How I Setup Neovim To Make It AMAZING in 2024: The Ultimate Guide

[@mshirey]

I’ve watched a few of these videos ranging from monolithic 5 hours to completely inadequate 20 minutes. This setup video is almost perfect. You cover everything in a well thought out well ordered manner. You explain everything with just enough detail without breaking off into any severely opinionated sermons about why your way is the correct way and everyone else is wrong (not naming names ;) ). You explain nearly every keystroke and also include on on-screen display of the keys pressed. I cannot tell you how extraordinarily helpful this is. Thank you for the obvious time and effort spent creating and delivering this video. Thank you!

[@joseanmartinez]

That really means a lot. Putting this together is a lot of work, so I’m really happy to hear you’ve found it to be really helpful! Thank you so much for your feedback!

[@jocelyn-n-tech]

@@joseanmartinez I couldn't agree more. I was so confused / frustrated / intimidated by the vim/neovim ecosystem that I avoided it for years and just admired the ones who used it from afar. Then I ran across one of your earlier setup videos using LazyVim package manager. I followed it and actually got the darn thing up and running! I forced myself to use is for 60 days straight and now it's been over a year and half since I've used VSCode as my daily editor! I'll be honest that sometimes I do keep it open and minimized solely for when I have to do some Git Foo and will used it's source control panel to resolve some heavy conflicts but other than that it's neovim all day long. Something about your teaching style just clicks with me and makes it make sense. Thanks so much.

[@rendivs]

I love neovim because you 😊

[@krishn-o4e]

69 likes look better

[@mohamedbhasith90]

​​@@joseanmartinezHey man, thanks for this awesome video, I'm a beginner to vim.. this video helped me a lot, although i have one issue i couldn't able bring transparent or blur background like you, do you have any tutorial for it or a blog post? I can't find a proper newbie guide to it.. pls help

[@s8x.]

ur the reason i switched to neovim over a year ago since ur last video. thank u 🙏

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome!!

[@JefCollier]

Same here! I've mentioned it to @joseanmartinez before, but my workflow is heavily influenced by his dotFiles. I wouldn't have even known about sketchybar without him. I'm pretty happy with my current .nvim configs, but that's not stopping me from watching this in its entirety in case I want to procrastinate on real work so I can fiddle with my setup "one last time."

[@Yesterday_i_ate_rat]

If you are beginner in nvim, then this is the perfect video

[@Raspace]

If you are a beginner looking to learn neovim configuration, this is the best video to start with

[@amrjaafar4522]

Most beginner friendly guide and the cleanest setup I've seen on KZbin.

[@DAVE-GM]

This is an absolute gem! 🌟 Clear, concise, and incredibly detailed. Thank you so much for delivering such an insightful and easy-to-follow guide!

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you! That means a lot!

[@Peter-CDs]

These videos are the best! You have helped me set up my nvim, mac desktop and even tmux! Thank you and please, keep it up!

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome! Thanks for your feedback, really appreciate it!

[@ebodshojaei4967]

Ditto. I'm a better developer thanks to Josean's crystal crisp tutorials. The best I've seen so far. Plus I now find Lua very fascinating. Thank you!

[@joseanmartinez]

@@ebodshojaei4967 Means a lot! Happy to hear the vids have been helpful!

[@JefCollier]

I started down this rabbit-hole because of his Yabai tutorial. Next thing I know, I'm copying almost everything that Josean has taught us.

[@_HetShah_]

Maybe most of the viewers may have noticed it, but the way you keep you video behind the terminal transperency really hooks the viewer. Usually when I watching this type of video, I get distracted ton of times but your idea WHAT A GREAT ONE! Huge props to you for making such a informative video, as one who's eager to learn linux in general, this tutorial is the best one I have ever seen. Once again HUGE PROPS to you and your efforts. You gained a follower!

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you!

[@isrsaar]

Yooooooooooooooo..... I have been watching your videos for a while, and this is strait up GOLD. I've struggled with some config stuff in the past and of course starting again from the beginning. I'm about 20 minutes in and reading along your blog entry at the same time. The amount of time, detail, and effort you are putting into showing others the magic of nvim, step by step in your blog, without any deviation from your fantastically edited video, all while being effective at explaining everything you do is completely unreal. You're a good person.

[@neuskonto12]

I'm working back and forth with nvim, vscode and intelliJ for different purposes all the time, but I started vim about 5 years and nvim about 2 years ago. The struggle with nvim for me, is that I'm not familiar with a lot of the plugins and eco system in general, people in the industry almost never explain what cmp, lsp, fugitive, mason, lazy, etc. is, which makes it hard to distinguish the things in an unknown environment. But not Josean, he explains everything from scratch, which is amazing, I can see the work that you put into that video and the blog post, you're a great guy man. Wish you the best for you and your family!

[@adamdrake39]

Man, thank you for taking the time to make these videos. I can't imagine its easy or quick but you have really helped me tweak my neovim setup and now I use it almost fully for my coding. 👍

[@joseanmartinez]

It’s a ton of work so I’m really happy to hear they’ve been helpful for you! Thank you!

[@rastaman8632]

Half way through the video, I want to appreciate how well made this video is. You demonstrated easy and correct way to setup neovim imo.

[@Remeroska]

On the train of people that switched because of you. Thanks!

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome!!

[@sherlockjunior8612]

Oh my gosh I've been practically trying to set up my neovim for months now but 10 minutes into this video and I already have understood so much that i never did before, thanks so so much mate ❤

[@runonce]

Just getting started with NeoVim and this is great material, thank you!

[@marlonmarcello]

This was the best neovim tutorial I've seen to date. I love how you explain and also illustrate everything you do. I also really appreciate that you are vocal about the commands you are entereing while you doing things. It helps a lot people like me that are still learning Neovim. Thanks Josean!

[@pinheaddomi3353]

This has got to be one of the most informative and organized tutorials on Neovim that I have ever seen!

[@AndrewIzatt]

For anyone struggling to see the "tree" file format after adding vim.cmd("let g:netrw_liststyle = 3") in the lua//core/options.lua file, when you're in the :Explore view, make sure and type 'i' a few times to toggle the different listing styles. is the help file and it's in there.

[@MiScusi69]

OMG THANK YOU

[@alexandermartens192]

I almost quit at this point, like I always did configuring nvim... Thx bro

[@re1konn]

I had broken my not very reproducible vim+neovim config. I am half way done with the video right now, and I am so thankful for the very comprehensive way you go about setting this up. I have been able to combine this video with my last config to get it like I exactly want. Thanks very much.

[@Wordsm1th]

“Great work! Your explanations were clear and easy to follow. You’ve really made using Neovim much more approachable-thank you!”

[@vaolin1703]

I just fear I'm never gonna leave the house again with a setup this beautiful

[@atetraxx]

damn, true

[@PierreMalan]

I agree - best full featured config that does it all - I enjoyed to follow this setup - Thanks a lot for the content..!!

[@farazahmed9247]

Just redid my configuration. I built my old one by following your videos last year. Great videos bro!

[@joseanmartinez]

Thanks!

[@jcFaneite]

@joseanmartinez I want to thank you because through this master tutorial I finally could start working with Neovim without using the traditionals IDEs in years of trying. You makes this look easier. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the community. Thank you for the enormous effort you inverted here. All my love and support to you!

[@sebby5336]

Literally getting into neovim and you recently uploaded this, is this heaven sent??

[@RealViPdude]

as an absolute beginner let me tell you this is an absolute gem of a video, you explain everything so well and its really easy to follow. thank you for this

[@johnsteve1276]

Holy shit, I spent almost 2 days to finish this tutorial. Thank you very much sir. You're my live-saver.

[@StrongestNerd]

Just followed your video and I absolutely loved the production quality of it, and the addition of the blog with the commands. You are a true professional! God bless!

[@theparthsingh]

Best video, i ever saw for neovim setup. You have explained every minute details from keybindings to the LSP. Thank you for making this video.

[@itsharsh5997]

I came here after 6 months for a revamp and you are the best always help me make my custom config since you explain things so well

[@scorpionesp6510]

You know.. I wanted to watch this just to see the brilliance of how you setup neovim.. not expecting to want to use majority of your plugins. Tell me why I found myself wanting to add majority of your plugins.. Likes this is just brilliant!!!

[@babasbot]

Thank you! I'm coming from a long period of not using vim. This video is helping me a lot to get back into Vim.

[@Padancyo]

You, sir, are a godsend. I have been looking for this kind of detailed, step-by-step, explanation of how to set up neovim to be the comfortable IDE I need for quite some time, and you are the first I find that ticks all the boxes in my wishlist. Kudos!

