Neovim Configuration

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How you can set transparent background is explained in the Wiki

✨ Features

• File explorer with Nvim-tree
• Autocompletion with CMP
• Git integration with Gitsigns and Neogit
• Fuzzy finding with Telescope
• Formatting and Linting with Null-ls
• Language Server Protocol with Native LSP
• Debug Adapter Protocol with Nvim DAP
• Beautiful UI with Catppuccin and Noice.nvim
• Fast code navigation with flash.nvim

⚡️ Requirements

• Neovim >= 0.8.0
• Git >= 2.19.0
• a Nerd Font (optional)

🔠 Used Font

• Cascadia Code - A new monospaced font that includes programming ligatures and is designed to enhance the modern look and feel of the Terminal.

🛠️ Installation

Linux / MacOS (Unix)

Make a backup of your current nvim and shared folder

mv ~/.config/nvim ~/.config/nvim.bak
mv ~/.local/share/nvim ~/.local/share/nvim.bak

Go to your .config folder

cd ~/.config

Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/ilias777/nvim.git

Remove .git folder and add your own repo if you want

rm -rf ~/.config/nvim/.git

Navigate to nvim folder and open init.lua with Neovim

cd nvim
nvim init.lua

📺 Preview installation process

Neovim-Installation.mp4

Notes

If you see the Treesitter installing the parser messages, press Enter to skip these.

At the first time the Command MasonUpdate is not found. Please wait about 2 minutes for the language server installation to finish. When all language servers are installed, restart Neovim.

⚙ Configuration

How to configure Neovim is explained in the Wiki

🔌 Plugins

• Over 70 Plugins preinstalled
• Startuptime ~100ms - ~130ms

Plugins List

Package Manager

• lazy.nvim - A modern plugin manager.

File Explorer

• nvim-tree - A simple and fast file explorer tree.

Plugins for LSP

• nvim-lspconfig - Configurations for the LSP client.
• mason - Install and manage LSP servers.
• mason-lspconfig - Bridge between mason and lsp-ocnfig.
• trouble.nvim - A pretty diagnostics, references, telescope results, quickfix and location list.
• inc-rename.nvim - Incremental LSP rename command.
• nvim-jdtls - Extensions for the built-in LSP support for eclipse.jdt.ls.

Autocompletion

• nvim-cmp - Completion plugin.

Formatter and linter

• null-ls - Language server to inject LSP diagnostics, code actions, and more via Lua.

Colorscheme

• Catppuccin - Warm mid-tone dark theme.

Snippet Engine

• Luasnip - A snippet engine.
• friendly-snippets - Snippets collection for a set of different programming languages.

Tabline and Statusline

• bufferline.nvim - A snazzy buffer line.
• feline.nvim - A minimal, stylish and customizable statusline.

Motion

• cinnamon.nvim - Smooth scrolling for any movement command.
• flash.nvim - Navigate your code with search labels.
• hop.nvim - Jump anywhere in a document.
• nvim-spider - Use the w, e, b motions like a spider.

Git integration

• diffview.nvim - Interface for easily cycling through diffs.
• gitsigns - Git integration: signs, hunk actions, blame, etc.
• neogit - A Magit clone for Neovim

Utils

• align.nvim - Aligning lines.
• cheatsheet.nvim - Searchable cheatsheet.
• focus.nvim - Auto-Focusing and Auto-Resizing Splits/Windows.
• indent-blankline - IndentLine replacement.
• live-command.nvim - Text editing with immediate visual feedback.
• markdown-preview - Preview markdown on your browser.
• multicursors.nvim - A multi cursor plugin.
• noice.nvim - Replaces the UI for messages, cmdline and the popupmenu.
• nvim-autopairs - A minimalist autopairs.
• nvim-colorizer - A high-performance color highlighter.
• nvim-notify - A fancy, configurable, notification manager.
• nvim-surround - A plugin for adding/changing/deleting surrounding delimiter pairs.
• nvim-toggler - Invert text.
• nvim-ufo - Ultra fold with modern looking and performance boosting.
• nvim-web-devicons - Show dev icons.
• sentiment.nvim - Enhanced matchparen.
• ssr.nvim - Treesitter based structural search and replace plugin.
• statuscol.nvim - Configurable 'statuscolumn' with builtin segments and click handlers.
• symbols-outline.nvim - A tree like view for symbols.
• vim-visual-multi - Multiple cursors.
• which-key.nvim - Popup of keybindings.
• zen-mode.nvim - Distraction-free coding.

Treesitter

• nvim-treesitter - Neovim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer.
• nvim-treehopper - Region selection using hints on the abstract syntax tree of a document.
• nvim-treesitter-context - Shows the context of the currently visible buffer contents.
• nvim-treesitter-textobjects - Syntax aware text-objects, select, move, swap, and peek support.
• nvim-treesitter-textsubjects - Location and syntax aware text objects which do what you mean.
• ts-node-action - A framework for executing functional transformations on Tree-sitter nodes.
• ts-playground - View treesitter information directly in Neovim.

Telescope

• telescope.nvim - Find, Filter, Preview, Pick.
• telescope-emoji.nvim - An extension for telescope.nvim that allows you to search emojis 😃.
• telescope-file-browser.nvim - A file browser extension for telescope.nvim.
• telescope-symbols.nvim - Ability of picking symbols and insert them at point.
• telescope-undo.nvim - Visualize your undo tree and fuzzy-search changes in it.

Comments

• Comment.nvim - Smart and powerful comment plugin.
• comment-box.nvim - Clarify and beautify your comments using boxes and lines.
• nvim-comment-frame - Detects the language using treesitter and adds a comment block.
• todo-comments.nvim - Highlight, list and search todo comments in your projects.

Degub Adapter Protocol

• nvim-dap - Debug Adapter Protocol client implementation for Neovim.
• nvim-dap-ui - A UI for nvim-dap.
• nvim-dap-vscode-js - nvim-dap adapter for vscode-js-debug.

Writing

• vimtex - A modern Vim and Neovim filetype and syntax plugin for LaTeX files.

Preinstalled Language Servers

Language Server	Description	Programming Language
cssls	Language services for CSS, LESS and SCSS	CSS
emmet_ls	Emmet support based on LSP	HMLT - CSS
html	Language services for HTML	HTML
jsonls	JSON language service	JSON
jdtls	Java language server	Java
tsserver	TypeScript & JavaScript Language Server	JavaScript
ltex	Grammar checking of various markup languages	LaTex, Markdown
texlab	Language Server Protocol for LaTeX	Latex
lua_ls	A language server that offers Lua language support	Lua
intelephense	PHP language server	PHP
pyright	Static Type Checker for Python	Python
rust_analyzer	Rust compiler	Rust
volar	High-performance Vue language tooling based-on Volar.js	Vue
yamlls	Language Server for YAML Files	YAML