NeoVim Configuration

About

My NeoVim configuration uses vim-plug to manage Vim plugins. This configuration was originally based on strcat 's Vim configuration.

Installation

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/kalkin/vim-config.git

make install

Dependencies

The makefile will install the dependencies via pip3

• git
• Python3
• yapf for prettify Python code
• jedi autocompletion and static analysis library for Python
• isort utility to sort Python imports
• vint Vim script language linter
• proselint linter for English prose
• yamllint linter for YAML

Configuration Structure

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vim/init.vim bootstraps the rest of the config. All plugins are installed into bundle/ directory, from where they are loaded by pathogen.

Files Structure

Lines starting with a double quotation mark (") are comments. Furthermore, a double quotation mark within the line starts a comment unless it is preceded by a backslash (") and ended by another. NeoVim allows to give special characters by writing them in a special notation. The notation encloses descriptive words in angle brackets (<>). Read all about it with ":help <>".

The characters you will most often are

• <C-M> for control-m
• <C-V> for control-v which quotes the following character
• <ESC> for the escape character.
• <Fn> for F1, F2, ..
• <C-n> for CTRL-N (i. e. CTRL-a, CTRL-k, ..)

Directory Structure

By default $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set to ~/.config.

~/.config/nvim/
  ├──╼ autoload/     # Contains symlink to pathogen
  ├──╼ bundle/       # Contains all installed plugins
  ├──╼ colors/       # Color scheme files
  ├──╼ ftdetect/     # Own filetype detection scripts
  ├──╼ snippets/     # Contains snipmate-snippets
  ├──╼ templates/    # Own template files
  └──╼ vim-plug/     # Contains vim-plug autoload script

Learn NeoVim

• run vimtutor from your Unix/Linux-prompt and go through it
• If you need help understanding some setting in my config files press K over a word and help will open and explain it

Vim Internal Documentation

Try the documentation :help your_keyword:

Websites

• NeoVim-Homepage
• Vim tips Wiki
• Sven's Vim Page
• VI Lover's Homepage
• Best of Vim Tips
• Vim Subreddit
• German newsgroup for editors news:de.comp.editoren
• International newsgroup for editors news:comp.editors