Neovim from scratch

When I initially created this repo I didn't anticipate the amount of breaking changes introduced by the rapidly developing plugin ecosystem. All packages are pinned in master so it will remain stable and you can always follow the videos there if you're getting errors in other branches.

🔍 If you see an error that you can fix here's how 🎉.

Update For a simple IDE that builds on these principles and is under active development, I recommend my newer repo: nvim-basic-ide as well as lunarvim which is mature and fully-featured.

General support is available on our Matrix channels.

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.

This config assumes that you have Nerd Fonts v3.0.0 or higher. If you are using an older version then please update your Nerd Fonts otherwise there will be missing or wrong glyphs

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 v0.9

Assuming you built from source, cd into the folder where you cloned neovim and run the following commands.

git pull
git checkout release-0.9
make distclean && make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
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