Neovim From Scratch
| Project Name | Stars | Downloads | Repos Using This | Packages Using This | Most Recent Commit | Total Releases | Latest Release | Open Issues | License | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neovim | 64,014 | a day ago | 1,633 | other | Vim Script | |||||
| Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability | ||||||||||
| Coc.nvim | 22,511 |  | 82 | 263 | 5 days ago | 97 | September 19, 2022 | 42 | other | TypeScript |
| Nodejs extension host for vim & neovim, load extensions like VSCode and host language servers. | ||||||||||
| Nvchad | 15,504 | 2 days ago | 2 | August 19, 2021 | 1 | gpl-3.0 | Lua | |||
| An attempt to make neovim cli functional like an IDE while being very beautiful, blazing fast startuptime | ||||||||||
| Lunarvim | 13,709 | 19 hours ago | 81 | gpl-3.0 | Lua | |||||
| 🌙 LunarVim is an IDE layer for Neovim. Completely free and community driven. | ||||||||||
| Telescope.nvim | 9,452 | 2 days ago | 251 | mit | Lua | |||||
| Find, Filter, Preview, Pick. All lua, all the time. | ||||||||||
| Awesome Neovim | 9,439 | 2 days ago | cc0-1.0 | |||||||
| Collections of awesome neovim plugins. | ||||||||||
| Astronvim | 8,246 | 2 days ago | 4 | gpl-3.0 | Lua | |||||
| AstroNvim is an aesthetic and feature-rich neovim config that is extensible and easy to use with a great set of plugins | ||||||||||
| Nvim Lspconfig | 6,994 | a day ago | 44 | apache-2.0 | Lua | |||||
| Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP | ||||||||||
| Nvim Treesitter | 6,442 | 19 hours ago | 309 | apache-2.0 | Scheme | |||||
| Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer | ||||||||||
| Packer.nvim | 5,979 | 7 days ago | 292 | mit | Lua | |||||
| A use-package inspired plugin manager for Neovim. Uses native packages, supports Luarocks dependencies, written in Lua, allows for expressive config | ||||||||||
Neovim from scratch
Update When I initially created this repo I didn't anticipate the amount of breaking changes introduced by the rapidly developing plugin ecosystem. If you'd like to use the same basic config as this one as a base I can also recommend my newer repo: nvim-basic-ide
Another Update All packages are pinned in master so it will remain stable. Branches will be updated eventually (currently broken from branch #7 onwards. Hint: Good opportunity for pull requests!).
This repository and accompanying tutorials outline the building blocks of modern Neovim for your personalized development environment. Each video is associated with a branch so checkout the one you are interested in, you can follow along with this playlist.
General Neovim support is available on our Matrix chat.
Try out this config
This config requires Neovim v0.8.0. Please upgrade if you're on an earlier version of the editor.
Clone the repository into the correct location (make a backup your current nvim directory if you want to keep it).
git clone https://github.com/LunarVim/Neovim-from-scratch.git ~/.config/nvim
Run nvim in your terminal and wait for the plugins to be installed. You will notice treesitter pulling in a bunch of language parsers the next time you open Neovim.
NOTE Mason is used to install and manage LSP servers, DAP servers, linters, and formatters via the :Mason command.
Get healthy
Open nvim and enter the following:
:checkhealth
You'll probably notice you don't have support for copy/paste also that python and node haven't been setup
So let's fix that
First we'll fix copy/paste
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On mac
pbcopyshould be builtin -
On Ubuntu
sudo apt install xsel -
On Arch Linux
sudo pacman -S xsel -
Wayland users
Next we need to install python support (node is optional)
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Neovim python support
pip install pynvim -
Neovim node support
npm i -g neovim
NOTE make sure you have node installed, I recommend a node manager like fnm.
Upgrade to Neovim v0.8.0
Assuming you built from source, cd into the folder where you cloned neovim and run the following commands.
git pull
make distclean && make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
git checkout v0.8.0
sudo make install
nvim -v
The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.
- Edsger W. Dijkstra