Full Neovim Setup from Scratch in 2024

[@youtubeshortsmix2356]

First i tried to watch Theprimeagen's nvim setup then I realise I needed a tutorial to watch that tutorial and here I am btw loveing it so far.

[@henrymisc]

Welcome on board! Hope you enjoy! :)

[@ravinderd.bhatoy7348]

same bro 😂

[@premiero]

Watching Neovim setups doesn't feel the same anymore, I find myself surprisingly understand this shit. Thank you for your patience in explaining every detail 🙏

[@henrymisc]

Glad to hear that! :)

[@arhum1224]

I knew next to nothing about nvim or lua and sat through this to make my own config, much better than kickstart, thank you. Subbed!

[@henrymisc]

Awesome, thanks for the sub! :)

[@mantaboo]

Awesome tutorial by an awesome instructor. It is usually very difficult to follow people demonstrating how to setup Neovim because they move so damn fast. I love how you actually explain the configurations. That is so helpful. I am going to redo my Neovim your way now. I love LazyVim but it seems so bloated from the start and configuring it is not the most intuitive for non developers like me. I just want a nice looking Neovim for editing and creating configuration files for my system and network. I liked and subscribed. Thank you!

[@henrymisc]

Man, thank you so much for the kind words! I'm really happy to hear that it was helpful. Best of luck with your setup, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions along the way. Cheers!

[@sayChristIsKing]

Finally an actual tutorial that worked for me. You wouldn't believe how many times I have struggled with LSP thing. Thank you and thank you TJ for the kickstart repo.

[@henrymisc]

Thank you! :) Same for me - it took a while to figure this out, so it makes me really happy if my videos make it a bit easier for others! Kudos to TJ, indeed! 🙏

[@parthbhardwaj4279]

I didn't know anything about Neovim customizability. You gave me a starting point. Thank you so much.

[@eherrmann01]

Finally a Neovim setup video that makes sense! Thank you. After screwing around with the original kickstart config and being frustrated by it, I found your video, scrapped my configs, started from scratch, and followed along with this tutorial. Now I have a beautiful setup that's well laid out and easy to understand. Now if I can only get rid of that tsserver error that keeps popping up everytime I start Neovim...

[@henrymisc]

@@eherrmann01 Hi thanks :) regarding the tssever error, can try changing tsserver to ts_ls in lsp.lua? It seems they have renamed it.

[@krzysztofkasprzyk758]

Made my setup based on your video. Clear explanations and great pacing. Have been using it for two weeks, and so far I'm loving it. Thank you!

[@henrymisc]

Great to hear! :)

[@bobkoss280]

This is EXCELLENT. Love the start from scratch approach. Dude, you have a gift.

[@henrymisc]

Man, thanks so much for your comment! 🫶

[@__juju__]

Your approach of breaking down configurations and explaining their impact on my workflow is invaluable for beginners like me. Keep up the fantastic work!

[@henrymisc]

Great to hear! Really appreciate your comment :)

[@spasham74]

Beautiful clean setup. Appreciate it very much!!

[@oishiine6781]

Amazing video! This was exactly what I needed. I downloaded kickstart when I was first getting into nvim, but even after reading through it I felt overwhelmed by the amount of information in there. This laid things out nicely and offered a lot of clarity on the functions of some of these plugins. I really like the idea of keeping init.lua nice and clean by importing the plugins instead of having everything in one file. I'll definitely be referencing this video a ton. Thanks for the effort!

[@henrymisc]

What a nice comment - made my day! Thank you :)

[@JoseMaria-fv5os]

It worked! This video is worth watching! Thanks a lot!

[@ravinderd.bhatoy7348]

Thank you so much for this awesome begginer friendly tutorial have tried many before that but no one explains concepts like you did in this video and thanks to you I finally setup my neovim :)

[@henrymisc]

Wow, thank you! It's comments like this that keep me going! 🫶

[@philwin1420]

from all the nvim vids out there, this is by far my fav! good job and all well explained! DANKE! :)

[@henrymisc]

Wow, thanks! :)

[@bablu_0k]

I can't thank you enough. Thanks for helping and preventing me quit neovim due to complex boiler plate plugins (atleast for newbies like me). Now i get the entire structure of the neovim configs. subbed. Keep posting these amazing content.

[@henrymisc]

Thanks for this, much appreciated! 🫶

[@Luix_OS]

crazy good video! I was watching through many videos but this one just hits the spot of beginner friendly, handholding and nice explanations. Super well done!

