The perfect Neovim setup for C++

[@dreamsofcode]

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[@fattoofittoo7907]

could you create Neovim setup for C?

[@michaelmueller9635]

Is there a way to get the value of vectors/objects while debugging? I got the feeling, that - except for primitive data types - it's really hard to use the debugger.

[@0xcoffee427]

@@fattoofittoo7907 for c also same or different ?

[@zombiesalad2722]

Just when I was about to resume my old c++ project from a hiatus, you dropped this! What a great timing.

[@dreamsofcode]

I hope it helps!

[@deadmagnet6318]

i can smell procrastination

[@Padancyo]

Thank you very much for this in-depth explanation of how to setup NvChad for C++ development 🙂I am looking forward to the CMake setup!

[@thartanian]

Was there ever a video on nvim plugin for cmake/makefile? If not anybody have a setup for those?

[@jayhathaway4720]

@@thartanian he never did it

[@jayhathaway4720]

@@thartanian Honestly if you're still learning building C++ with cmake you should just use clion with the vim plugin. Set this up later.

[@thartanian]

@@jayhathaway4720 lol funny you mention that, I got CLion just recently, it's great ty!!

[@studysavviour]

Thanks mate, my VSC died and couldn't run C++ earlier, I've always wanted to switch to NVIM and now I have done it finally, Thanks a lot again.

[@roshanpaudel6352]

You are awesome man !!! I also use arch and neovim. The quality content you provide are very consise and really helpful. You are really underrated !!

[@dreamsofcode]

Thank you for the feedback! I appreciate it and am very glad you like the content!

[@scraped_2454]

You forgot the "btw"

[@roshanpaudel6352]

@@scraped_2454 😂 aww man !!

[@joshuarose20]

guys, this guy uses arch linux btw

[@scraped_2454]

@@roshanpaudel6352 Game is the game

[@JesusCastilloBenito]

Thanks you for all your work and dedication! I really wanted to use nvim as my IDE for a long time, but any configuration really convinced me or worked for me until I found your NVChad series. It would be fantastic if you could also do a video making a Java setup :)

[@pizzaTimePedro]

First class tutorial mate! Not only go through the c++ setup but you also go through how to navigate through neovim!

[@rugososphotos3646]

HUGE value in this video, just getting into nvim plus c++, this is the video I needed :)

[@ndes0532]

I'd like to suggest Git for a future video. In particular tooling for resolving merge conflicts and navigating complicated branch structures. It's probably my favorite feature of Intellij and I don't know how to replicate it in Neovim.

[@dreamsofcode]

This is a great idea!

[@antoineleduc7611]

Lazygit

[@jerrymann9332]

ironically, java is the only language I wouldn't use nvim for just because intelliJ is so goated. ideavim is a must though obviously

[@MoveTrueRecords_]

Dude you are actually teaching me Nvim so easy then any video on youtube bro. Thank you

[@joetrujillo639]

Thanks for this great tutorial. It really helped me better understand how to get my Neovim all set up. I was able to get it all working as shown.

[@cankocak1068]

Awesome video! I got into Neovim thanks to you and I'm absolutely loving it. Thank you for the amazing content 😊

[@possumcode]

This video can't be better. Thank you soooooooo much!

Amazing, as the whole series so far! thanks

[@mamahuhu_one]

Thank you for the video. I followed all the steps and could add breakpoints with db but when I press dr I get "no configuration found for `cpp`. You need to add configs to `dap.configurations.cpp` (see `:h dap-configuration`)." Did I do something wrong?

[@gregszalayofficial]

I had the same error. In my case I forgot the 'event = "VeryLazy"', line for the "jay-babu/mason-nvim-dap.nvim" plugin. Adding this fixed it.

[@yolepe]

Thank you for all your work, there was no other guide that was as thorough as this.

[@dreamsofcode]

Glad it was helpful!

[@VHenrik007]

Unfortunately, this doesn't work for me anymore as of 2.5. The "custom" and "core" folders are not there by default, and "chadrc" is in a different location as well. If something comes up, do not copy mindlessly this tutorial. The description helped a bit by using 2.0, but it still doesn't work for me. I have issues right from the get go when selecting the theme. Try `TSInstall all`, that solved it. Then followed along, and although I have snipetts, and the linter works well with the array example, the std:: autocompletion still does not appear for some reason.

[@oguilhermewilliam]

Did you find a solution?

[@VHenrik007]

@@oguilhermewilliam Oh right! In the end for me it was caused gcc/g++ AND clang version mismatch paired with older Ubuntu version. So make sure to match your clang and gcc versions, this somehow helped. Although I gave up on this later on, so I'm not sure.

[@conarius13]

One suggestion for C/C++ is the Neovim plugin Ouroboros, where you can switch between header and source files with a command. I then just created a custom mapping for it so I can switch between both of them quickly. And a follow up would be great to see how we can use include and library paths for different C++ libraries (such as Vulkan and OpenGL, OpenCL, Qt and Boost, just to name a few). I figured out how to do that within VS Code but I really wanna know how to do it in neovim, including setting build commands so the include and library paths are also used in the build command.

[@dreamsofcode]

This is an awesome suggestion. I may do a dedicated video to this plugin!

[@theglowpt3]

The clangd lsp already supports this via ClangdSwitchSourceHeader. I'm sure it's a cool plugin, unnecessary if you have lsp set up though

[@conarius13]

​@@theglowpt3The author of Ourboros explained why he made the plugin: All other implementations would either throw errors easily or you can only switch from header to source but not the other way round.

[@conarius13]

​@@dreamsofcodeOh and I have also looked into setting up neovim for other languages as well and found very interesting plugins and configs. If you want, I could show you some of them

[@theglowpt3]

@@conarius13 Interesting, I'm able to switch both ways just fine, never had any errors or issues at all really

[@Redyf]

The video I was waiting for, thanks dreams!

[@dreamsofcode]

I hope it helped!

[@Shad0wMonkey5]

Can you do the perfect neovim configuration for Java please. That would be amazing and most appreciated. :D

[@dreamsofcode]

It's going to a vote for the next video!

[@cprn.]

Honestly, it looks almost exactly the same - you just need to call `:Mason`, press , find "Java" on the list, type in filter number (it's 71), enter. Now you select an LSP, linter, formatter and debugger (press "I" for "install" on each). Add formatter and linter as source for `null-ls` and you're done. TreeSitter will instal syntax files next time you open Java code. Looks the same for every language.

[@JesusCastilloBenito]

@@cprn. yeah, that's what i thought, but java-language-server seems to not work, so I personally don't know if I just have to go with jdtls or what :')

[@cprn.]

@@JesusCastilloBenito Maybe it's something that should be brought up on that LSP's bug tracker (github or whatever they use). Most servers just work out of the box.

[@Zeioth]

Get NormalNvim, it comes with formatter, debugger, and all the stuff preconfigured.

[@houdiniping]

you are a life saver, your video is just clear, easy to follow

[@RT-jp9me]

This is an awesome video. Thank you for explaining step by step how to proceed. However, I am a bit reluctant to go down the route suggested by you as null-ls is now deprecated. Do you have any thoughts on this?

[@committedcoder3352]

note to more recent viewers: replace jose-elias-alvarez/null-ls.nvim with nvimtools/none-ls.nvim. Interestingly enough that is the only change necessary, as the fork is only trying to maintain the project. That means the require("null-ls") is still the same, even though it might make sense to change it to require("none-ls") (they made the decision for compatability reasons)

[@VladTBK]

Ik you probably won't read this, but I've been struggling for almost 5-6 hours to get the debugger to work for Neovim. I've done everything right, but never added --debug to the g++ compilation. Thank you.

[@Mikkysam52]

I requested and you delivered. Thank you!

[@dreamsofcode]

You're very welcome. I hope you like it!

[@melonTime05]

Great video - i would love if you could cover the promised Cmake/make integration within Nvim -

[@jacoboneill3735]

I set up everything like was said in your video (which was great and really informative). Now I am just stuck on the build tools to save and update the build when learning. Please come out with that video as soon as possible!

[@beekey4807]

i want to use it for c, everything working perfectly fine but when i trying to debug i got error. "No configuration found for 'c'. you need to add configs to 'dap.configurations.c'" any help?

[@Kalasklister1337]

I assume you need to search which mason/nvim plugins you need for C DAP. DAP stands for debugger adapter protocol and it is seriously cool tech. You can even configure it so that you have your debugee on a server or a local docker container and debug without having any dependencies on your system. Just look around for C specific ways and you can get it to work

[@NomanSethi-q3q]

Thanks for the config files in the description.

[@sunnyheheheh9401]

thank you for this video working exactly as you told in my own neovim configuration

[@arumaga]

Thank you! much appreciated for this!

[@PedroMiguelMoreiraRamalho]

This video is superb. I love your explanation and how you go through every single step. Very helpful! Thanks so much.

[@dreamsofcode]

Thank you so much. I really appreciate that feedback!

[@evertonbrzozowyalves1775]

Really like your videos dude! Please keep it up.

[@vimalathithand917]

This is an awesome series ! And it'd be cool if u could do a video for configuring neovim for java

[@NormalNvim]

Awesome video edition!!

[@TahaCodes]

Amazing tutorial! Thank you.

[@hugog.cintra2573]

Great video! Thank you for it!

[@alexsoul982]

Great video man, the arch/nvim comunity most trully thanks and apreciate you

[@dreamsofcode]

Thank you! I really appreciate that.

[@AbdurrahmanHafez]

Great effort thank you so much We need Front-End tools video

[@milkyindo]

Awesome! I am waiting for web development setup such as html/css/javascript on next video 👍

[@itsrobelschwarz7248]

Would really appreciate that CMake video right about now

[@h3li0p4us3]

Good job! thanks for this amazing video

[@abombfuenmayor]

You read my mind! I have a setup for C but it's not perfect. Going to try your setup. Thanks!

[@juangdev6737]

For those who have problems in the last part when executing the "space nr" command. Make sure to include: event = "VeryLazy", after rcarriga/nvim-dap-ui and jay-babu/mason-nvim-dap.nvim in your lua/custom/plugins.lua file. The same thing happened to me and that's what I realized, in the video it shows it very fast at frame 13:20.

[@jakubjaworski8828]

Nice video. I'd love to see stomething like this for the JavaScript and web development in general

[@dreamsofcode]

I shall add it to the backlog, friend!

[@patfre]

I have a problem in that I opened neovim after installing nvchad and instead of getting that example prompt I just get the regular neovim screen just in a different shade of gray and nothing happens.

[@NBMASTER-qr2hw]

did you find a solution for this? same problem here..

[@romangeneral23]

Same here

[@ShooziEdits]

You’re probably using the latest version of nvchad. The version he uses in the video is 2.0 and you can find the git repo in the description for that

[@bence712]

same

[@ericling1564]

The configuration works fine, and It's pretty easy to understand. I just have one more question , if you could help me out. I do'nt know how if there's a built in configuration to see the outline of the buffer, I myself didn't find anyway. I also don't know how to set this up. Thanks for your job anyway.👏👏👏

[@Prodigy1329]

Did you ever actually make the make/cmake video? I had a look and couldn't find one anywhere Everything else worked great though, just swapping out the null-ls link for none-ls and changing nothing else worked flawlessly on nvim 10.1

[@abdullah22112]

Thanks mate! Amazing😊

[@sasuflerr]

Hello ! Will you make an other tutorial with a newer version of NVChad?

[@abhi_survase]

Very consice and easy instructions to follow. I am learning NVim on windows and this is helping me set it up. Only one thing is that at 6:22 the suggestions and autocomplete are not as many as seen here. For me after 'std::' some functions only appear if I enter a character. I have installed Cpp-toolchain using MSYS so I have clang gcc cl compilers. But have set only gcc in the path. Is this the problem?

[@Cyrsztof]

Hi, sorry for digging your comment after few months, but did you find the solution to this problem? I'm having the exact same issue - most suggestions are missing for me. :/

[@Kian-z8m]

having the same problem

[@hitarthpatel]

Great video exactly what I was looking for , can you please make a video/doc about the build plug-in you talk about thanks

[@thartanian]

I don't see a video he made about that, do you have the setup tho?

[@nikodem_____5023]

Perfect, exactly what I need❤

[@dreamsofcode]

I hope it helps!

[@korigamik]

This is great, can you tell us what you use to create these amazing visuals in the video? What video editor and your configuration?

[@dreamsofcode]

I'm using Davinci Resolve! I'm currently packaging up my custom effects in order to sell in the near future and will be doing tutorials on them on a new channel: @dreamsofmotion. I'll do a channel post when that drops!

[@davidkennedydev]

Currently, it's failing, probably a incompatibility with the latest Chad version

[@dreamsofcode]

If you check the description, there's a note on how to use 2.0 still

[@nathangale1842]

Thank you so much!!!!!!

[@adibhanna]

Love your videos! great content and sick editing! What are you using to edit all these videos? your animation skills is 🔥

[@dreamsofcode]

Thanks, dude! I use Davinci Resolve almost exclusively, with some After effects if I can't figure it out in DR. I'm planning on starting another channel for tutorials on motion graphics and am putting together an animation pack as well for some easy drag and drop effects that I use!

[@adibhanna]

@@dreamsofcode That's cool! I didn't know DR can do so much! I mainly use Screenflow to record my videos. but I dont' have much editing experience. How do you record your screen with DR?

[@dreamsofcode]

@@adibhanna I actually record with ffmpeg and use a stream deck for toggling it. I find it's the quickest way to do so for me. I have some custom scripts that also convert to ProRes and to a lossless compressed version as well. More tooling I eventually want to package up and share one day!

[@adibhanna]

@@dreamsofcode that's such a unique idea! love it

[@Blurryavi]

Hi, I followed this tutorial a while ago and it worked really well for me. I'm learning c++ but there seems to be an error with the compiler when i try to initialize every value of an array in 0. What can I do to fix that?

[@UsatiyNyan]

Thank you very much!

[@dreamsofcode]

You're welcome! Thank you for watching.

[@wcrb15]

Any idea on what you're going to use going forward since null-ls is archived?

[@dreamsofcode]

I'm working on a video about it! There's a couple of options moving forward, but I think it's going to be decided by what the community moves to.

[@michrisoft]

You can just swap out the null-ls for "nvimtools/none-ls.nvim" in the plugins file and pretty much everything else is the same. You even leave require "null-ls" in the config file because none-ls was made to be a drop-in replacement.

[@johng.weller468]

Nice content. What desktop environment do you use?

[@thenaman047]

waiting for the JS one :)

[@dreamsofcode]

Would you prefer web, node or deno flavored javascript?

[@thenaman047]

@@dreamsofcode web + node could be easily covered in a video, right? not sure about deno, haven't gotten my hands dirty with it.

[@SjurgisS]

Better use the leader-E to select file tree. Took me days first time to understand that CTRL-H doesn't mean "select file tree", but rather "select window on the left".

[@foxsinban7573]

Hi i just watched all videos of the playlist and i'm asking my self can i use all plugins at once (or a lot of them)? because for my work i need to code rust, python and c. So is it possible to use them at the same time? or do they interfear with each other?

[@bantix9902]

the debugger doesn't work for me, after I do dr a new tab opens up but it doesn't look like a debugging window like on your screen. It's just blank with the title [dap-terminal].. EDIT: I copied your config and it works, but honestly it's soo complicated

[@rafa6536]

Neovim I installed yesterday first time in my life. It's fun, liked it. But sadly for my language there are no quality plugins like there are in VSCode so I can't migrate.

[@bobsoup2319]

My breakpoints keep getting rejected, although the code executes successfully - any advice? I already tried using -glldb instead of --debug, but that didn't fix it. I'm using the latest macos with an m1 mac

[@dn275]

I had to use cpptools instead of codelldb. cpptools can be installed using mason as well

[@apurvaisnotcool]

Love this video. Please make a nvchad setup for unity development. Please 🙏

[@spinoscythe]

note: for clang-format, you must have python3.10-venv installed, sorry Python haters

[@SovieD]

My guy, I literally have been scouring the internet. Thank you lol

[@spinoscythe]

@@SovieD you're welcome 💛

[@nazarzibilyuk1511]

Thank you, good video, but i faced the same error as I see in the video. Print to cout doesnt reflected in dap.repl window. Maybe you know how to solve it?

