bartbie's Neovim config

What's this about?

Neovim is a lightweight yet powerful text editor/IDE/PDE focused on extensibility and user ergonomics. This config written in Lua is tailor-made for me for (completely subjective) maximum comfort and occasional productivity. Enjoy if you want.

File Structure and Architecture

This config is essentially divided into three parts:

1. init.lua, which, when put in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nvim, bootstraps the plugin manager and installs the plugin part,
2. lua/bartbie, which acts as a plugin that managers can download and load,
3. assets, which is a folder containing all the assets needed for the config that are not lua files.

bartbie/nvim
3. ├─ assets
   │  └─ lsp_configs
   │     └─ # config files of lsps, like pyrightconfig.json
2. ├─ lua
   │  └─ bartbie
   │     ├─ utils
   │     ├─ plugins
   │     │  └─ # specs of the plugins
   │     │ # modules not dependent on plugins other than lazy
   │     ├─ config.lua
   │     ├─ keymaps.lua
   │     ├─ autocmds.lua
   │     │ # plugin's init.lua and healthcheck
   │     ├─ health.lua
   │     └─ init.lua
1. └─  init.lua # nvim's init.lua

Rationale

This architecture allows this config to pull updates via lazy.nvim, without the need for the user to pull the newest git changes themselves.

Moreover, by de facto separating lua/bartbie/, as it now acts as a standalone plugin, defining the Nix flake for the package turns out to be relatively easy.

Installation

Nix

Use the provided flake.

Nvim's config

Clone the repo either on main branch and let the init.lua handle the rest.

# change these if different XDG setup
mv .config/nvim .config/nvim.bak
mv ~/.local/share/nvim ~/.local/share/nvim.bak
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bartbie/nvim ~/.config/nvim
nvim

manually added plugin (lazy.nvim)

I don't think anyone will particularly use this repo as a plugin in their very own config, but it is technically possible, and very much leveraged by the previously mentioned Installation strategies.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to @folke for creating both lazy.nvim, which powers this whole thing, and LazyVim, which I got inspired a lot while creating this personalized and lovely mess of a config.