[@henrymisc]

Man, thanks for the feedback - makes me really happy! 🫶

[@ramesherrabolu1590]

Thx for the presentation. It will really help if a new user can start with some very basic setup and work up to higher levels. A document that describes this journey will be very helpful.

[@henrymisc]

Hi, thank you! Just to clarify, do you mean a blog post about this setup?

[@ramesherrabolu1590]

@@henrymisc Yes a simple two page document simply stating the specific commands and steps. I felt the presentation was fast paced. I think breaking up the video into 3 segments - one getting it installed and basic configuration will help (this should include a choice of different plugin managers). The second could be the different plugins that are friendly, color, syntax highlighting, formatting, etc) and finally a third one which goes to advanced configuration. Just my thoughts. This way someone not very familiar can simply follow and benefit. Imagine a blind man executing the instructions.

[@henrymisc]

@@ramesherrabolu1590 Got it. Thanks a lot for the suggestion! :)

[@c0d_0x16]

Great Great Great!! I've been wanting to rewrite my nvim config, but seriously, after watching this tutorial, I think I'm just gonna grab your config and run with it 😅. It's a rear gem and really easy to understand. Thank you 😜

[@henrymisc]

Awesome! You're very welcome :)

[@z1adahmed]

This is the best Neovim course I have ever seen, Thank you buddy!

[@henrymisc]

My pleasure! Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment :)

[@manikantaraju9137]

I started learning neovim and picked kickstart, but could not make sense of configuration from tj himself. U have done a great job explaining and this should the only tutorial needed for neovim with lazy pkg manager ❤ u and ur content.

[@henrymisc]

Glad to hear that! Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment :)

[@mr.togrul--9383]

Great setup man, love this, as a beginner this really helped me

[@henrymisc]

Awesome, thank you!

[@rickdutta942]

You're a gem, brother💗

[@Web-Dev-Codi]

The nuanced explanations are appreciated. Thank you

[@dorklol2969]

looks like what im looking for. already using kickstart with some customs. my sunday is saved :) thx man and greetz from germany

[@henrymisc]

Welcome! Appreciate you watching!

[@vicca4671]

Really simple and well-featured setup. This step by step helped a lot in getting my own config up and running, so thank you!

[@blankvoidsea]

Awesome guide. It took me a whole weekend today to setup and resolve everything you configured, and it would probably take more than weeks to adapt with the entire setup.😆 I just wished you actually included plugins for debugging during this setup. It's super crucial for coding, but too bad you didn't discuss it (except for pointing out Mason). Thanks a lot!

[@henrymisc]

Thanks for the feedback! And good point about the debugger. I'm considering shooting a video on configuring nvim for Python specifically. Would this be something you're interested in?

[@Dysonsphere42]

So useful! Thank you so much!

[@a_maxed_out_handle_of_30_chars]

simple and to the point, thank you :)

[@henrymisc]

Glad it helped!

[@chriscastillo8068]

Was wondering where the videos were at. Right on man.

[@henrymisc]

Appreciate you watching! :)

[@isaacyang2417]

This is so helpful, thank you so much. I can't appreciate this enough

[@favreje]

I started out with NvChad, and it worked fine, but there were too many "under the hood features". I played *a lot* of config tutorial videos, and none were even close to being as comprehensable or as complete as yours for using a "from scratch" configuration. I now feel like I can tweak my own and understand what I'm doing. Thanks!

[@henrymisc]

Thanks, glad it was helpful. Appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment. If you get stuck LMK :)

[@CyperN077]

Thanks you, great video. I was just rebuilding my nvin configuration just yesterday. Funny I thought I was the only person who users nord. Double plus good.

[@henrymisc]

Team Nord! 🤜🤛 Thanks for the feedback, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@andi242]

thank you for this! I wanted to follow the same approach and you nailed it! also a zen like experience without the presenter constantly yelling at me :D

[@henrymisc]

Hahaha 😃 Glad it was helpful!

[@fabricioveloso8494]

THX for your work !

[@akhiln]

Awesome tutorial, clean and simple configuration. Thank you very much for posting this.

[@henrymisc]

My pleasure! I'm glad if I could help :)

[@MrEniroxOfficial]

You deserve more subs man ! Great !!!!!

[@shrill8239]

This was a life saver bro.....thanks for sharing

[@SudeeptoDutta]

Thank you for accepting my request for NeoVim Setup from Scratch. Thanks a ton.

