NVIM Config

My ever changing Neovim configuration

Installation

git clone https://github.com/TheBlob42/nvim-config.git ~/.config/nvim

Dependencies

Requires Neovim version 0.12.0 (nightly)

Some functionality is tailored towards the usage of a Linux operating system

• curl
• NerdFont¹
• ripgrep
• xclip² or xsel²

¹At least version 2.2.2 to include codicons for nvim-dap-ui
²Only relevant on Linux

Optional Dependencies

• translate-shell
• lazygit
• cargo
  • for the parinfer-rust plugin, if not present it will note be loaded
• neovim-remote
  • for using the commit editor of lazygit (see here)
• for validating Jenkinsfiles see the template script in ./lua/user/commands/jenkins.lua

Plugins

In order to install & update plugins alpacka.nvim is being used, check the init.lua file for more details

You can find a collection of very simple custom plugins within the ./lua/user/plugins/ directory. Each file solves one simple problem and can easily be copied over to your own Neovim configuration. Check the ./lua/user/plugins.lua file to see my setup

System Configuration

For local system specific configuration check lua/user/local.lua.sample

There is some preconfigured configuration which is expected by other parts of the configuration (for example the path to your project directory). But you can also add any custom Lua code in their which you consider system specific. The local.lua file is on .gitignore so the system specific settings will not be checked into version control

LSP

Install LSP servers simply via the :Mason command

See the mason.nvim plugin for more information about available options

Depending on the LSP servers you might also need to fulfill additionally dependencies (e.g. java, node)

The following servers have been tested explicitly:

• eclipse.jdt.ls
  • also tested debugging via java-debug & vscode-java-test
• jsonls
• clojure-lsp
• lua-language-server
• gopls
• bash-language-server
  • check shellcheck for linting
• marksman (markdown)

Troubleshooting

Treesitter

If treesitter does not initialize correctly check if you have a proper C compiler installed (more)

Cursor Color

Especially for the light theme the cursor color might be hard to see and read

To control the highlighting of the cursor by Neovim you can add the following to your local.lua file:

vim.opt.guicursor:append{ "a:Cursor" }

Beware that this will only affect the cursor background color. The foreground (font) color is always defined by the terminal. For this reason the setting is not set by default

For kitty check out the cursor_text_color background option in ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf