Neovim Lua

My Neovim configuration with Lua

This setup require neovim >= v0.5.1

Plugins

packer.nvim - A use-package inspired plugin manager for Neovim

nvim-tree.lua - A File Explorer written In Lua

indentBlankline - Adds indentation guides to all lines (including empty lines)

nvim-autopairs - A super powerful autopairs for Neovim

feline.nvim - A minimal, stylish and customizable statusline for Neovim written in Lua

nvim-web-devicons - A Lua fork of vim-devicons

vista.vim - View and search LSP symbols, tags in Vim/NeoVim

nvim-treesitter - Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer

nvim-cmp - Auto completion plugin

nvim-lspconfig - A collection of common configurations for Neovim's built-in language server client

LuaSnip - Snippet Engine for Neovim written in Lua

gitsigns - Super fast git decorations implemented purely in lua/teal

Directory tree of Lua files

├── lua
│   ├── plugins
│   │   ├── feline.lua
│   │   ├── indent-blankline.lua
│   │   ├── nvim-autopairs.lua
│   │   ├── nvim-cmp.lua
│   │   ├── nvim-lspconfig.lua
│   │   ├── nvim-tree.lua
│   │   ├── nvim-treesitter.lua
│   │   ├── packer.lua
│   │   └── vista.lua
│   ├── colors.lua
│   ├── keymaps.lua
│   └── settings.lua
├── plugin
│   └── packer_compiled.lua
└── init.lua

Files and settings

• init.lua: Main configuration file (call lua modules, load plugins etc.)

• lua: Folder of lua modules, here reside all the Lua modules that needed. These modules are called from init.lua file (See below). For plugins settings I use the convention /lua/plugins/<plugin_name>.lua>. See: https://github.com/nanotee/nvim-lua-guide#where-to-put-lua-files

• settings.lua: General Neovim settings and configuration

• keymaps.lua: Keymaps configuration file, vim/neovim and plugins keymaps.

• colors.lua: Define Neovim and plugins colors

• plugins/packer.lua: Plugin manager settings

• plugins/feline.lua: Statusline configuration file

• plugins/indent-blankline.lua: Indent line

• plugins/nvim-autopairs: Autoclose brackets

• plugins/nvim-cmp.lua: Autocompletion settings

• plugins/nvim-lspconfig.lua: LSP configuration (language servers, keybinding)

• plugins/nvim-tree.lua: File manager settings

• plugins/nvim-treesitter: Treesitter interface configuration

• plugins/vista.lua: Tag viewer settings

Appearance

Colorschemes: Neovim Monokai

Fonts: Cozette

Icons: nvim-web-devicons

Installation

1. Install neovim >= v0.5.1

2. Install npm (for download the packages of LSP language servers)

3. Download this repository with git and copy the nvim folder

    git clone https://github.com/brainfucksec/neovim-lua.git
    cd neovim-lua/
    cp -Rv nvim ~/.config/

4. Install packer.nvim for manage the plugins, see: https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim#quickstart

LSP Configuration

1. Install LSP language servers with npm

    sudo npm install -g bash-language-server pyright vscode-langservers-extracted tsserver

2. Install clang for use LSP with clangd

3. Open a source file of one of the supported languages with neovim, in the Neovim cmd line run command :LspInfo for testing the LSP support

Languages currently supported:

Bash - bashls

Python - pyright

C-C++ - clangd

HTML/CSS/JSON - vscode-html

JavaScript/TypeScript - tsserver (under development)

See: nvim-lspconfig #CONFIG.md

TODO

• Fix LSP tags of Vista tag viewer
• Add Lua to LSP configuration
• Find other colorschemes (hard)

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Guides and resources

• https://neovim.io/doc/user/lua.html

• https://github.com/nanotee/nvim-lua-guide

• https://dev.to/vonheikemen/everything-you-need-to-know-to-configure-neovim-using-lua-3h58

• https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/

Other Neovim Lua projects and examples

• https://github.com/siduck76/NvChad

• https://github.com/artart222/CodeArt

Lua resources

• Lua in Y minutes - https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/lua/

• Lua Quick Guide - https://github.com/medwatt/Notes/blob/main/Lua/Lua_Quick_Guide.ipynb

• Lua 5.4 Reference Manual - https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/

Disclaimer

• This configuration is in development version. See: Version on init.lua file.

• As all my setups I try to follow the KISS principle, probably some concepts may not be valid for everyone, then feel free to take what you need but don't install anything without checking first!

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Thanks to all the authors of the sources mentioned above and to all the others from whom I "stole" some configs :)