Chilivim

Welcome to my fork of the Neovim-from-scratch repository, originally created and maintained by Christian Chiarulli. This repository is a tribute to his great work, and I would like to give him special recognition for his contributions to the Neovim community.

When I first came across LunarVim, I was impressed with its comprehensive configuration and how it simplified the process of setting up Neovim. Through Christian's work, I learned about Neovim, the Lua programming language, and how to create a configuration that is understandable and easy to work with.

Since forking the repository, I have added more functionalities, modularized the code, and migrated the plugin manager from Packer to Lazy. Additionally, I am working on improving the user interface to make it look and function more like an IDE. With these changes, I hope to provide an even better development experience for myself and other users.

Thank you for visiting my repository, and I hope that my contributions will help you in your development journey.

The install config of my fork is almost identical to Christian's, so I have quoted his instructions with necessary updates to make it work with my repository. To get started with my fork, please follow these instructions:

Install Config

Install Neovim v0.8.0 and make sure that it's in your system path.

Clone the repository into the correct location (NOTE: make a backup your current nvim directory if you want to keep it).

git clone https://github.com/sebasvalencia726/chilivim.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.

NOTE Lazy is a plugin manager that I have incorporated into my fork to install and update plugins. To add new plugins, you simply need to add them to the /lua/plugins/init.lua file. Lazy will automatically install the plugins when you exit and reopen Neovim. For any further plugin configuration, you can create your own config file in the /lua/user/ directory to keep the configuration modularized.

Finally, it's worth noting that the additional installation steps for this configuration are the same as those in Christian's original repository. Therefore, I will simply quote his instructions:

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

• On mac pbcopy should be builtin

• On Ubuntu

  sudo apt install xsel
  

• On Arch Linux

  sudo pacman -S xsel
  

• Wayland users

  wl-clipboard

Next we need to install python support (node is optional)

• Neovim python support

  pip install pynvim
  

• Neovim node support

  npm i -g neovim
  

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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