Simple Nvim

A straightforward Neovim configuration that should work for most developers. Cloned from NvChad's Tinyvim.

Features

• Catpuccin colour scheme.
• Sidebar navigation.
• Tabs by default.
• Easy lazygit access.
• Basic code completion.
• Sensible hotkeys.
• A simple directory structure.
• Leader key set to SPACE.

Prerequisities

• Any C Compiler to build the LSP configs:

  # MacOS
  brew install gcc
  
  # Ubuntu
  sudo apt install build-essential
  
  # Arch
  sudo pacman -S base-devel

• Ripgrep to search through files and folders:

  # MacOS
  brew install ripgrep
  
  # Ubuntu
  sudo apt install ripgrep
  
  # Arch
  sudo pacman -S ripgrep

• Lazygit for Git things:

  # MacOS
  brew install lazygit
  
  # Ubuntu
  sudo apt install lazygit
  
  # Arch
  sudo pacman -S lazygit

Install

1. Backup your existing Neovim config if you haven't already:

   mv ~/.config/nvim ~/.config/nvim-backup

2. Clear out your existing Neovim cache and local files:

   rm -rf ~/.cache/nvim 
   rm -rf ~/.local/share/nvim

3. Clone this repository into your ~/.config directory:

   git clone https://github.com/johnnymatthews/simple-nvim ~/.config/nvim

4. Open Neovim:

   nvim

   Neovim should download all the extensions, theme files, and dependencies for you.

Keyboard shortcuts

Most of the keyboard shortcuts (also called mappings) for this config can be found within ./lua/mappings.lua, however some shortcuts are defined within plugins. Here is a complete list of all the keyboard shortcut for this repo (all shortcuts are from normal mode, unless otherwise stated):

Description	Shortcut
Comment or uncomment a line	gc
Open or close the sidebar navigation	CTRL + n
Change focus to or from the sidebar navigation	CTRL + ww
Copy the current file to the clipboard	CTRL + c
Find file by filename.	SPACE ff
Find files that you recently opened.	SPACE fo
Search for files by their content.	SPACE fw
Open a Lazygit window	SPACE fg
Open a floating termial window	SPACE ft
Close current tab	CTRL + q
Open or close the undo-tree	SPACE u