Neovim configuration

Official installation instructions

⚠️ I haven't ran Packer for a while, so there might have been breaking changes in some plugins' configs since. This is typical, as the plugins are developed quite fast. ⚠️

Sadly, at the moment the nvim is not maintained very attentively in apt and hence a PPA should be used if one does not want to install manually. Unfortunately, the stable PPA is also practically buried, so the unstable PPA must be used.

First, check that you can use add-apt-repository by installing the required package:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

Then, the PPA can be added and Neovim installed from it with the required Python modules.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neovim-ppa/unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install neovim
sudo apt-get install python-dev python-pip python3-dev python3-pip

To set nvim as the default editor, run

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/editor editor /usr/bin/nvim 60
sudo update-alternatives --config editor

Finally, configure the software by cloning the repo to local configuration directory via

cd ~/.config
git clone [email protected]:vohonen/nvim-config.git nvim

For clipboard integration, install also xclip

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xclip

To ensure that the plugins work properly, first comment out all plugins from init.lua file except plugins/plugins (which includes Packer configuration) and then run :PackerInstall to get everything installed. Then, one should be able to require all plugins, and they should run smoothly.

The command :checkhealth is useful if some difficult errors arise.

If nvim-treesitter breaks with some filetypes instead of others, try :TSUpdate <filetype>.