Neovim Setup

Lots of information on nvim can be found for instance here:

• https://programmingpercy.tech/blog/learn-how-to-use-neovim-as-ide/
• https://github.com/hrsh7th/
• https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim
• https://docs.rockylinux.org/books/nvchad/nvchad_ui/nvimtree/

Installation of Neovim

On Debian install neovim from the sources, the packages are mostly a bit aged.

git clone https://github.com/neovim/neovim
sudo apt install ninja-build gettext cmake unzip curl
make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
sudo make install

On Windows install from binary or using installer, on MacOS use brew.

Debian packages can be found here: https://github.com/neovim/neovim-releases/releases

Configuration

Clone the packer repository:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim ~/.local/share/nvim/site/pack/packer/start/packer.nvim

Clone the local configuration repo:

git clone git@gitea.hottis.de:wn/my-nvim-config.git ~/.config/nvim

At the first start of nvim a lot of error messages will be shown. Ignore them and run :PackerInstall. At the next start everything should be fine.

The file ~/.config/nvim/init.lua contains both plugins to be loaded and regular settings for nvim. The directory ~/.config/nvim/lua contains configuration for individual plugins.