My Entire Neovim Setup From Scratch After 8 Years

After delaying it over and over - this my entire Neovim setup from scratch. Lua files, plugin structure, what I use daily and how I configure everything.
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⏱ Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
01:04 - Structure
01:45 - Keymaps
02:15 - Lazy plugins
02:45 - Gitsigns + Lualine
03:14 - Editor options + Debugger
03:38 - Telescope + Treesitter
05:21 - LSPs
06:08 - Trouble
06:44 - Note taking and writing
07:42 - Neogit
08:20 - Noice + Notify
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[@devopstoolbox]

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[@typecraft_dev]

this is a GREAT config!

[@hydranooni]

Hi, Nerd!

[@PetrenkoAndrii]

Thanks, Nerd!

[@assafxdori]

What a beast of config! Thank you for sharing with us.

[@Markadown]

I always love seeing people's setup. Great video.

[@Mortonbel]

Great config, thank you!

[@adibhanna]

amazing video! love your setup!

[@devopstoolbox]

Some day I’ll get to your level of aesthetics 😉

[@fixer8173]

Great stuff here, love your content

[@bobby9568]

Amazing! We're waiting for the usage from scratch video :)

[@tihon4979]

Awesome!!! 👍👍👍

[@jonathanjohnston9272]

Nice video! Thanks! I appreciate the chapter marks. Long-time (1996) Vim user, but still a nvim newbie. I'll want to checkout some of those plugins. OTOH, I don't appreciate the sentiment that _real_ Vim usera don't use tabs. I've been using them since Vim added them. They make for handy workspaces, somewhat like workspaces in i3-wm (Linux)

[@devopstoolbox]

Yep, take these stances with a grain of salt :) If it's a feature there's no "real users do X" .. it was my way of letting new neo/vim users to learn about buffer managment and how they differ from what people normally know about them coming from traditional IDEs

[@rodelias9378]

Cool video Thank you

[@Zwk-kb9yc]

Nice :D !

[@ggrl]

wow! just wow!

[@IainSimmons]

Great video, I'll have to steal some of those keymaps! On that topic, is there a particular reason you use the older vim.api.nvim_set_keymap vs the newer vim.keymap.set in a bunch of places?

[@devopstoolbox]

Laziness mainly ;) I focused on moving to lua config files and there are some leftovers. Since I rarely ever change them I never bothered. You’re right though 😅

[@Lusit2306]

Very cool config. I've heavily followed your repo to learn neovim. One thing i find that it misses is plugins lazy loading. At one point my config was too heavy and took like 200ms to open neovim which is noticeable and was annoying. That's when i fell in lazy loading rabbit hole. One exemple with harpoon, i've lazy loaded on Keys event since it's not mandatory on startup. Now my conf takes 60ms to load.

[@devopstoolbox]

You’re 100% right. It’s an optimization I’ve delayed for too long. Will happen soon!

[@Lusit2306]

@@devopstoolbox can't wait for the optimization video !

[@comeraczy2483]

Thanks for sharing. At 8:00, did I hear it right? "It copies my code, as an image"? I understand that, if they need to, people can take their phone to turn the image back into an usable form, but why would you ever share code as an image?

[@devopstoolbox]

Yes exactly. My main 2 use cases : 1. As examples shared on written blogposts / news letters 2. Bits of code shared with coworkers over slack / slides to cover software / new feature or discuss a concept

[@xalium]

I think new version of neovim has comment fn as a native feature. gcc works out of box. Unless there’s any other reason to use that plugin?

