I know, I know, it's been a while since we last delved into the wonderful world of LazyVim customization.
In Part 1, we laid the groundwork with LazyVim, establishing a solid foundation for our Neovim journey. Now, it's time to take things to the next level – personalization!
In the next section, I want to express my gratitude to Takuya Matsuyama, who is a true inspiration to me. I have learned a great deal from his work, and I am deeply appreciative of his contributions to the field.
And now, let's start cowboy 🤠🤠🤠.
Folder Structure Tree of LazyVim
Before starting to customize anything, we need to quickly look through the default File Structure Diagram of Lazy.vim to get an overview of it.
For more information: General Settings
autocmds.lua (auto commands): are used to automatically execute specific commands or functions in response to certain events in the editors.
Greatly enhance your Vim workflow, it very wonderful 😍.
keymaps (key mappings): are configurations that define custom keyboard shortcuts. These mappings allow users to bind specific keys or combinations of keys to Vimcommands, functions, or scripts, … thereby streamlining their workflow and making repetitive tasks quicker and easier.
Suppose you don’t know about Key Mappings. In that case, I think this is a useful blog to get started with: Basic Vim Mapping.
Thanks for the great post!
lazy.lua: this is a place to set the default configuration of the Lazy.vim
options.lua (optional): you can set anything to custom your Vim if you want like: autoindent, smartindent, hlsearch, showcmd, shiftwidth, … I will show my config later 🫣
Overview of the bullet points
Now, we are an overview of the bullet points I will configure in the next section:
williamboman/mason.nvim (Portable package manager for Neovim that runs everywhere Neovim runs.
Easily install and manage LSP servers, DAP servers, linters, and formatters.)
treesitters:
nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter (to provide a simple and easy way to use the interface for tree-sitter in Neovim and to provide some basic functionality such as highlighting based on it)
b0o/incline.nvim (When editing many files in a single tabpage, you can't quickly know which file is opened in the tabpage. That's because lualine's globalstatus option is set to false in LazyVim.)
telescope.nvim (It is an extendable _fuzzy finder _over lists.)
As you configure each plugin, it's a good idea to save your changes and restart nvim quickly. This helps you catch any errors right away and makes troubleshooting smoother down the line. Think of it like a mini test drive after each tweak! 🤠🤠🤠
Solarized Osaka theme:
To change your theme create a file like colorscheme.lua
Create: lua/plugins/colorscheme.lua and config:
I don’t want to show concealing when using json and markdown files and turn off paste mode when leaving insert. So, I set conceallevel to 0 for json files and turned off paste mode like below.
If you want to use them, you can skip this config file 🙄
lua
-- Turn off paste mode when leaving insert
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("InsertLeave", {
pattern = "*",
command = "set nopaste",
})
-- Disable the concealing in some file formats
-- The default conceallevel is 3 in LazyVim
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("FileType", {
pattern = { "json", "jsonc", "markdown" },
callback = function()
vim.opt.conceallevel = 0
end,
})
Awesome 🥸🥸🥸!!!
Options Configuration Vim
I have some config for default Vim, it’s only just an old config for normal nvim in the past: lua/config/options.lua. I will omit to explain this file 🫣
lua
vim.g.mapleader = " "
vim.opt.encoding = "utf-8"
vim.opt.fileencoding = "utf-8"
vim.opt.spell = true
vim.opt.spelllang = { "en_us" }
vim.opt.number = true
vim.opt.title = true
vim.opt.autoindent = true
vim.opt.smartindent = true
vim.opt.hlsearch = true
vim.opt.backup = false
vim.opt.showcmd = true
vim.opt.cmdheight = 1
vim.opt.laststatus = 2
vim.opt.expandtab = true
vim.opt.scrolloff = 10
vim.opt.shell = "fish"
vim.opt.backupskip = { "/tmp/*", "/private/tmp/*" }
vim.opt.inccommand = "split"
vim.opt.ignorecase = true -- Case insensitive searching UNLESS /C or capital in search
vim.opt.smarttab = true
vim.opt.breakindent = true
vim.opt.shiftwidth = 2
vim.opt.tabstop = 2
vim.opt.wrap = false -- No Wrap lines
vim.opt.backspace = { "start", "eol", "indent" }
vim.opt.path:append({ "**" }) -- Finding files - Search down into subfolders
vim.opt.wildignore:append({ "*/node_modules/*" })
vim.opt.splitbelow = true -- Put new windows below current
vim.opt.splitright = true -- Put new windows right of current
vim.opt.splitkeep = "cursor"
vim.opt.mouse = ""
vim.g.deprecation_warnings = true
-- Undercurl
vim.cmd([[let &t_Cs = "\e[4:3m"]])
vim.cmd([[let &t_Ce = "\e[4:0m"]])
-- Add asterisks in block comments
vim.opt.formatoptions:append({ "r" })
vim.cmd([[au BufNewFile,BufRead *.astro setf astro]])
vim.cmd([[au BufNewFile,BufRead Podfile setf ruby]])
if vim.fn.has("nvim-0.8") == 1 then
vim.opt.cmdheight = 0
end
Honestly, I don’t want this post to be too long, so I’ll cover the Plugin configuration section in the next article.
