ARCHIVED

NOTE: This repo is for archive purposes and should not be updated anymore. It's content has been moved to my dotfiles repo

vimfiles

Installation/setup on Windows using neovim

1. Clone the repository into $HOME\vimfiles.

2. Set up symlink to _vimrc file. I did that with the following three command (executed from an administrator access command prompt in the home folder):

mklink /H _vimrc vimfiles\_vimrc

3. Make neovim use the correct vimrc. Create or append to file

~\AppData\Local\nvim\init.vim

the following lines

set runtimepath^=~/vimfiles runtimepath+=~/vimfiles/after
let &packpath = &runtimepath
source ~/vimfiles/_vimrc

as described in Neovim docs

4. Install vim-plug plugin manager. Following the neovim install instructions here, run the following in a PowerShell:

md ~\AppData\Local\nvim\autoload
$uri = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim'
(New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadFile($uri, $ExecutionContext.SessionState.Path.GetUnresolvedProviderPathFromPSPath("~\AppData\Local\nvim\autoload\plug.vim"))

5. To install plugins, by running vim and executing the command:

:PlugInstall

Note: Node needs to be installed for coc.nvim extension to work.

Install on Ubunutu

1. Install neovim

2. Add symlink to vimrc

mkdir ~/.config/nvim
ln -s ~/vimfiles/_vimrc ~/.config/nvim/init.vim

Optional: nvim-qt GUI config

1. If you want to use terminal tabs instead of Qt based tabs in nvim-qt, create or append to file

~\AppData\Local\nvim\ginit.vim

the following line

GuiTabline 0

2. If you want to use terminal popup menu instead of Qt based menu in nvim-qt, create or append to file

~\AppData\Local\nvim\ginit.vim

the following line

GuiPopupmenu 0

Additional dependencies

0. node required for coc extension. Install using node verion manager (nvm) or

choco install nodejs

1. Preferred font Consolas NF

2. For coc-fzf

choco install fzf 

3. For colors in coc-fzf window

choco install bat

4. For grepping with ripgrep (rg)

choco install ripgrep

Useful commands

vim-startify

Help

:h startify
:h startify-faq

Commands

:SLoad       "load a session
:SSave[!]    "save a session
:SDelete[!]  "delete a session
:SClose      "close a session

nvim-qt

:GuiFont                  " get current font
:GuiFont Consolas:h12:b   " set font, font height, and font style (l: light, b: bold, i: italics)