[@IainSimmons]

Yes, in Neovim 0.10.0 native commenting was added. It's based on mini.comment, which was also Inspired by a few of the other main ones. Also I think the keymaps to go to the previous/next diagnostic with [d and ]d are now built-in to Neovim 0.10.0 too

[@zutt3567]

hey what's that ltree command you used to show the folders in such a nice way? im on ubuntu and cant seem to download it using snap or apt. and how do you get those autocompletes to come up for your commands? such as when you type a part of a command, the rest of it comes up with a lower opacity and you can press tab to autocomplete it

[@devopstoolbox]

So “lt” is a mapping I have for eza with the tree flag (see line 100: github.com/omerxx/dotfiles/blob/master/zshrc/.zshrc) ltree is the same as lt but without “-long” it’s a temporary mapping I created for the video :)

[@zutt3567]

@@devopstoolbox ah I see, thanks. I'll check it out. could you explain the auto completes in the terminal if that's fine with you?

[@devopstoolbox]

@@zutt3567 oh yeah - this is zsh autosuggestions - github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions Also on my dotfiles (zshrc line 12)

[@zutt3567]

@@devopstoolbox I see. Thanks! great video btw

[@John-Dennehy]

Just paused the video and spent an hour looking for the same thing, before thinking to ask here. Annoyingly I already had eza installed but just didn't realise it could look this nice

[@itisciprian]

i was wondering for sometimes what layout you use for the keyboard ? Colemak DH or Workman or something else? - Make a video about it

[@devopstoolbox]

Good old qwerty :) Never had RSI and while I’d love to take a stub at it at some point where ever I asked people told me it’s more about convenience rather than speed. And, it takes a huge effort to make the change so 🤷

[@topcivilian]

excellent video, my friend you have a new subscriber I would like to see more of these beginner videos, I have a fresh linux installation with vanilla neovim and want to make it as productive as your setup, however, all of these features are a bit overwhelming, lol, so I will need to rewatch this 😊

[@devopstoolbox]

I totally get it. This is part showing what Neovim can do, and part giving you space and direction to get started small and grow. Happy to hear it helps and I hope you'll enjoy the next ones!

[@n0kodoko143]

❤

[@himanshuwiz]

I tried neovim and setup all the configs and keybinding according also integrated the git with it but dont know why i feel more productiive on vs code

[@devopstoolbox]

Hmm my honest take: we’re not all the same. Some would love the idea of moving around quickly, get the hang of it and invest time in making it work (sometime too much time). On the other hand, others don’t want to go through a steep learning curve, and just wanna get things done with vscode. If vim motions are enough for you there’s nothing wrong with that 🤷‍♂️. One thing to note - it takes time to get used to! So if you feel you’ve “wasted” too much of it, change to a setup that works for you

[@lordarturo117]

Do you still use Neorg? Or does Obsidian cover all your note-taking needs?

[@devopstoolbox]

Mainly obsidian. Kept using Neorg for a while for project specific stuff but I slowly forgot syntax and tricks so moved back to the comfort of markdown 😎

[@lordarturo117]

@@devopstoolbox I was looking at switching the other way and really enjoyed your video about it 😎

[@devopstoolbox]

@@lordarturo117 :)

[@LGXerxes]

What do you use for tenting keyboard?

[@devopstoolbox]

I'm using ZSA's platform. BUT - it's quite pricey and while I really like it, there are great 3d print-able models on their website that you can get yourself for a faction of the price. That said, the platform is solid, super easy to setup, and I haven't moved it an inch since I got it (4 month ago)

[@LGXerxes]

@@devopstoolbox I see, am currently looking for something like the ZSA's platform but for my glove80. But it might be a good excuse to buy a printer and diy something.

[@devopstoolbox]

@@LGXerxes How do you like glove80? I'm really curious, I love the moonlander, and I don't think I can give it up but the typing experience is not as good as I used to have with kb's like the HHKB for example

[@alexandrufasoleac627]

Nice Video! Congrats. I tried to battle with LSP (vue 2 and 3) for some days now... getting frustrated :) is there anyone who has a configuration that works properly from LSP pov?

[@devopstoolbox]

Thanks! You mean specifically for js? Checkout “dreamofcode” or “devaslife” they may have some useful stuff for you

[@fraga3477]

Could be installed in Windows? I'm learning C# and it's better to use, edit, create API's, etc... in windows.

