Using the lazy option 'version' we default to updating only to the
latest stable (semver) version of plugins. This should make it a little
more stable in the long run to keep up with plugin updates.
Not all plugins support this versioning scheme and for those that do not
it just keeps tracking the main branch.
Currently from the plugins that support it, only `nvim-lspconfig` needs
to be manually kept on the main branch since it is missing the correct
lua language server otherwise. This should be a problem of the past with
the release of the next version of the plugin.
Added the previously important 'site' directory to the runtime path of
neovim so it stops complaining about not finding spell dictionaries on
starting up with a spell-enabled file.
Migrated from packer.nvim to lazy.nvim - it gives really fast loading
times, easy lazy loading for any package and a snazzy package manager
overview page (invoked through `:Lazy`) which, importantly, all do not
rely on a compiled plugin list.
In essence it feels like an easier to manage and robust packer
replacement (even though packer is a really good manager as well) that
is well worth to switch to. Migration was pretty painless as well.
One thing I might do in the future is split up the plugin structure
itself from a single plugin list (which invokes plugin settings files)
to several files containing the plugins and their settings since it
might give more structure.
With neovim 0.7 bringing autocmd bindings in lua, we can now rely on a
built-in api instead of having to use our own helper function. Last
missing migration is the lsp formatting autogroup.
nvim: Restructure lua config directory
Restructured lua setting files, so that plugin settings are in clearly
labelled as such files, and the base files are just there --- the base
directory.
This should also lay the ground work for modularizing plugins, so that
we can enable/disable plugin groups as we need them.
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nvim: Remove ale linter and formatter
Removed ale from plugins.
Linting is being taken care of by lsp and treesitter plugins and
formatting by formatter.nvim.
Added all filetypes ale took care of to formatting on save.
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nvim: Replace wiki.vim with zettelkasten.nvim
Removed lerlvag's `wiki.vim` from plugin list.
Though I love it and loved using it, by now it clutters up the list and
the basic functionality I need it provided by zettelkasten.nvim.
(That being linking, following links, and quickly opening a central file).
I may still come back to it at some point, but for now I am happy with
the new setup.
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nvim: Add toggleterm and lazygit integration
Added toggleterm plugin, integrating a very quick access to the neovim
terminal (`<leader>=` mapping).
Additionally, added a command to quickly call up a lazygit floating
windows with the same plugin. `<leader>G` will open a git management
window in which you can stage, remove, commit, push, pull and more.
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nvim: Replace surround, sneak; Add treesitter, dial
Replaced vim-sneak with lightspeed lua plugin, which accomplishes
similar to the same goal, with a little more flexibility (can also be
used to replicate other vim plugins like e.g. easymotion).
For now I am using it as a straight replacement, with the same fF/tT
functionality stretching over multiple lines, and quick sS 2-letter
jumps to any location ahead/back.
The highlighting is noticeably more stable and faster. For now it is set
to always highlight the next 5 occurences of a letter, wherever they
are. Lastly, it does not -- so the lightspeed author -- change the
buffer in any way which is what happened with sneak (due to vimscript
limitations) and which can and did confuse things like treesitter and
the lsp integration.
Replaced vim-surround with a lua-equivalent surround.nvim. This one I am
less sure about, the lua pluging, while working, still carries some bugs
and does not seem as thoroughly tested. It still has problems with
surrounding stuff with e.g. `*` and does not deal well with some
quotation situations. I will try to keep using it and perhaps find the
time to contribute to some of the issues instead of going back at first
however, purely since I am a much bigger fan of the plugin existing in
luascript.
Replaced vim-peekaboo with registers, another switch to a lua plugin,
which also functions slightly differently however. I much prefer the lua
plugins display of register contents which simply appear as a dropdown,
compe-like, and I can either paste with the correct symbol choice as
always, or by scrolling through it as if it is an autocomplete choice.
Added dial.nvim which slightly extends the functionality of ^a and ^x
number in-/decreases. It should barely be noticeable in normal operation
but now the combination can be used to change dates, alphabet
characters, hex codes and some more. Most prominently, I am using it for
date manipulation.
Added a couple of treesitter related plugins:
treesitter-context shows the context the cursor is currently in if the
beginning of this context goes off-screen, e.g. the function beginning
or current class being edited. Works for nested contexts.
treesitter-textsubjects allows selecting units of codes by going up the
tree branches. So, first you select an argument, then the whole argument
chain, then the function definition, then the whole function, then the
containing class, and so on. It is quite natural, however, I have so far
only made it work for visual selection, so not as a motion target.
Still, very useful - works with `v.` and can be repeated with `.`.
Lastly, ts-context-commentstring improves the correct selection of
commenting type for commenting plugins (i.e. my `gcc` mapping), by
making use of treesitter where available. Can even do multi-language
files like vue, react, or tsx modules with html, css and javascript
interweaved.
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nvim: Add code formatter
Added code formatter in lua, right now supporting python, cpp,
javascript, lua, rust.
More can very easily be added.
I am not sure if this plugin supports the formatting of code within
snippets in another file format (lukas-reineke/format.nvim does support
this, but seems not-maintained).
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nvim: Add tmux, snippet completion
Added (for real this time) tmux adjacent buffer completion.
Added vsnip completion through compe: Invoke a completion (shown in
compe with snippet preview) through <cr> or <space-cr> and then use
<tab> and <s-tab> to go back and forth through the completable positions
for the respective snippet.
Many default snippets included through the community repository of
friendly-snippets.
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nvim: Improve compe completion, Add outline view
Added outline view to neovim, similar to the well-known vista.vim
plugin. Can be opened (and closed again) with <leader>o mapping, simply
mnemonic for 'outline'.
