microsoft for supporting features like go to definition and those stuff. It's basically an interface, different languages implement their own version of that interface. It's most common reason that is preventing people from using vim. But they simply don't know that there's a solution.

For LSP support I use coc plugin. It should be noted that for it to work properly nodejs and yarn package manager should be installed on your system. You can install them by nvm or volta. I prefer volta personally cause it's written in Rust and is much snappier.

After you run PackerInstall packer tries to run yarn install in coc's directory. Sometimes this fails. You might want to run it manually by going to directory ~/.local/share/nvim/site/pack/packer/start/coc.nvim and running yarn install manually.

For supporting different languages you just need to install the language server for that language. Coc provides an easy command to do that but you can totally install it globally on your system or in any other way that you want. Language servers are just RPC servers that you run them on a codebase and you can ask different requests about your codebase from them. PHPStorm and all other crappy IDEs use them as well in background.

For example to install install intelephense language server for php you should run the following command. CocInstall coc-phpls

I prefer to have psalm language server on my php code as well, but due to the fact that the language server is under heavy development right now I prefer to clone it somewhere in my filesystem and always use the up to date master branch. I just symlink psalm binary to the location of the cloned project.

Treesitter

Treesitter is an incremental parsing system for languages. The most simple use case of it in neovim is to provide color highlighting. But it's worth noting that some great other stuff can be done with it too.

For different languages you can install it's treesitter definition by running following command. TSInstall php

Telescope

Telescope is my fuzzy finder. It's written by lovely 😍TJ. He is a core neovim developer. He has an awesome youtube channel BTW.

For basic fuzzy finding press \ + t + f. You can find other mappings in configs.

Nvim-tree

Nvim tree is basically my file manager. To trigger it press <ctrl> + \

Formatter

I use this as my formatter. To trigger it just press \ + a.

Fugitive

It's a minimal plugin for working with git cli inside vim. It's awesome.

Tmux

I use tmux, this plugin helps me to navigate between vim's windows and tmux panes seamlessly.

Firenvim

It's nothing important, just a plugin to have vim inside browsers too.

Twig

Syntax highlighter for twig files.