Options and Keymappings
Neovim config folder
Where is my Neovim config? 🤔
Create nvim config folder
mkdir ~/.config/nvim
init.vim file for nvim config
touch ~/.config/nvim/init.vim
Basic options
Where is my Neovim config options file and folder? 🤔
Create general folder and setting.vim file for basic options
mkdir ~/.config/nvim/general
touch ~/.config/nvim/general/settings.vim
Following to settings.vim
set iskeyword+=- " treat dash separated words as a word text object"
set formatoptions-=cro " Stop newline continution of comments
syntax enable " Enables syntax highlighing
set hidden " Required to keep multiple buffers open multiple buffers
set nowrap " Display long lines as just one line
set whichwrap+=<,>,[,],h,l
set encoding=utf-8 " The encoding displayed
set pumheight=10 " Makes popup menu smaller
set fileencoding=utf-8 " The encoding written to file
set ruler " Show the cursor position all the time
set cmdheight=2 " More space for displaying messages
set mouse=a " Enable your mouse
set splitbelow " Horizontal splits will automatically be below
set splitright " Vertical splits will automatically be to the right
set t_Co=256 " Support 256 colors
set conceallevel=0 " So that I can see `` in markdown files
set tabstop=2 " Insert 2 spaces for a tab
set shiftwidth=2 " Change the number of space characters inserted for indentation
set smarttab " Makes tabbing smarter will realize you have 2 vs 4
set expandtab " Converts tabs to spaces
set smartindent " Makes indenting smart
set autoindent " Good auto indent
set laststatus=2 " Always display the status line
set number " Line numbers
set cursorline " Enable highlighting of the current line
set background=dark " tell vim what the background color looks like
set showtabline=2 " Always show tabs
set noshowmode " We don't need to see things like -- INSERT -- anymore
set nobackup " This is recommended by coc
set nowritebackup " This is recommended by coc
set shortmess+=c " Don't pass messages to |ins-completion-menu|.
set signcolumn=yes " Always show the signcolumn, otherwise it would shift the text each time
set updatetime=300 " Faster completion
"set timeoutlen=100 " By default timeoutlen is 1000 ms
set clipboard=unnamedplus " Copy paste between vim and everything else
set incsearch
Source in init.vim
source $HOME/.config/nvim/general/settings.vim
Basic keymappings
Create keys folder and mappings.vim file for keymappings
mkdir ~/.config/nvim/keys
touch ~/.config/nvim/keys/mappings.vim
Following to mappings.vim
" resize windows w/ ctrl&arrow keys
nnoremap <silent> <C-Down> :resize -1<CR>
nnoremap <silent> <C-Up> :resize +1<CR>
nnoremap <silent> <C-Right> :vertical resize -2<CR>
nnoremap <silent> <C-Left> :vertical resize +2<CR>
" I hate escape more than anything else
inoremap jk <Esc>
inoremap kj <Esc>
" TAB in general mode will move to text buffer
nnoremap <TAB> :bnext<CR>
" SHIFT-TAB will go back
nnoremap <S-TAB> :bprevious<CR>
" Better tabbing
vnoremap < <gv
vnoremap > >gv
" Better window navigation
nnoremap <C-h> <C-w>h
nnoremap <C-j> <C-w>j
nnoremap <C-k> <C-w>k
nnoremap <C-l> <C-w>l
Source in init.vim
source $HOME/.config/nvim/keys/mappings.vim
Run all healthchecks
Open nvim and enter the following command
:checkhealth
What is checkhealt in Neovim 🤔 here
Install pynvim for python support
pip install pynvim
Install neovim for nodejs support
npm i -g neovim