[@henrymisc]

Of course! Was a lot of fun (and work) making this and I'm glad if it is helpful :)

[@MrShidimaOne]

Great video! Now I finnaly know what my config does :D

[@henrymisc]

That's always good 😄

[@nikolazivkovic2399]

Another great video! Thank you

[@henrymisc]

Glad you liked it🙂

[@gabrielajurioli4430]

Great content! 🚀

[@henrymisc]

Glad you enjoyed it! :)

[@PinikRahman]

This was awesome, youve got my sub. Would love to see your tmux config too and your workflow with Tmux+Nvim

[@henrymisc]

Thanks for the sub! Will definitely talk about Tmux soon!

[@abiiranathan]

Wow ❤ You are a really good teacher

[@henrymisc]

Thanks a lot for the compliment! I'm glad you think so :)

[@DrRed-k2e]

thank you bro now i understand how to config it with how i want

[@darkarie]

Amazing content!!

[@henrymisc]

Thanks! Appreciate you watching! :)

[@jatindua5866]

Thank you for the video buddy! Got through this from your reddit post. Keep the good work up!

[@henrymisc]

Glad if it is helpful! Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment :)

[@xino101010]

thank you very much!

[@prashlovessamosa]

hey henry I was reading your config please make videos on kitty and tmux the way you configured them.

[@henrymisc]

Definitely :)

[@prashlovessamosa]

@@henrymisc great will wait for it I was playing with kitty I found that we can render images in kitty it is so good please include that too.

[@ADITYASINGH-o3e7h]

Its really an easy and straight forward for configuring nvim from scratch its a great video thanks man , btw can u tell me what nerd font are you using

[@henrymisc]

Thank you! The font is JetBrains Mono :)

[@X3VI-o5w]

Very nice video, highly appreciated - tyvm! btw. what kind of nerd font are you currently using? It's looking really nice! keep up the good stuff :)

[@henrymisc]

Thanks for the encouraging comment! :) The font is JetBrains Mono.

[@X3VI-o5w]

@@henrymisc thank you, too! :)

[@yehudahs100]

greate tutorial !!!! worked right from the start without any changes.... I was wondering how to enable format of a region in a file ...

[@umz_dev]

Great tutorial Henry, you got a new subscriber! What do you use to record your screen? It looks ooks great! :)

[@henrymisc]

Thanks for subbing - much appreciated :) For this video I used OBS.

[@YooAzula8262]

Danke Chef

[@henrymisc]

Gerne :)

[@VieiraBBX]

Great video, currently redoing my config just a question though, why are you importing each plugin individually instead of doing something like this in the lazy config: require("lazy").setup("plugins")

[@henrymisc]

Great question! I do it primarily for debugging purposes. When I upgrade and something breaks, I can quickly comment plugins in and out. Also, sometimes I like to keep plugin configs around even if I'm not currently using them. Maybe not the cleanest approach, but that's kinda what works for me.

[@sho6501]

30:00 bufferline - where i left off

[@ThsHunt]

21:13 a quick question how did u combine >= into a single char

[@henrymisc]

This feature is called "ligatures". You need a terminal emulator and a font that supports it. I'm using WezTerm with JetBrains Mono and it is enabled by default :)

[@visionxpro6956]

Man, that was wonderful!!! Please, tell what terminal client do u use???

[@rickdutta942]

Henry, can you please make a video or help me to setup cpp support inside nvim. I am trying from past 1 week watched every next video on youtube tried everything , but still can't able setup lsp for cpp😢 Please please please.

[@latakantsharma3134]

Hey it's really great information I got which I really want to know about nvim. Just 1 req if you could guide me how to add Salesforce-lsp in this

[@HeroHero-jl1lc]

Thanks bro for this There is lot of things to learn about neovim can you make a playlist for teaching us because i am complete beginner and i want to become advance in using neovim . please....😢😢

[@henrymisc]

Thanks man, I appreciate you watching! There will definitely be more Vim content coming soon. Stay tuned :)

[@humoyunkomiljonov4287]

I got a question, I am using Iterm2 terminal and for some cases I need to copy codes for chatgpt unfortunately I can't be able to copy codes because I cannot do cmd + c to copy in clipboard. How can I do copy codes to general clipboard ?

[@thedudegotfourviews]

Do you have a list of all the keyboard shortcuts in your config?

