Neovim With AstroNvim | Your New Advanced Development Editor

Tired of using clunky and outdated editors? Neovim with Astro is perfect for you. This video will help you get started in a few minutes, then show you how to use your new configuration.
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Getting started with Neovim and Lua:
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00:00 Introduction
00:51 Installation & Configuration
09:00 Demo & Tutorial
15:48 Conclusion
Music: Odyssey by JIGLR is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
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[@cretezy]

Check out my tutorial on Leap, a Neovim plugin to make you move faster! kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmOqp6yOjdGBl5I

[@nicolascossio5961]

Please make more videos explaining neovim and astronvim in particular. really useful for someone like me who's so used to vscode and is wanting to go into nvim but doesn't really know where to start

[@Caliber632]

I agree this was perfect and extremely helpful. More of this PLEASE!

[@NeerajLagwankar]

100% agree

[@lukaboulpaep]

I also vouch for this comment

[@jorgejunior18]

Start with "Learn Vim" VsCode extension.

[@GunZFoX]

I've been using AstroVim for almost a year and it fitted so well with me. A couple of commands and you are ready to go with almost any LSP supported language

[@WillEhrendreich]

this was hands down the best presentation of a neovim config I've ever seen. I learned a few things that apply to me even though I no longer use astronvim. This is the explanation I needed a year ago. lol. fantatsic job.

[@avinashthakur80]

What do you use now ?

[@dogyX3]

I would also like to know what you use now

[@WillEhrendreich]

​@@avinashthakur80 I went with Lazyvim. to me it seems like there's a more straightforward approach to extension and configuration, and I feel like there's less that's hidden away from the user.

[@WillEhrendreich]

@@dogyX3 I went with Lazyvim. to me it seems like there's a more straightforward approach to extension and configuration, and I feel like there's less that's hidden away from the user.

[@avinashthakur80]

@@WillEhrendreich Interesting. I'm also using Lazyvim now, but I liked their defaults. Particularly having git in File explorer window and docked terminal.

[@firebyrne]

That was a great intro for someone just getting started with neovim like me! Thank you very much!

[@Moonify]

Best AstroNvim video I've ever seen, super usefull. I have been using astro vim for about 6 months now and thanks to your video I have just discovered many more utilities.

[@peterszarvas94]

This is a great video, for someone like me, starting with neovim. I feel difficult to set up a custom config as of now, so I will definitely give astrovim a look!

[@Xemptuous]

I recommend doing it yourself, for the same reason i'm against OhMyZsh (lots of bloat you don't need, and not as "custom" as you want). It's a fun side project, and if you use a repo, you never have to restart again. Some shell scripts here and there, and your nvim config is easily transferrable.

[@LucasTortaOficial]

I just loved this video. I've been using AstroNvim for a few days now and here I've learned a lot that I just didn't know. Things I thought weren't even possible with Nvim. Thanks man!

[@maxreuv]

Excellent and practical review of AstroNvim! Thank you!

[@vpsingh3475]

The latest additional functionality has made AstroNvim most loved neovim configuration. I have tried and experimented with other configurations such as lazyvim, kickstart, NuChad but AstroNvim is the best .Keep updating with supplement video tutorial with latest updates.

[@ezokoh]

Excelent presentation, I have learning neovim from zero, the astroNvim is great for me. Fantastic job.

[@mxc_clips]

This is great! I just moved to v3 from v2 and was having issues with migrating my user config, but this video helped clear up my knowledge gaps

[@mbrav]

Thank you so much for this video! It was so helpful! Also, if anyone runs into an issue with running search on files, make sure "ripgrep" is installed.

[@egor-drummer]

This is really awesome presentation! Thank you!

[@mathpotty5048]

thanks for making this video. IMO this tree of keybindings is more impressive then all other great features. Thanks for people at astrovim for making it...

[@shinkirin47]

Really great intro and explanation. I am going to keep this bookmarked.

[@PingJocky69]

Great tutorial! Thank you for your hard work.

[@xthebumpx]

It would be nice to get a comparison between all the neovim pre-made configs like AstroNVim, LunarVim, LazyVim, NVChad etc.

[@korigamik]

Nvchad ftw!

[@tidzej5400]

​@@korigamikyou say it's best?

[@cenunix]

IMO you should try and recreate them on your own, you’ll have much more flexibility. It may take some time but you’ll be able to adjust your config more easily :)

[@i031939]

Good

[@korigamik]

@@tidzej5400 yes I say that !

