My Neovim Config

Installation

• option 1 (best dev experience and easiest): just use the deb image and install using either sudo apt install <deb file> or dpk install .... something
• option 2: download the appimage then copy the binary to one of the $PATHs
• periodically run checkhealth
• location nvim ~/.config/nvim/

Requirements

• nvim >= 0.9.1 (used 0.8.3 previously)
• git

OS-level dependencies

• ripgrep rg
• fd for finding files
• fzf

(For a nice development environment)

• lazygit
• delta for lazygit and git diff viewers
• nerd fonts
• nvm for node version management
• virtualenv
• pnpm
• bat (telescope file previews)
• glow (md file previews)
• install locate
• fd

Configuration (i.e. things you might need to do manually after installing)

• for DAP, you might have to manually type the location of some of the adapters, e.g. for python
  • see dap.adapters.python under debugging.lua
• make sure your folder structure matches the repos the plugins will be setting up (e.g. telescope repo, telescope searching for notes, etc.)
• also check folder structure against projections-nvim.lua and telescope.
• install your DAP adapters and ensure the paths match the locations @ debugging.lua

Common issues

• Installing black, isort and pylint can sometimes result in unable to create python3 venv environment. Check this stackoverflow post

• ;5u appearing when i try to exit a terminal: this happens when you press Ctrl+Enter (sometimes i forget that i'm actually holding ctrl because of ctrl+space zsh autocomplete)

• pylint false positives about import error: probably has to do with NULL LS being confused about which pylint installation to use, when pylint is installed from mason, it attempts to use that, and as a result, it may try to resolve import dependencies from where the global mason pylint package is installed.

  • FIX: under mason.lua, comment out the part where pylint is under null_ls's ensure_installed packages
  • then simply install pylint inside the venv of your project (seems to work lol idk why)

some mason/null ls packages failing to install

check that you have unzip installed (particularly for WSL) spawn: unzip failed with exit code..... unzip not executable

Windows/WSL (check notes md files)

includes:

• install zsh first
• main installation video
• chsh -s $(which zsh) to change the default shell
• remaps for windows terminal to enable common keymaps. (like s-space and c-s-p)

Other things you'll need to config/install manually

• search how to sync clipboard with windows if using WSL
• comment using c-/ not working
• markdown preview (not opening browser if using WSL- prob because the browser is hardcoded to a linux path)

Windows Setup

• config is located at $Appdata/Local/nvim (create a folder is none yet)
• mklink /D link "D:\path\to\neovim\config" (create symlink from your neovim config (in this case, located @ drive D, to where the neovim config should be located(at the appdata folder) ))
• install fzf, rg, fd
• install zig using chocolatey (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75587679/neovim-treesitter-returning-no-c-complier-error), without gcc or zig, treesitter fails to install things.

Remaps (Windows Neovim (WSL))

To enable shift+space as your escape key for the windows terminal

    "actions":
    [
        {
            ...
        },
	{
            "command": {
	        "action" : "sendInput",
	    	"input": "\u001b"
	    },
            "keys": "shift+space"
        }
    ],

To enable ctrl+shift+p to open telescope key maps

1. remap windows terminal's command palette to ctrl+alt+p
2. remove this line inside the JSON file

        {
            "command": "unbound",
            "keys": "ctrl+shift+p"
        },

3. add this line

{
  "command": {
    "action": "sendInput",
    "input": "\u001b[80;5u"
  },
  "keys": "ctrl+shift+p"
}

Note: you can't write \x1b, apparently it's not valid JSON, you have to use /u001b source