[@EdwinChenLoo]

Thanks for the tutorial. Was the video on how to invoke custom commands to build and jump to source code with errors ever created?

[@LatitudeMexico]

Cool 😎 thanks, any alternative for vim?

[@liyuefu]

Thanks a lot! Can I just ask a question? how I can pass the argument to debug? for example, I want to run "gaussdb -D /opt/opengauss/pgdata", how to pass the -D .. etc to it? When I try to add it in the , it does not work. Thanks.

[@fahim0404150]

Great video. Could you please tell me what font you are using?

[@dreamsofcode]

JetBrainsMono Nerd Font!

[@bronk9247]

If you could do one of these for JVM (Java, Kotlin, Scala) you would be my hero 🙏

[@dreamsofcode]

Java is going to be voted on for the next one!

[@crusader_]

There needs to be one for Java, JavaScript and PHP

[@dreamsofcode]

Added to the backlog!

[@charlibareel5141]

​​​@@dreamsofcodeyes, it will be appreciated if you can do one for Java, I'm a computer science student and we are forced to use VScode in the university, VS is good because you can immediately install the Java extension pack with all the necessary plugins, I got JDTLS to work with neovim but I have some problems getting "Gradle" and "checkstyle" linter to work properly, because we have to use them for our projects, "checkstyle" works flawlessly with Vscode

[@AhmadShauqi-co3ij]

Next php with xdebug, nice tutorial 👍

[@TheCSarmat]

Thanks a lot for the video. Is there similar instruction on how to add CMake support?

[@neonbyte1337]

Thanks for your series! Would it be possible to add a CMake setup? I can't get neovim to resolve basic stuff like custom import directoy whenever I use a CMake based project.

[@eddyecko94]

null-ls is being archived soon. Look at another way of formatting. clangd comes with a formatter. You can use that with some keybindings or auto commands to set the formatting.

[@dreamsofcode]

Yeah, I'm working on a video about it now. News dropped after I had uploaded and was waiting for review.

[@serge933]

This is great! Is there an easy way to have nvim configured for both Python and C++? How would you go about switching between both functionalities I watched your Python one and it really helped me get up and running quickly with nvim. I thought it was going to be an absolute nightmare trying to do it on my own. Thanks for these!

[@lampham7874]

This video is awesome as I can get a good config without knowing much about neovim yet. I have a question that, sometime I make mistake in code and there is a message popped up: (fix available). How can I apply these fixes? Thank you.

[@josedegracia5246]

Maybe it's my fault for following a tutorial from a year ago, but it seems like the best explained to me, I thought everything was going well until I got to the TSInstall cpp part, I had already tried to configure nvim for cpp but I always ran into the Same error, I thought that following a tutorial and using a pre-configuration would help me get around the problem but it seems I won't be able to. The error happens when I enter the 'TSInstall cpp' command, when it is compiling, it shows the following error: ''In function 'tree_sitter_cpp_external_scanner_serialize' implicit declaration of function 'static_assert' [ -Wimplicit-function-declaration] undefined reference to `static_assert' " I don't know if I have to change something in the function that is giving that error or if it is something I can ignore or if it is only possible in Linux, Windows it is a little different but I didn't think there would be that much of a difference.

[@Seupai-n1f]

I don't understand a word...but it works

[@romangeneral23]

How different is this tutorial now that NVChad is on v2.5 now ?

[@22yso]

Great video! Would you mind please share the setup of your terminal as well? thanks.

[@dr3d3d]

great video thanks very much, can you point me in the right direction for the cmake addition? would love a method of building and running from inside nvim

[@klaik30]

Because of the latest released update for nvchad, this video is pretty hard to follow. They restructured the initial installation that now uses the "starter" repo. This has a different file structure than their regular repo for some reason and it becomes hard to link all of these requirements together.

