My Neovim configuration

Motivation

After doing my first steps with https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim, I decided to roll my own, custom, "lightweight" Neovim configuration in order to better understand Neovim and its configuration/customization, package managers, LSP etc. and have "my own" config that only includes things I really need.

Installation

1. Install Neovim 0.9.x
2. Install OS dependencies documented in init.lua
3. Clone this Git repository to ~/.config/nvim

Finishing touches

• Install Treesitter comment parser (to highlight FIXME:/NOTE:/TODO:/XXX:) with :TSInstall comment
• Create a $HOME/.ignore file and add big, useless directories to it, so Telescope/ripgrep/fd can ignore those. Details in lua/weeheavy/plugins/telescope-fzf-native.lua

Speed

Output from lazy.nvim profiling (:Lazy, then P):

Startuptime: 33.68ms

Based on the actual CPU time of the Neovim process till UIEnter.
This is more accurate than `nvim --startuptime`.
  LazyStart 10.87ms
  LazyDone  31.22ms (+20.35ms)
  UIEnter   33.68ms (+2.45ms)

Plugins

Name	Purpose	URL
lazy.nvim	Package manager	https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim
telescope.nvim	Find, Filter, Preview, Pick	https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim
telescope-fzf-native.nvim	Fuzzy finder for Telescope	https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope-fzf-native.nvim
nvim-treesitter	Parser/syntax highlighting	https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter
nvim-treesitter-context	Shows current line context	https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter-context
nvim-treesitter-textobjects	?	https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter-textobjects
vim-sleuth	Heuristically set tab/shift mode	https://github.com/tpope/vim-sleuth
nightfox.nvim	Theme with treesitter/lsp support	https://github.com/EdenEast/nightfox.nvim
lualine.nvim	Status line	https://github.com/nvim-lualine/lualine.nvim
nvim-web-devicons	filetype glyphs (icons) for plugins	https://github.com/nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons
which-key.nvim	Shows contextual key bindings	https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim

Command cheat sheet

Vim/Neovim

Basics

• Space is the leader key and shows key combinations thanks to which-key.nvim

Plugin fiddling/changes

• :so Source file
• :checkhealth <pluginname> check for problems with plugin. Use :checkhealth to check base and all plugins

Navigation

• Ctrl+t to open a file in e.g. a Telescope finder in a new buffer
• gt or gT to navigate open buffers
• Ctrl+wq close window
• Ctrl+ws split window horizontally
• Ctrl+wv split window vertically
• Ctrl+<h/j/k/l> switch between split windows

Lazy

• :Lazy to show the package manager UI

Telescope

Telescope file search

• Ctrl+n scroll down (next) file list
• Ctrl+p scroll up (previous) file list
• Ctrl+d scroll down in preview
• Ctrl+u scroll up in preview

Treesitter

• :TSUpdate update all parsers
• :TSModuleInfo show installed parsers

Open issues/TODOs

• Git handling in general
• Directory browsing with Telescope
• Solution to show short Git logs (potentially without fugitive)
• Hinting for trailing spaces (EOL) and blank space on line
• LSP setup/config (mason?), consume https://blog.pabuisson.com/2022/08/neovim-modern-features-treesitter-and-lsp/