[@iChrisBirch]

Great video. Your style of just inserting the text and explaining is perfect. I don't want to watch anyone type all that out. As others mentioned, you in the background of the screen is also perfect. Very good delivery and explanation, plus your config is really clean and well done! Cheers on a great job.

[@ninthsun]

Thanks, over the last couple months, I practiced vim in VSCode. Since then, I've skimmed through several other Neovim tutorials, and found this video most helpful. And indeed it was really really good!! Especially I appreciate for explaining about lazy.vim and lua syntax, I can now customize my own Neovim. You're the BEST

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you so much! Means a lot!

[@GuoGuangChiou]

didn't miss a second to follow each step here. Really great stuff

[@sanketss84]

mind blowing. your pacing and how you structured everything is just brilliant. I started neovim from scratch and was very well able to configure the stuff I wanted to config. thanks for taking the efforts to put this together. ❤

[@latch909]

This is an incredibly impressive video and blog. I will absolutely be referring to a lot of great stuff in this to re-organise my config thanks for publishing!

[@joseanmartinez]

Happy to hear that! Thank you!

[@muhommodshahjalal9811]

brother from bangladesh,,, you can't believe how much gratitude for you,, may Allay peace on you and your whole family

[@AndrewIzatt]

Also, if you're having trouble remapping your key to "jk" as Josean does, try replacing with or (either worked for me on Linux Mint). might be a MacOS-specific mapping.

[@issasafar]

finally i found an understandable neovim video

[@joseanmartinez]

🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@PouyaKhoshfekr]

thanks Josean, your video was not just a guide to setup Neovim but also it was most helpful way for me to learn basic vim motions or other vim related hotkeys.

[@TheBlueBear1337]

The transparancy to see you and the terminal at the same time is a really cool touch! Well done

[@anontodas5918]

Great work man! I really appreciate this video. This video is never going to be old for beginner like me. Take love

[@abdullahmubarak2360]

Such a wonderful tutorial for beginners and there is a lot to learn for intermediate user. I love the effort that was put into making the whole video. Keep Growing bro. Love

[@nedalturas]

I couldn't agree more, your keymaps is easier to remember than mine, just by watching your video I suddenly used your keymap on my config and thought why it wasn't working, it was not my keymap afterl all😅

[@SergioOlivieri89]

Thanks to this video i completely switched to Neovim 🎉🎉🎉 much love from Italy

[@joseanmartinez]

That's awesome!

[@ypucandeleteit]

awesome setup, awesome video. I learned about so many cool plugins watching you!

[@zohanrow]

Man this was AMAZING!! Your content and the edit was just INSANE, keep doing it! 🎉

[@laurosf]

You're my favourite "tools" KZbinr, please keep sharing your workflows

[@nelsonfleig5024]

Beautiful work sir! Followed a few tutorials by the "big name" youtubers and this has been my favorite so far! Was about the give up and just go for an nvim distro, but this really boosted my confidence to create my own config. Thank you so much!!

[@DJ_MrCee]

Loving your KZbin series over the past year. Well done Sir. And would love to see more of the git commit in nvim and push to GitHub if possible.

[@arfeloreed]

Thanks a lot for this. Great tutorial. I've been looking for a way to move my setup from packer to lazy. Such a great help.

[@Insurevism]

dude, thank you so much! ive been following your tutorial since a year ago and this video made me sure that i wanna use nvim! cheers!

[@DavidHanks90]

I'm running a config right now that is very close to what you had in your last video and I've been reluctant to make the switch to Lazy over Packer. This is the perfect excuse to do it. I really appreciate your videos on dev tooling. It's nice to be able to see in-depth how to set stuff up because I just don't have a ton of time to mess around with things myself and just need it to work. Would LOVE to see a full tutorial on LazyGit including why you like it more than running git in the terminal etc. Thanks again for your hard work!

[@影-影]

this video not only "how to install plugin" tutorial, i learn alot about neovim and motion

[@TioJobs]

Without a doubt, this video is the best video of youtube for programmers! Thankyou very much Josean!