[@akhilmn7079]

Thanks for such a great guide! I keep referring to it whenever I want to make small changes in my config!

[@Nishanth_S]

Don't do this. Just understand what's going on. Now only you can escape from tutorial hell.

[@pwhpwhpwhpwh]

It's such a good video.. I wish I've seen it before I lost weeks trying to configure everything myself in a classic vim

[@inteliconn995]

Best AstroNVim tutorial on KZbin. Thanks!

[@neveriodev350]

Thanks for this Cretezy amazing in depth tutorial meant for newbs like me!

[@hermessantos181]

man, you saved me days of researching, thanks a lot

[@okdokie278]

Easily the best tutorial on a Neovim config I've found

[@edwardsarkisyan9267]

Awesome introducing, thanks a lot :)

[@jonforhan9196]

You convinced me to go Astro! Thank You!

[@fred8]

Thank you! Very easy to follow along!

[@theweirddev]

Awesome! Thanks for making this video.

[@lagcisco]

very good video!! can't wait to see some more.

[@techlightdev]

Great tutorial for beginner. Thank you

[@MakingYouSad]

Nice overview, thank you.

[@cabezachumbosampedro8038]

Great video, fantastic. Thank you so much.

[@saladuit]

This vid is amazing

[@z01d]

Great tutorial, thank you!

[@daved8070]

Great video. I feel life is too short to learn all this but I will forever use vim bindings.

[@DiscipleW]

The presentation style reminds me of Fireship. Nice work!

[@niteshtudu6449]

i have been using the neovim for like 3 months and it's really great. Glad i switched from vs code. I still have vs code on my pc.... with vim keybindings.😸

[@Xemptuous]

you'll leave it behind eventually, as it can do everything vscode does, and more, and way faster.

[@aumhren3480]

exemplary quick tutorial , love it . makes me wanna switch to astronvim from lunarvim . thx for sharing , have fun

[@Soulis98]

Great content man!

[@AlexandruJora]

Really great video!

[@jozsefk9]

This was great! Thank you!

[@devabdul]

Finally i got right video 🎉 to make configuration for Astrovim but its also useful for others like nvChad, LazyVim

[@serranomorante]

You’re amazing. Thank you for this video!

[@phaberest_]

Finally a video that shows a lot of key combinations, I left NvChad after getting frustrated because I couldn't grasp the keys

[@pathoslp]

How does it compare to NvChad? Currently trying to switch back to vim from IntelliJ.

[@alfieqashwa5257]

So, do I.

[@donaldwilliams6821]

I like this! I've been using lazyvim but it's way more than what i need. I mostly do scripts for admin work.. So I went to leafvim which is nice too. But this is a really good setup. Thanks.

[@1414tyty]

Beautiful!

[@heiderperdomo7461]

It's great, i'll test it now.

[@johanngambolputty5351]

I've been trying nvchad, but this one seems more batteries included and more config free, also less embarrassing to mention to others if needed.

[@devabdul]

I don't know you but you have my respect❤

[@marcoss4563]

awesome ty!

[@seethruhead7119]

I've tried NVChad and LunarVim, But i think this is the setup I've been looking for.

[@anupjadhav]

This is great. Please can we have more AstroNvim videos :). What are your favourite plugins? for example

[@cycledesign846]

well done!

[@entx8491]

Pure hype, everyone will be back in VS within the next six months.

[@entx8491]

I'll try it.

[@xuxu1075]

good video~!

[@souravpakhira]

Thank you for the video can you please make some more videos on this

[@tony-go-code]

amazing

[@sergeykudryashov9097]

Thank you for detailed video! Do you use AstronVim bundle for refactor? How to setup imports automatic updates after file rename / move?

[@EbonySeraphim]

It doesn't take that much to configure and neovim directly for these features. Don't go crazy with everything being perfect and you'll be fine. The problem with using preconfigured distros of neovim (assuming you don't have core neovim knowledge) is when they stop being maintained you're left with little knowledge at all. If base vim and/or neovim has a keybind to do something (like create splits and navigate between them), changing it something seemingly more convenient or familiar to remember is a bad idea. It'll leave you unequipped when you need to hop on a server or temporary docker/cloud instance to do work and you don't have the ability or time to make it just like your dev environment. The more you can do with less, the better -- generally speaking.

[@Neil_09]

Bro, do more detailed tutorials. You explain so well. Please

[@sgwong513]

wow, a lot of content show in the video. I am really looking forward for having a cheatsheet for all the shortcut and usage show in the video for future reference. can't memorized all in watching the video. but this video really helpful to show the powerful of neovim.