[@dreamsofcode]

Yeah, it's a breaking change. You can still use the existing branch which is in the description and the comments

[@klaik30]

​@@dreamsofcode Unfortunately, that branch is changed so that the init is just a print saying "use this along starter!!!!". I dont have much experience with how this all works so I wanted to use tutorials like this video, but with the change it gets really hard to figure out what things have changed to make an easy fix 🥲

[@farantariq42304]

Very good tutorial! It worked for me when i did it a few days ago but now when i try to install NvChad from the command given in the description there is an error: Remote branch v2.0 not found in upstream origin. Please help me.

[@sparlockthewarrior-wizard3016]

This is pretty great. One issue I have though about .clang-format. In your exemple, you have a single cpp file in the same folder as .clang-format. But typically you want the .clang-format file in your project's root directory with source files in subfolders. If I try to do that, the file doesn't get detected if I run nvim on the root folder without any arg. It gets the default clang format. The only way I found is to have a dummy cpp file at the root (same folder as .clang-format file) and have nvim open it. Then going through folders with ctrl-n, other files I open will use my .clang-format as well. But it's not fantastic.

[@pramudyatamir5479]

please make configuration for front end too, seems legit

[@DalpakaNBA]

youre the next @fireship !!!!!!!

[@dreamsofcode]

Thank you. Fireship is the GOAT still! I have a long way to go to meet his level.

[@charleslowyer8926]

Can u please make a video about configuring Java in nvim. Especially configuring LSP server from Eclipse is one big nightmare for me and can't figure it out :/ There're just few videos on YT about it. I watched them like 10 times and still it doesnt work for me

[@omarjadiani1205]

Do a neovim for flutter, bro ❤

[@dreamsofcode]

I shall add it to the next vote!

[@sadabwasim9850]

Will love to see it.

[@theplant4046]

doesn't flutter need full heavy IDE I mean you need this to access an emulator easily for testing mobile app I don't disagree with your comment but this comment surprised me

[@omarjadiani1205]

@@theplant4046 I've seen some people using neovim, and it works perfectly. You just need some plug-ins, and you can do everything an ide does

[@codegambit2507]

@@theplant4046 I use neovim + tmux for flutter. It’s a nice experience

[@akashgoyal4855]

Must awaited video now came. Thank you very much now waiting for other configs for c, cmake and python. Also it will be helpful if you can tell us how to achieve the functionality from this config using keyboard shortcut?

[@dreamsofcode]

There is a config for python already! I shall add C and Cake to the backlog. Which copy functionality are you referencing?

[@banchanbet4524]

hey uhh.. my clangd isn't recognizing standard headers, i 've followed the lsp installing instruction

[@Kian-z8m]

me to

[@tuhoang6609]

thank you very much but I have one question how I can input compile_commands.json to clangd in vim to go to definition and declaration. I have to do this a lot while coding

[@christopherwood6514]

Just as a note to some viewers: compiling with the '--debug' flag cause all the breakpoints to be rejected on the Ubuntu wsl on my computer, instead I compiled with the '-glldb' flag and everything worked fine

[@dreamsofcode]

Thank you for sharing this!

[@bobsoup2319]

I have the same problem; the code executes fully, but it just skips all the breakpoints. I'm using the newest macos on my m1 mac though - any advice?

[@shimadabr]

I found this flag to be weird, didn't find it on the manual. The -g flag is very well known though, you could try with it.

[@christopherwood6514]

@@shimadabr -g might also work, i think i tried it but i dont quite remember

[@CheapHomeTech]

I had to record the screen and then play it back in slow speed otherwise it momentarily shows the debug stuff and then reverts back to only the editor window. So looking at the screen in very slow speed I see: Console is in... Could not resolve any locations for breakpoint at main.cpp:4, but found a valid location at main.cpp:4 Launching: main Launched process ... I'm running on the latest linux mint xfce. I tried the -glldb. Still got the same thing. I suppose I'll have to play and get the right debugger settings...

[@michaelcalabrese9338]

My tree that I start with looks nothing like yours in .config after installing nvchad, I have configs and plugins directories and chadrc, mappings, and options are just in the lua directory

[@rul1175]

Can you make a tutorial for LazyVim. I tried to make this one work in lazy vim but I couldnt get it going. I assume clang should work with C too.