[@michaelutech4786]

Others said this before. But I feel that just adding a few thumbs ups is not adequate. It's absolutely amazing how perfectly you balance the amount of time spend on each feature to make sure it's clear why you added it, what benefit it adds and then still manage to pace us through a ton of these settings. Just enough time to stop the video to copy the settings and play with it. While you do that, you calmly chat in the background through a transparent screen with exactly the right amount of transparency to show you and still have the text readable. It looks unsuspicious, as if you would show your setup to a collegue who came over for a coffee. "No stress, I'll walk you through it". Wow! Are you that talented or do you spend tons of time to reach that level of perfection. I don't see or hear cuts. You are really doing an amazing job here. I can't say I know of any "creator" that is better. Some are more entertaining, but better? Thank you! I'm not even really using nvim, being one of these emacs guys... :-)

[@joseanmartinez]

Wow that means a lot! Putting these videos together is a lot of work. There is some editing involved, primarily to remove mistakes when I’m talking or typing something wrong, but I’ve been working in improving how I go through putting all of this together to make it as seamless and easy to follow/understand as possible. Thank you so much for your kind words🙏🏽

[@andyheld3136]

This is awesome like all the other tutorials from your side! For me it was not easy the first time but with your help i was able to get my nvim to the next level. Do you plan or already have a video how to debug i.e. typescript jest/vitest tests? How to debug, set breakpoints and which plugins do you use here? Would love to see a video focusing on debugging :) Thx a lot!

[@matsomo]

This is an absolute gold mine for a nvim noob like myself, thanks

[@jillian3345]

Thank you so much for creating this video. I found it extremely easy to understand and you did a great job of explaining each line in the configuration files. This made it super easy for me to follow along and by the end of the video I have a working nvim config that is pretty cool.

[@LudoTheGreat]

Great video! I decided to switch to neovim after years of people telling me to. This was the perfect video to dive into.

[@Goras147]

Thank you SO much, it was a great learning process for me how lazy, LSPs, navigation and general configuration of Neovim works. I am so glad I found this, otherwise I'd just stay at LazyVim, but this actually gives me so much more control! Again, thank you!

[@novusomelas]

This is another level of commitment, thank you for the video. It is really perfect, the form and the content. Following!

[@jaronhaberstroh7826]

Awesome video! Looking to make a switch from VSCode to NeoVim, and your setup seems like the perfect starting point. Looking forward to giving it a spin for a few weeks before making my own modifications. Anybody looking to get into customizing their own NeoVim experience should consider starting here.

[@AlexGhoro]

Thanks for the video! I bet it was a lot of work to make it, works perfectly on my new Mac I got from work last week. The video quality is perfect too.

[@janvanveldhuizen]

Awesome video! I changed to a lua based vim config by using NvChad. It works, but I had no clue how the lua config works. This video explains it very well, and gives me all information I need to make my own config with the things I want to have for my own dev environment. Kudos!!

[@sergeijohansen4378]

Best video about starting out with neovim I have ever seen!

[@mediablitzeast]

this is the best. Love your videos Josean

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you! Means a lot!

[@tdcode]

As always, I can rely on you to deliver the best updated nvim setup. Awesome stuff. Lazygit - a must 😄

[@TheDaddyLuigi]

Been looking forward to this 🙏🏽

[@dustin6336]

Dude. This was absolutely phenomenal. Thank you so much for your effort on this video and others like it. Subscribed and liked.

[@prashlovessamosa]

Mr Martinez I have configured mine all credit goes to you thanks for making this video very grateful to you.

[@finetopethiopia4095]

Bro, you are my God and your KZbin channel is my temple. Thank you!!

[@PropTechFounder]

Great job of explaining how everything works while stile building the config at a fast pace

[@yashrajjaiswal9941]

this is hands down the best nvim config video I have seen

[@philiscoolerthanu]

That was amazing. Efficient. To the point. Keep doing what you are doing. You are helping bring many to the amazing world of vim, nvim and tmux. Bravo!

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@pandita.express]

This video is fantastic! I learned so much from it, thank you!

[@silentnight4618]

great video as a tutorial, but a lot of details missing, I guess many people want to know why the config works instead of just copying plugin config, for example you integrated nvim-autopairs with nvim-cmp, but didn't show the power of them working together and what's behind the hood, and there's also some confusing parts like the 'completion' field of nvim-cmp jumping out of nowhere, it's a pain that the plugin's official README never tell you the presence and value of it unless you digging deeper into the help manual and even the source code, I think it's essential that an Ultimate guide better mention it so that people who like to go deeper can get a clue. I know it's impossible to explain everything all in one video while keeping it short, but it's definitely worth it to clarify the critical parts that's likely to make newbies confused. I know there must be tons of work to record a video which is nice and succinct, thank you and hope for a better one in future. BTW, the video looks short, yeah only one and a half hour long, but It took me a whole week to fully understand the working mechanism of all the plugin config files, I guess it's sure inevitable to check out the manual and source code of plugins to get solid grasp of them, wish luck for everyone learning neovim!