[@pe_w]

OH YEAH

[@FrankJonen]

Nice, it's getting closer to Emacs with every iteration.

[@redacted5052]

Needed an overview of what makes them worthwhile

[@tridibbiswas3361]

Thank you for the video. It just got me started on Astronvim. I am a noob to this. Why is the user folder after cloning from the template as mentioned showing as a hidden folder in neotree

[@shashu1999]

Amazing work. Beautifully scripted!

[@Xavus-137]

Blazing fast on steroids

[@eddyecko94]

Impressive

[@ducbinhpham3215]

This is a great gate-way drug into Vim from a VSCode user perspective but now i find myself struggle when trying to extend its configuration to add more functionalities...

[@nicolasthibault2782]

Interesting presentation. I manage my own config and setup, and at times it feels like using one of these Nvim "distro" could lower the workload while getting nice features. My only worry is getting blocked in terms of customization (using my own plugins, custom null ls sources, set custom mappings). Are there some limitations?

[@Xemptuous]

Anything that makes your life "easier" has its downsides. If you setup your own config and have a repo, you will never need a "distro". Any system i'm on is a simple git clone, and thanks to some shell scripts, I get it setup to run perfectly anywhere, even on my android termux lol

[@vento9943]

I recommend NvChad, easy to extend

[@BlademanZX]

@@Xemptuous you can do the same thing with any of these distros.. Lol

[@Xemptuous]

@@BlademanZX yeah except without all the bloat, lack of ease in customization, and not knowing it inside and out for future changes/fixes

[@BlademanZX]

@@Xemptuous and with the extra benefits of not spending shit tons of time

[@rainyoutthere7899]

Good video, thanks, have one question, at 6:21 you have commented those line so fast, how did you do it?

[@brentsteyn6671]

This is soooo goed.

[@aldan4871]

Thanks a lot for the helpful video, can you create a video on how to configure Vimwiki and add a self template for vimwikiMakeDiaryNote, when creating a new daily note document with all rows from the template, such as title, date, todo, etc. Thanks a lot again.

[@SkullTraill]

I love you

[@VforVanish]

i cant trigger comletion with Ctrl space , do i need another pluguin? thank you for the video helped a lot

[@rafaelmorales1926]

Hey, thank you so much for this! I was using AstroNvim, but struggled a lot with plugins hahaha Just curious, has anyone installed an emmet type plugin on AstroNvim? I haven't been able to make it work yet :(

[@Xemptuous]

Astro has the same issue as OhMyZsh where it throws too much at you for you to know what's going on. Your best bet is making your own config from scratch. As for emmet (no idea what it is) it looks like there are existing plugins for vim for that. If you skip Astro and learn how to do the config yourself, it'll be a piece of cake. Hell, you could even use lua to do it yourself if you're feeling adventurous enough ;p

[@Nishanth_S]

Is this outdated?... Why cloning user template not working?... Can you please update what's happening?

[@handlechar568]

I really want to use vim with mnemonic-ish leader key bindings and all that cool stuff, but don't have the patience to configure from scratch. I dabbled with spacemacs briefly but didn't like that I still had to had to partially learn emacs to understand how it works. This looks like the missing link!

[@juicedelemon]

building your own config is tedious but fun! so if you need an ide quick then use this. otherwise build your own

[@timoxx8543]

I've been using astro recently and i can pretty much say that neo chad is better in every way.

[@Nishanth_S]

In dreams only. Tell me five reasons. Also, You spell it wrong. Not NeoChad, It's NvChad.

[@user-xp4xw1fd2m]

Thanks for video. How can I remap Esc to Capslock?

[@kkounal974]

Thanks for the vid, helped me set it up properly. Do you know if there is a way to dynamically change font size? Edit: I think my problem is mostly with neovide

[@kkounal974]

@@cretezy I figured it out and there was a ready function for it in the neovide FAQ page. Thanks for the informative vid.

[@kkounal974]

​@@cretezyAlso sorry for the ping again but do you happen to know about structural editing plugins for LISPs?