[@simonelungarella9000]

Yes, It's pretty easly installable on windows. I've started with kickstart as suggested in the video, if you follow the repo there are some raccomandation on windows installation.

[@devopstoolbox]

I don’t see why not. All of these should work on windows just as well!

[@iyar220]

I love the config but it fails completely with jdtls and i just cannot fix it :( i have to use java a lot so it's a dealbreaker

[@devopstoolbox]

Oh man. I wish I could help... If you do find a way LMK and I'll make to sure to add it to the readme of my dotfiles

[@iyar220]

@@devopstoolbox Thank you, I'll let you know. For now my broken solution is to have neovim load my former config if it's a .java file, and your config if it's any other file lol

[@kamalkamals]

why not using nvimtree ? because the files explorer display by default and there is no keymap to toggle, hide & diplay !!!

[@devopstoolbox]

You're right, but long ago, thanks to DAS (Destroy All Software), I learned that having a file explorer is detrimental to productivity. If you know your project, going through files should be done with a fuzzy searcher. This was in the pre-fzf era, and I believe he called it "leader-c". In an event, with a fuzzy searcher, it's +1/2 characters and you're there. Paired with good buffer management, and you're flying 300% faster between files than you would have with a visual tree. I get that its not everyone's first choice, but I've doing it for over a decade and only when I'm completely unfamiliar with a repo / files structure I'd pop the tree

[@kamalkamals]

@@devopstoolbox yes agree it s depend to each user, but after test ur nvim configs from github, files explorer display by default so how can hide ?

[@devopstoolbox]

@@kamalkamals Not sure why it's on by default, but you have nvimtree toggle and hide commands from your nvim command

[@kamalkamals]

@@devopstoolbox first plugin nvimtree is not on ur config so must to add with custom keymap set

[@x86sapien]

How to turn off the notification popups that appear in right corner. They are annoying

[@devopstoolbox]

You can either get rid of vim notify or use NoiceDismiss

[@x86sapien]

@@devopstoolbox I did both but the popups in the right low corner are still there. It send notification even if lsp is activated. That is everytime i code

[@devopstoolbox]

@@x86sapien that’s strange not sure what are these that’s popping 😳

[@tsukinoko_kun]

Didn't talk about harpoon? 🤨

[@devopstoolbox]

Yeah, the main reason is, I find Harpoon a little funky. It used to be great, and then it started losing touch with my mappings. Even with V2 it feels like it's either not suited for my needs or just moves around in a way I don't get. It's still part of my workflow and I think I need to invest some time in figuring out whats going on. Can't review with honesty at the moment though.

[@willernst]

@@devopstoolboxit’s not something I’ve really incorporated heavily into my workflow, but I gave up on Harpoon and switched to Grapple with much better success.

[@perlance1337]

This is really good, however, sending code as image files should be a warcrime.

[@devopstoolbox]

I find myself do it quite often to show examples - refer to a public source quote in a nicer more readable way

[@abrarmasumabir3809]

if you are not using your HHKB then give it to me : )

[@devopstoolbox]

It has served me for so long and I invested so much in making it even better than what it was that I'm having hard time letting go... Maybe I'll do a give-away sometime :)

[@abrarmasumabir3809]

​@@devopstoolbox If you do, then please consider giving it to me. I am going to graduate from high school and probably will take cs as my major in college.

[@ianmarteens]

I hate vim, neovim and even dev ops. I’m a real programmer: I deal with maths, algorithms and data structures. These thingies are a actual waste of time. It distract potentially useful people from doing useful things. I just refuse to follow the stupid fads.

[@devopstoolbox]

Ok! 👌

[@loo_9]

I hate VS Code, JetBrains, and even web dev. I’m a real developer: I deal with data structures, algorithms and maths. These thingies are a waste of time. It distract potential useful people from doing useful things. I refuse to follow the stupid fads.

[@ianmarteens]

@@loo_9 even parody requires some brains. A hard fact of life, I’m sorry.