Dev config files

Nvim Config

A simple extendable lazy config for Neovim created with 'kickstart.nvim'

Installation

Install Neovim

Download neovim

• 'stable'
• 'nightly' If you are experiencing issues, please make sure you have the latest versions.

Install External Dependencies

NOTE Backup your previous configuration (if any exists)

mv ~/.config/nvim ~/.config/nvim.bak

External Requirements:

• Basic utils: git, make, unzip, C Compiler (gcc)
• ripgrep
• Language Setup:
  • If want to write Typescript, you need npm
  • If want to write Golang, you will need go

Neovim's configurations are located under the following paths, depending on your OS:

OS	PATH
Linux, MacOS	$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nvim, ~/.config/nvim
Windows (cmd)	%userprofile%\AppData\Local\nvim\
Windows (powershell)	$env:USERPROFILE\AppData\Local\nvim\

Update config

• Clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/rinem/dev-files.git

• Move nvim folder to .config

cd dev-files/.config
mv nvim ~/.config/

Post Installation

Start Neovim

nvim

That's it! Lazy will install all the plugins you have. Use :Lazy to view current plugin status.

Read through the init.lua file in your configuration folder for more information about extending and exploring Neovim.

Config files and dot files for dev tools and applications. Read the notes to get better understanding of how to use the config files

Notes

• Use the latest version of newovim >= 0.8 atleast
• Install ripgrep using the command - sudo apt-get install ripgrep for telescope fuzzy-finder to work
• Install a Nerd font for some icons to work
• You will need a C compiler in the path for treesitter to work properly For linux we can install gcc using the command - sudo apt-get install build-essential
• To install the lsp servers run the :Mason command in neovim
• Install node before working in Javascript/Typescript project

TMUX Setup

• Install the latest version of TMUX
• Add TPM for managing plugins with this command git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm
• Update .tmux.conf file from this repo and source the config file with tmux source ~/.tmux.conf
• Use the prefix which should be Ctrl-b and I to install all the plugins

Alacritty

• Just copy the alacritty folder to ~/.config folder

Windows Terminal

• Just copy the settings.json file from windows-terminal folder to the location C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState

Rofi

• Download JetBrains Mono Nerd Font first from here
• Extract font to .fonts folder in ~/ and then clear cache with fc-cache -f -v
• Copy rofi folder to ~/.config folder

Starship

• Install starship and copy starship.toml file to ~/.config curl -sS https://starship.rs/install.sh | sh
• Add this line to the end of your .zshrc eval "$(starship init zsh)"

Picom

• Install picom and copy picom folder to ~/.config
• Add this line to start picom with the window manager i3 exec_always --no-startup-id picom

Polybar

• Install polybar then move the polybar folder to ~/.config
• Make sure to have JetBrains Nerd Font for the glyphs/icons
• Add this line in i3 config to start polybar with window manager exec_always --no-startup-id ~/.config/polybar/launch.sh