[@karthickb1973]

even now, i am struggling with the my own neovim setup v/s primegean v/s vim from scratch v/s astrovim v/s lunarvim v/s .. list goes on and on

[@discomallard69]

Nice video. My only criticism is (although not really a criticism, just a semi-oversight that anyone could have done) is that watching this an looking at other comments, it is not super clear for someone that doesn't already understand what nvim is that astronvim is just a configuration, that anyoune could theoretically do for themselves. A second thing that is not a criticism to this video or anything, just a general comment on the topic is that such projects although generally targeted towards newcomers to vim/nvim are a generally speaking bad choice if you don't understand the editor in some depth. It's much easier to configure vim by yourself using only plugins that you want and steering only as far from the default neovim editor as you need to. That way you can debug when something goes wrong, if you want to implement some weird feature that maybe is important to you but not as popular you don't have to worry about breaking everything and even if you do you'll know how to fix it because you have a simple configuration that you built yourself in the first place. Finally you will have a lot more support if something goes wrong and you use vanilla nvim with your configs rather than something like astronvim, just because of how large the community is. I don't knock the project; I don't use astronvim myself, but I'm sure it's perfectly nice and functional. I just thing it's difficult to successfully distribute complicated configurations of projects that are supposed to be modular, bare bones and customizable by the end user themselves, because it's very hard to predict how the users will try to interact with them.

[@Xemptuous]

well said. It's the same issue as anything else that tries to make life "easier". It's the same reason I detest OhMyZsh. I did my nvim config from scratch,and 6 months later, it's god damned beautiful *sniff*. I've alao learned a shit ton in that turmoil, to where i'm now writing a hefty nvim plugin. I couldn't have done that if i used astro or nvchad. Easy way makes for weakness imo

[@discomallard69]

​@@Xemptuous ​ I have a funny example about sth that happened to me; I use Vimtex to write and compile latex in vim and I prefer to use tectonic as a latex compiler. When I had this line: vim.cmd([[ syntax enable ]]) in my init.lua, everything worked, but Vimtex would fall back to Texlive as a compiler. This is extraordinarily random as a bug, but it happened. Good luck debugging this if you use something like astronvim

[@SMOKE3104]

It would be complete for me if here was a project wide search and replace. I know spectre can do it and I didn't see it. Is there a "native" way to do that?

[@leewednesday8754]

Please make a tutorial on andromeda theme for neovim, either usin astrovim or lazyvim.

[@NithinJune]

i thought this was a fireship video 😂

[@SriHarshaChilakapati]

I have ported my Vim 7.3 config to NeoVim when it was 0.2.x and my latest version is 0.6.1 so there is a lot of catchup. But why lua of all languages for scripting? VimL is still got for a lot of things and I just use pathogen-vim. The less plugins, the original experience and the more you can tailor it for your own personal use.

[@Xemptuous]

I wondered this too at first, but I eventually got it: luajit is fast af, especially for a high level language. It's a pretty simple language once you get used to it.

[@SmartWizzard]

8:24 how you are searching the github packages or you using any desktop app?

[@jon1867]

I've been using NvChad, but might switch to this

[@Xemptuous]

I wpuld recommend your own vs NvChad or Astro, as they often have alot of bloat you wont use, or are done in a way that's not perfect for your personal flow. Its tough, but nothing good comes easy

[@jon1867]

@@Xemptuous I switched to AstroVim and have been having the most pleasant time I ever have had in vim tbh

[@avinashthakur80]

I just jumped to lazynvim when Astro was using packer. Now you're tempting me to come back. Not sure how they compare though ?

[@aumhren3480]

btw , which theme is used in video ? i like it

[@tony3214]

Hi.. Could you share how to organize imports (like VS code does) for typescript/react application? I had been going through the docs and wasted a lot of time. If someone could help, it would be really great and I would get a starting point to understand nvim better..

[@sabinadhikari2643]

I want to change the colorschem to gruvbox . If I do that then the notifications bar color changes to pink and it's difficult to see the notification text. How to resolve this issue?

[@YourComputer]

Looking to know how to swap j and k mappings for normal mode.

[@wisnuwicaksono6304]

why my tailwind is not working properly on astronvim? i get a lot of error on my index.css when using @layer / @include

[@01speed1]

Do you have a tutorial to debug with Astro for JS and Rust files?

[@user-lx1fc6ii9o]

Where is remapped in the config? I tried to locate where jj and jk are mapped to , but I just can't find it

[@user-lx1fc6ii9o]

@@cretezy Yeah I figured it out! I didn't know it was possible to eliminate the lag after entering 'j', a great plug-in!

[@indiunix]

Any idea how can i customize Heirline statusbar, I have tried all the ways in official doc to no avail.

[@iury664]

after made the leader>a change and tryied to start the comand the following message was showed up "Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off"