Added unicode symbols (invoked with '\') and tmux adjacent buffers
to compe completion sources.
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nvim: Add zen writing mode in lua
Switched from goyo to TrueZen.nvim in looking for a lua replacement of
zen writing modes. The F11 shortcut remains the same, additionally using
F10 shortcut to enter a less drastic minimal mode.
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nvim: Switch keymaps to lua format
Using cartographer to make setting keymaps easy.
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nvim: Add tmux Navigator lua replacement
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nvim: Add autopairs, zen writing lua plugins
Switch goyo and autopairs to make use of lua plugins.
Moved most of the plugin setup code from a custom and manually updated
array being called from init.lua, to their respective plugin
installations in plugins.lua (so, wherever the plugin is installed also
contains the call of the configuration code).
This should hopefully reduce duplication a little and may prepare for
the lua plugin setups to end up in plugins directory of neovim.
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nvim: Add lua statusline, base16, async grep
Added galaxyline in an initial iteration which is probably overloaded
but integrates well with the also moved over to lua base16 colorschemes.
For now, it is possible to, at any point, simply call the `:lua
B16theme('themename')` command to change the colorscheme of both neovim
itself and the galaxyline with it.
The statusline, as of now, includes the activated mode (of course), the
filename being edited, the edit state (whether changed from last save,
or read-only), the current git branch if any, as well as the amount of
added, modified, and deleted lines from current git commit. On the right
hand side it contains the lsp status (if connected), the amount of
errors and warnings in current file, the filetype currently recognized
for the file, as well as the usual cursor position in the window.
Added some small other things, including an asynchronous fuzzy-backed
full-text search through telescope, which should hopefully make
full-text searching much more responsive than before; updated the
version of indentline to the correct one; and disabled some unused vim
built-in plugins.
Switched to a lua setup. Moved from `init.vim` to `init.lua`. Moved to a
lua-based plugin manager (packer.nvim). Moved some plugins to neovim
(i.e. lua) versions instead of vimL (notably fzf and indentLine).
Enabled lsp, treesitter and similar plugins by default.
Modularized plugins a little by invoking them in separate files.
This should provide a base to build on, and allow me to more fully
integrate lua into my workflow.
More detailed changes follow:
nvim: Replace completion-nvim with nvim-compe
Replaced completion-nvim since compe comes with more things working out
of the box (especially buffer completion and treesitter save me two
plugin installations), and seems to be overall a bit better supported.
It's fast, it works well, and I can add custom completion sources so
that should be good enough for me.
Changed around a couple of other things for lsp settings and treesitter,
and moved the files around a bit.
This is somewhat in preparation for a move to a lua-based configuration,
since I have long wanted to make the switch.
nvim: Add treesitter-enabled rainbow brackets
Added rainbow brackets to the editor, using the treesitter AST
detection. I am not sure yet if I will keep them, or if they confuse me
more than they help by coloring *everything* *everywhere* and being a
bit too much for my tired eyes.
nvim: Add vim-terminator to enable repl style dev
Added vim-terminator and included some basic keybindings. The plugin
allows sending code over to a terminal window, or repl for those
languages where it's enabled (python, R, bash somewhat).
The basic workflow for me right now is: From e.g. a python file
1. Open a repl with <leader>rr
2. Send over code with
2a. <leader>rt sending (selected part or whole of) file over
2b. <leader>rd sending (selected part or whole of) delimited area
over
A delimited area in option 2b looks for certain patterns and sends
everything up-to the next instance of that pattern.
Currently, the enabled patterns are `In[n]:` with n being a number,
emulating the way jupyter blocks are coded; and `^```` (three
back-ticks at the beginning of a line), to enable sending code fences
from (R)markdown files.
Since it uses the filetype to determine which repl/interpreter to send
code to, it is still a little unwieldy in markdown files (which in this
editor get handled as `pandoc` filetype.)
FIXME: There are two options going forward, either finding a way to
correctly identify the interpreter without filetype (should be done in
vim-terminator and seems inelegant) or correctly setting the filetype
for code fences in (R)Markdown *only* (seems more feasible and may
already be enabled in RMarkdown plugins for vim).
nvim: Fix simultaneous opening alacritty and nvim
When opening both (e.g. `alacritty -e nvim file`), neovim would open
with the wrong size (usually way smaller than the resulting terminal
size) and stay that way until you resized the terminal window.
This simply sends a 'resize' kill command to vim whenever the user
enters it to circumvent the bug until it's fixed.
nvim: Simplify lua plugin setup, Add indentLine
Added indent line plugin to show where and how indentations occur using
neovims virtual text. Can be toggled with `:IndentBlanklineToggle`.
Simplified lua setup a little by naming settings after intent instead of
per plugin -- everything lsp-y now resides in `lsp.lua`, everything
treesitter in `treesitter.lua`, everything indentation in its respective
file. Should, as long as plugins don't get too many, be perhaps a little
simpler to reason about.
nvim: Switch to packer as plugin manager
Switched to packer -- the plugins move to lua and so will I. Packer
seems basically like `vim-plug` in a dress (which is awesome, since
vim-plug is also awesome!) and it is extremely fast.
So, no real complaints but still a little switch to get that little bit
further away from vimscript.
nvim: Add telescope plugin and configuration
Added telescope as fzf replacement. Fzf served me well, but the
configuration is somewhat difficult (not least owing to the fact it's
written in vimscript), and telescope has a burgeoning ecosystem growing
around it.
I could basically drop-in replace all of my mappings and then some.
Refined some options and changed some defaults and I am fairly happy for
now.
nvim: Switch to zettelkasten plugin over wiki.vim
Marty Oehme