Taylor's Neovim config 🚀

Want to be fancy and use neovim, but don't want to have to figure out all the plugins and setup for yourself? Just steal Taylor's!

Shortcuts

The big ones

Shortcut	Pneumonic	What it does	Notes
{space} ef	Explore Files	Searches files	ctrl+p, ctrl+n to move up/down the list
{space} rg	Rip Grep	Find everywhere	ctrl+p, ctrl+n to move up/down the list. This is a regex, so you'll need to do things like escape periods like \.
{space} w...	Window splits	Navigate window splits	s = split horizontal, v = split veritcal, hjkl = move focus left/down/up/right
{space} gd	Go to Definition	Jumps to definition	ctrl + o (go back) / ctrl + i (go forward) moves you in the jump list
{space} gr	Go to References	Opens references
{space} ex	No good one, EXplore?	Explore files/directories with ranger	Need to do :q to quit ranger
Alt+...	None	Navigate tabs	num keys = go to tab X, p = tab picker mode (follow up with key that appears next to the tab that you want, ,. = prev/next tab, i = pin tab, c = close tab
{space} m{letter}	Mark	Sets a bookmark bound to that letter	{space} '{letter} = go to bookmark (` also works), Capital {letter} is a global bookmark, lowercase is local to that file.
{space} rn	Rename	Renames a variable.	:wa will write to all files.

Complete list of shortcuts can be found in ~/.config/nvim/lua/whichkey.lua (newer, more readable) and ~/.config/nvim/lua/keybindings.lua (deprecated)

Some more

Shortcut	Pneumonic	What it does	Notes
(from ripgrep window) ctrl+q	quickfix	Throws all results into a quickfix list	{space} [q = jump to next quickfix item, {space} ]q = jump to previous quickfix item, {space} ts = hide quickfix list~, {space} tab (when quickfix window is focused) = close quickfix list
gcc	comment	Toggles comment for line	Can be used with other vim modifiers: e.g. gc5j = comment out 6 lines (current + 5 below)
ysiw)	yank, surround inner word with )	Surrounds current word with parenthesis	Can be used with other vim modifiers
{space} cd	Check Diagnostic	Opens error message	Type cd again to enter into the window; then {space} ts (tab split) to full screen window; then {space} tab to get out

Install

(All of these install steps were done on a relatively fresh Ubuntu machine, modify as needed)

install nvim with this config

• mkdir ~/.config/nvim
• cd ~/.config/nvim
• gh repo clone TaylorBeeston/init.vim .
• sudo apt install cargo
• Install neovim: "sudo apt install neovim" got me a version that was too old, so I installed using bob
  • sudo apt install libssl-dev - dependency for bob
  • cargo install --git https://github.com/MordechaiHadad/bob.git
  • add "~/.cargo/bin" to your path
    • For fish shell: set -U fish_user_paths ~/.cargo/bin $fish_user_paths
  • bob install stable
  • bob use stable
  • add  "~/.local/share/neovim/bin" to your path
    • For fish shell: `set -U fish_user_paths ~/.local/share/neovim/bin/ $fish_user_paths
• cargo install ripgrep
• cargo install fd-find
• sudo apt install bat
• Run the command at the top of "The command at the top of ~/.config/nvim/lua/pluginList.lua": git clone https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim ~/.local/share/nvim/site/pack/packer/start/packer.nvim
• nvim
• :PackerUpdate
  • I needed to do this twice because reasons

But wait, there's more!

I didn't have any fonts installed, so I was getting a bunch of ugly square icons with hex codes in them. To fix that, install a font!

Font

• Download FiraCode Nerd font: https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads
• cd Downloads
• unzip Fira... -d ~/.fonts/
• fc-cache -fv
• You'll need nonicons too:
• Download https://github.com/yamatsum/nonicons/blob/master/dist/nonicons.ttf
• cd Downloads
• sudo mv nonicons.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TTF/

Kitty

I also started using Kitty for my terminal per Taylor's advice. "It runs on your GPU" is about all I know about it 😆 The main difference I can see is that it's slighly opaque. It also allows splitting the terminal window and using multiple "tabs"

• sudo apt install kitty
• mkdir/cd ~/.config/kitty
• gh repo clone TaylorBeeston/kitty.conf

Shortcut	What it does	Notes
ctrl+shift+tab	New tab
ctrl+shift+left/right	Navigate between tabs
ctrl+shift+q	Close tab
ctrl+shift+Enter	New window (split window horizontally)
ctrl+shift+[/]	Focus prev/next window
ctrl+shift+w	Close window	Also works for closing tabs