My 14 Year-Old (Neo)Vim Configuration

About

I've been iterating on this configuration for more than 14 years and 1,000 commits. It's very unlikely you'd want to use it directly. Instead, feel free to learn and take snippets from it.

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Plugins and Configuration in their Own File

This is one of the things I'm most proud of, definitely steal it.

Each plugin is included and managed in its own file.

Installation

Be sure you read the About section above.

1. git clone git@github.com:mutewinter/dot_vim.git ~/.config/nvim.
2. cd ~/.config/nvim.

Now you have a choice. The automated script or the manual process.

1. Run scripts/setup.

or

1. rake vim:link to make the .vimrc and .nvimrc symbolic links.
2. vim +PlugInstall +qall

Vim Requirements

• I'm using NeoVim via Homebrew on macOS.

Mappings

• Pressing enter in normal mode saves the current buffer, if needed.

And many more. See mappings.vim and plug_plugins for more.

Installing Custom Plugins

Create a new .vim file with the same name as the plugin you'd like to install in plug_plugins/custom. Then add the installation block. For example:

plug_plugins/custom/vim-move.vim

if exists('g:plug_installing_plugins')
  Plug 'matze/vim-move.vim'
  finish
endif

let g:move_key_modifier = 'C'

This example installs vim-move.

Plugin List

Stars	Plugin	Description
	coc.nvim 📄	Nodejs extension host for vim & neovim, load extensions like VSCode and host language servers.
	vim-fugitive 📄	fugitive.vim: A Git wrapper so awesome, it should be illegal
	telescope.nvim 📄	Find, Filter, Preview, Pick. All lua, all the time.
	vim-surround 📄	surround.vim: Delete/change/add parentheses/quotes/XML-tags/much more with ease
	nvim-treesitter 📄	Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer
	copilot.vim 📄	Neovim plugin for GitHub Copilot
	nvim-tree.lua 📄	A file explorer tree for neovim written in lua
	mini.nvim 📄	Library of 40+ independent Lua modules improving overall Neovim (version 0.9 and higher) experience with minimal effort
	lualine.nvim 📄	A blazing fast and easy to configure neovim statusline plugin written in pure lua.
	trouble.nvim 📄	🚦 A pretty diagnostics, references, telescope results, quickfix and location list to help you solve all the trouble your code is causing.
	gitsigns.nvim 📄	Git integration for buffers
	vim-startify 📄	🔗 The fancy start screen for Vim.
	diffview.nvim 📄	Single tabpage interface for easily cycling through diffs for all modified files for any git rev.
	Comment.nvim 📄	🧠 💪 // Smart and powerful comment plugin for neovim. Supports treesitter, dot repeat, left-right/up-down motions, hooks, and more
	undotree 📄	The undo history visualizer for VIM
	vim-dadbod 📄	dadbod.vim: Modern database interface for Vim
	nvim-surround 📄	Add/change/delete surrounding delimiter pairs with ease. Written with ❤️ in Lua.
	nvim-notify 📄	A fancy, configurable, notification manager for NeoVim
	plenary.nvim 📄	plenary: full; complete; entire; absolute; unqualified. All the lua functions I don't want to write twice.
	editorconfig-vim 📄	EditorConfig plugin for Vim
	nvim-treesitter-context 📄	Show code context
	vim-abolish	abolish.vim: Work with several variants of a word at once
	vim-repeat 📄	repeat.vim: enable repeating supported plugin maps with "."
	nvim-web-devicons 📄	Provides Nerd Font icons (glyphs) for use by neovim plugins
	lazygit.nvim 📄	Plugin for calling lazygit from within neovim.
	vim-eunuch 📄	eunuch.vim: Helpers for UNIX
	neoscroll.nvim 📄	Smooth scrolling neovim plugin written in lua
	vim-dadbod-ui 📄	Simple UI for https://github.com/tpope/vim-dadbod
	vim-coffee-script 📄	CoffeeScript support for vim
	lush.nvim 📄	Create Neovim themes with real-time feedback, export anywhere.
	ctrlsf.vim 📄	A text searching plugin mimics Ctrl-Shift-F on Sublime Text 2
	nvim-ts-context-commentstring 📄	Neovim treesitter plugin for setting the commentstring based on the cursor location in a file.
	vim-peekaboo 📄	👀 " / @ / CTRL-R
	vim-rhubarb	rhubarb.vim: GitHub extension for fugitive.vim
	vim-jsx-pretty 📄	🔦 [Vim script] JSX and TSX syntax pretty highlighting for vim.
	dial.nvim 📄	enhanced increment/decrement plugin for Neovim.
	playground 📄	Treesitter playground integrated into Neovim
	vim-hardtime 📄	Plugin to help you stop repeating the basic movement keys
	vim-node 📄	Tools and environment to make Vim superb for developing with Node.js. Like Rails.vim for Node.
	vim-jsbeautify 📄	vim plugin which formated javascript files by js-beautify
	rainbow-delimiters.nvim 📄	Rainbow delimiters for Neovim with Tree-sitter
	iswap.nvim 📄	Interactively select and swap function arguments, list elements, and much more. Powered by tree-sitter.
	open-browser.vim 📄	Open URI with your favorite browser from your most favorite editor
	tmux-complete.vim 📄	Vim plugin for insert mode completion of words in adjacent tmux panes
	vim-graphql 📄	A Vim plugin that provides GraphQL file detection, syntax highlighting, and indentation.
	tsc.nvim 📄	A Neovim plugin for seamless, asynchronous project-wide TypeScript type-checking using the TypeScript compiler (tsc)
	nvim-cursorline 📄	A plugin for neovim that highlights cursor words and lines
	vim-asterisk 📄	❄️ *-Improved
	vim-tmux 📄	vim plugin for tmux.conf
	color-picker.nvim 📄	A powerful Neovim plugin that lets users choose & modify RGB/HSL/HEX colors.
	pgsql.vim 📄	The best PostgreSQL plugin for Vim!
	vim-sort-motion	Vim mapping for sorting a range of text
	telescope-coc.nvim 📄	coc.nvim integration for telescope.nvim
	QFEnter 📄	Open a Quickfix item in a window you choose. (Vim plugin)
	coc-tailwind-intellisense 📄	Coc.nvim extension for Tailwind CSS IntelliSense
	ListToggle 📄	A vim plugin for toggling the display of the quickfix list and the location-list.
	vim-togglecursor 📄	Toggle the cursor shape in the terminal for Vim.
	jellybeans-nvim 📄	A port of jellybeans colorscheme for neovim
	vim-handlebars 📄	[deprecated] Vim plugin for Handlebars
	jsonc.vim 📄	jsonc syntax support for vim
	scratch.vim 📄	Plugin to create and use a scratch Vim buffer
	vim-reveal-in-finder 📄	Reveal the current file in the OS X Finder.
	specs.nvim 📄	👓 A fast and lightweight Neovim lua plugin to keep an eye on where your cursor has jumped.
	HelpClose 📄	Close all help windows
	vim-autoreadwatch 📄	A forked script for vim auto reloading of buffers when changed on disk.
	nvim-colorizer.lua 📄	Fork of Neovim colorizer to support Typewind
	indent-guides.nvim 📄	Problem fetching glepnir/indent-guides.nvim.

That's 69 plugins, holy crap.

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