My neovim configuration

This is my neovim configuration.

As I don't particularly care for complex solutions, I went for a simple and self-contained configuration that it is still reasonably complete and modern. I used blink.cmp for completion, enabled features such as GitHub Copilot, (nvim-0.11+) LSP, Treesitter, advanced motion through Hop.nvim, a modern colorscheme, etc.

I think this configuration is reasonably good and very readable/hackable. I am sharing it in case anyone finds it interesting.

Installation

The installation is not terribly complicated, but not super straightforward either. First, make sure that you have installed all the dependencies (neovim 0.11+, tree-sitter, etc.), backup anything you have in your nvim configuration folder (~/.config/nvim), and delete it.

Then, you have to clone the repository in a folder of your choice (here we will be using ~/code/git/dotnvim) and create a symbolic link so that nvim reads its configuration from the repository:

cd ~/code/git
git clone https://github.com/mtortonesi/dotnvim.git
ln -s ~/.config/nvim ./dotnvim

Hence, you have to manually install the vim-plug plugin manager (see the official vim-plug installation instructions for more details). In Linux:

sh -c 'curl -fLo "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}"/nvim/site/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \
       https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim'

Finally, you start neovim and digit :PlugInstall to install all the other plugins.

If you want GitHub Copilot support, you will likely have to setup authentication. You can do this with the :Copilot setup command. Please refer to the official instructions in the copilot.lua plugin repository.

You might also want to change the LSP servers that you are using. I mostly code in Ruby, C, and Java, so I enabled only the corresponding LSP servers.