NVim - kickstart.vim
NVim - kickstart.vim
TJ made a nice video about how to start with neovim and its configuration. I hope that this link is not against the rules since it's about neovim and not about vim .... Personally I find those 2 very very alike and with the features that I need for my daily work, I can use either one of them without noticing any difference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stqUbv-5u2s
Enjoy !
Hi!
kickstart.nvim maintainer here, please don't follow the advice given in the video to just dump init.lua into place.
Please follow the instructions in the README for the repo and git clone it into your $XDG_CONFIG_HOME instead.
If you just copy pasta init.lua things will break. This is a result of converting Kickstart to lazy.nvim
Hiya! Just a note - current kickstart.nvim co-maintainer here :)
The video is just a bit out of date. Please actually read the README in the kickstart.nvim repository as it has detailed instructions.
(Short version: You now need to git clone the repo rather than just dropping the iniit.lua into your Neovim config directory)
I think I already answered my own question - I just need to learn lua really well, and then start over from scratch. Being a total rookie, I have been experiencing endless catch-22's and rabbit holes. If you can't sort the simplest fundamentals, then everything is a black box until you learn what's under the hood. That's why I chose vim/neovim over vscode. Kickstart should be good when I learn how to configure it. Thanks!
I installed the kickstart.nvim the other day by following the video. I skimmed through the README but I am a total newb and it didn't make sense so I figured that I would just come back to it later when I know more about lua and plugins. I just copied and pasted into init.lua. Some things seem to work, but what did I do? Should I start over?
Also, it's a bit frustrating. That video is out of date as it's prior to the conversion to lazy.nvim
You should rather than just dumping init.lua in place actually git clone the repo into your ~/.config directory. There are instructions for that in the README.
@rickmalek @feoh too many plugins, too many key bindings, too many redundant features - i just don't get these bloated vim / nvim distributions.
I appreciate your honesty about the README!
You say it didn't make sense, was it:
- Too long so you felt overwhelmed and stopped?
- Too complicated in some way? Which bit caused you to stall out?
I feel like we need to do better here, but also I'm not a writer myself so I could definitely use all the specific feedback we can get.
Please feel free to file bugs, even if it's "I don't understand what <$tech_phrase> means" or similar. I'll action ever single one of them :)