[@henrymisc]

Not really. I find that it's not necessary when you have which-key installed (1:03:03).

[@Guestz0r]

hey I've followed your setup but one thing is driving me crazy: the autoformat on lua files works quite randomly, one time it will format correctly and other time it will e.g. indent with tabs instead of spaces, any hints? edit: I've just switched to conform.nvim from kickstart and seems to work without issues

[@henrymisc]

It could be a few things. Check that your .stylua config matches your desired setup and that the modeline (last line of init.lua in Kickstart) aligns with it. For ad-hoc fixes, you can reindent a file with: :set tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 expandtab :retab This will reindent using 4 spaces. Hope this helps!

[@karlaquino7441]

Can I do this on Windows? I want to switch from VSCode. Thanks.

[@0xkrypton]

yes you can bro..

[@karlaquino7441]

​@@0xkrypton thanks will try to setup mine.

[@prashlovessamosa]

woah thanks

[@henrymisc]

Welcome! Appreciate you watching!

[@latakantsharma3134]

Could you tell me how to set up your nvim config file.. from your dot git repo

[@henrymisc]

Essentially, you need to copy everything inside the nvim directory to ~/.config/nvim. Once you open neovim, everything should install. However, I would recommend using the neovim-kickstart-config repo since the config from my dotfiles depends on some external configurations like environment variables, etc.

[@latakantsharma3134]

@henrymisc okk thanx 4 this

[@latakantsharma3134]

@@henrymisc after git clone I am facing build issue and in neo-tree and other issues could you check 1c

[@henrymisc]

@@latakantsharma3134 what version of neovim are you using? I built it with 0.10.1.

[@latakantsharma3134]

@henrymisc nvim 0.10.2

[@datadreamsit8514]

thank you for the noob-friendly video, perfectly explained and elaborated. thank you for this.

[@henrymisc]

Thanks for the feedback and pointing that out!

[@datadreamsit8514]

@@henrymisc you made a subscriber out of me for this video alone so thank you brother

[@CiecJames]

i did not find you auto formatting file in github

[@henrymisc]

I renamed it to none-ls.lua because none-ls actually covers more than just autoformatting. Apologies for any confusion!

[@CiecJames]

@@henrymisc no need to apologies , anyways thanks for the tutorial it was amazing

[@user-mp6fs7yn]

where is the auto formatting config 🥲

[@henrymisc]

You can find it under "lua/plugins/none-ls.lua". Technically, none-ls supports more than just autocompletion, so I renamed it :)

[@user-mp6fs7yn]

@@henrymisc thanks

[@codesius]

could I ask what the font is you are using?

[@henrymisc]

It's JetBrains Mono

[@bsgamer5069]

Do you have video for setting it up in windows?

[@henrymisc]

I don't have any experience with Windows unfortunately. But from what I've heared, it should be very similar if you're using WSL.

[@bsgamer5069]

@@henrymisc thanks I will try it out.

[@yakomisar]

What font do u use?

[@henrymisc]

JetBrains Mono

[@erichlf]

Cloning instead of moving is crazy

[@AnishBishnoi-wf7lv]

anyone able to setup in windows ? i need help please let me know

[@z1adahmed]

What keyboard you are using?

[@henrymisc]

An Iris CE from Keebio

[@MrTR909]

after following you wezterm guild, I going to continue here, eventhough I dont like vi becaue of stupid shift+control command. so lets see if this great setup will overcome my dislike :)

[@henrymisc]

Hope you enjoy it! :)

[@kavysingh13]

make your tmux video

[@henrymisc]

Coming! 🫡

[@Larimuss]

Neo I’m?😢😮 vim

[@WhatNameHere]

I am getting error because of tsserver: Error executing vim.schedule lua callback: ...l/share/nvim/lazy/mason.nvim/lua/mason-registry/init.lua:80: Cannot find package "tsserver".

[@henrymisc]

I think they renamed it. Can you try "ts_ls" instead of "tsserver"?

[@WhatNameHere]

@ right right, I already fixed it. The comment might help someone though, thank you :)

[@datadreamsit8514]

noob update: i was able to make this whole thing work eventually, I have one last thing left which is init.lua crying about undefined prepend ... for the record everything work so I'm not sure if it's an issue but it is bugging when I open the file

[@henrymisc]

mhh what version of nvim are you using? When I set it up, I was running on 0.10.1. Could you try with that version?

[@datadreamsit8514]

@@henrymisc NVIM v0.9.5