💤 LazyVim

My LazyVim config, a sequel to runyanjake/nvim.
Based off of https://github.com/LazyVim/starter.

Installation

The OS may not be bundled with GCC which is required for neovim variants. It is part of build-essential, a bundle of useful build tools.

sudo apt install build-essential

Install Neovim if not installed.
Homebrew:

brew install neovim

Ubuntu (installing newer version of neovim):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neovim-ppa/stable
sudo apt update
sudo apt install neovim

Back up existing nvim config

mv ~/.config/nvim ~/.config/nvim_BAK

Clone this repo to wherever you're gonna keep it.

gh repo clone runyanjake/lazyvim  ~/repositories/lazyvim

Link all nvim related items to the nvim config folder.

mkdir ~/.config/nvim
ln -sfn /path/to/dotfiles/lazyvim/stylua.toml ~/.config/nvim/stylua.toml
ln -sfn /path/to/dotfiles/lazyvim/lua ~/.config/nvim/lua
ln -sfn /path/to/dotfiles/lazyvim/init.lua ~/.config/nvim/init.lua

Start nvim, and let all the packages install. Done!

Reinstallation

Sometimes you gotta uninstall and reinstall, here are all the steps in one convenient place:

sudo apt remove neovim
sudo rm -r ~/.local/share/nvim/
sudo rm -r ~/.config/nvim
sudo apt install neovim

mkdir ~/.config/nvim
ln -sfn /path/to/dotfiles/lazyvim/stylua.toml ~/.config/nvim/stylua.toml
ln -sfn /path/to/dotfiles/lazyvim/lua ~/.config/nvim/lua
ln -sfn /path/to/dotfiles/lazyvim/init.lua ~/.config/nvim/init.lua

Reminders

If uninstalling, you need to manually get rid of stuff in ~/.local/share/nvim before reinstalling everything.

Dependencies

Some plugins depend on other packages.

Ripgrep This is needed because the grep feature (Leader + /) spawns an rg process to do grepping.

Install with:

sudo apt-get install ripgrep


## Plugins/Addons/Extras

### Mason (Language Servers)
Enter Mason UI view from nvim: `:Mason`. Enter `g?` to toggle help page if you've forgotten the hotkeys. 
Some ideas of what to install:
- `java-language-server`
- `python-lsp-server`

### Clipboard Support
By default LazyVim can't copy things to the clipboard.  
Install vim-gtk3 to support this:

sudo apt install vim-gtk3

Now, right click > copy will copy to system clipboard.
Alternatively you can copy to the `+` or `*`  register (`"`` + `+` + `y` ) and paste outside.

### Avante
Reference: https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim/blob/main/lua/avante/config.lua  
Remember that the sidebar is toggleable using `LEADER + a + a`.

## Shortcut Reference
`<LEADER>` key is space key. I don't see a need to change it for me.