Neovim From Scratch

Neovim from scratch

Important Update When I initially created this repo I didn’t anticipate the amount of breaking changes, if you’d like to use the same basic config as this one as a base I recommend my new repo: nvim-basic-ide 

Another Update This repo should work fine with Neovim 0.8, also all packages are pinned so it should remain stable.

Each video will be associated with a branch so checkout the one you are interested in, you can follow along with this playlist .

Try out this config

Make sure to remove or move your current nvim directory

IMPORTANT Requires Neovim v0.8.0 . Please upgrade if you’re on an earlier version.

git clone https://github.com/vitorecomp/Neovim-from-scratch.git ~/.config/nvim

Run nvim and wait for the plugins to be installed. (You will notice treesitter pulling in a bunch of parsers the next time you open Neovim)

NOTE Mason  is now used to install and manage LSP servers, DAP servers, linters, and formatters via the :Mason command.

Get healthy

Open nvim and enter the following:

:checkhealth

You’ll probably notice you don’t have support for copy/paste also that python and node haven’t been setup

So let’s fix that

First we’ll fix copy/paste

• On mac pbcopy should be builtin

• On Ubuntu

  sudo apt install xsel

• On Arch Linux

  sudo pacman -S xsel

Next we need to install python support (node is optional)

• Neovim python support

  pip install pynvim

• Neovim node support

  npm i -g neovim

NOTE make sure you have node  installed, I recommend a node manager like fnm .

Upgrade to latest release

Assuming you built from source , cd into the folder where you cloned neovim and run the following commands.

git pull
make distclean && make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
git checkout v0.8.0
sudo make install
nvim -v

The computing scientist’s main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.

- Edsger W. Dijkstra