[@ErmandDurro]

Thank you so much for this amazing content Josean 🙏🏻 😊 I have watched all your videos and I have learned so much. I am very grateful for all the effort that you are putting to bring such great explanations and right to the point tutorials.

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you so much man! I’m really happy to hear that 🙏🏽 Appreciate your feedback and support

[@jebotipasmater]

Just found this channel and this is the second video I'm watching. Great tutorials, loving them! Keep up the great work!

[@mr.bojangles6111]

This was an excellent tutorial. Thank you so much for making it! Between you, TJ and typecraft Neovim is starting to make sense. And, consider this a vote for a LazyGit tutorial. Definitely looking forward to more!

[@fredericvannier2848]

This is an amazing video explaining everything just enough to understand and going quickly. Great quality video, time well spent!

[@ChecedRodgers]

Subbed! Echoing what others have said, this is the optimal level of detail and content density. Many thanks!

[@benarcher372]

Amazing! What a fantastic video. I normally never change my neovim setup more than twice a year (I need to do some actual work as well :-) ), but next time I'll use this as a template. Thanks and take care.

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome, thank you!

[@kevinr8716]

This tutorial is excellent. I watched a lot of these and always felt like they were hitting keys without me realizing it and I always had to pause my way through a 10 minute video. I was able to pretty much follow this at speed because you constantly repeat the basics like "now we colon lazy, shift I to install..." Anyways, thanks for taking the time to make this video. I am much more confident messing around with configurations. You set up your split commands pretty much the same as I have however, I wanted to drop something additional for the comments. Navigating between splits can be cumbersome. I always remapped the split navigation commands to "hjkl" to mimic moving in normal mode, if anyone wants to try it out here are my mappings: keymap.set("n", "", "wincmd k", { desc = "Move up a split"}) keymap.set("n", "", "wincmd j", { desc = "Move down a split"}) keymap.set("n", "", "wincmd h", { desc = "Move left a split"}) keymap.set("n", "", "wincmd l", { desc = "Move right a split"}) Cheers!

[@skyeleake9943]

You may need to update node from v19 to v20 or better to get the LSP to work. Just an FYI for anyone that now has a dent in their drywall trying to figure out why the LSP crashes on buffer load.

[@mbrochh82]

Loved your video a year ago! Very nice to see that you are still going strong! Production value of your videos is really amazing!

[@ИльяПащенко-л8х]

Put it in my bookmarks. Thank you for making such video!

[@joseanmartinez]

Glad you liked it!

[@giftcp82]

I love the pacing. you pack alot of useful information in this video. I could have easily been 5hrs

[@itisciprian]

because of you I switched fully to neovim - all the config refactor to my needs and my liking . Will wait for lazygit video. Cheapeau!

[@ebouchut]

Congratulations for such a useful tutorial video. Great explanations and use of the transparency!

[@pablocoyote9647]

ok I might be a weirdo but I did follow every single step with only one issue on the formatting part which was easily resolved by using your blogpost One of the best tut ever followed thank you so much (also I have awesome corne case with 750mah bat if you are looking to print some)

[@pablocoyote9647]

FYI the trouble section is no longer viable with recent update

[@subbunittala2012]

you are the reason for switching to neovim sir ..thank you so much from BHARAT (INDIA)!..please do a video on OBSIDIAN + NEOVIM !

[@1rk1n]

First 5 options alone (not sure if i'll add everything...)make me feel like Tank from the Matrix. Thank you for the configs..!

[@annakarolinafranz5946]

And congratulations on the channel, I watched all your videos

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you!

[@anre1318]

Thank you so freaking much! One of the best videos on this platform if you are interested in coding! Thanks man!

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you so much for the support and your kind words. Means a lot!

[@BarraIhsan]

Thanks! this will get me started on neovim, and maybe writing my own plugins if needed!

[@a1b2c3d4x]

Been waiting for this:)

[@harrymd84]

Really cool walkthrough • Thank you 👍

[@zeal514]

finally got through the whole video. I have to say i would love to see you go through lazygit. edit: also idk if its worth dedicating a video too. But info on changing which-key prefix key info would deff be useful.