begin-with-init.vim

Minimal neovim distribution as init.vim

begin-with-init.vim gives you a starter kit of neovim with state-of-the-art plugins and common best practices. It's just your initial configuration file init.vim, but not a heavy stack of plugins.

Installation

At the top directory,

./install.sh

Bundled Plugins

• vim-gitgutter - Show git changes of each line
• vim-autoformat - Format buffers automatically
• vim-easymotion - Jump anywhere, faster
• vim-lastplace - Restore previous position of files
• auto-pairs - Insert or delete brackets, parens, quotes in pair
• vim-yankstack - Make your yank register a stack
• vim-better-whitespace - Highlight and delete extra whitespaces
• vim-mkdir - Create missing directories before saving buffers
• vim-quickrun - Run a whole or part of buffers as scripts
• vim-commentary - Comment or comment out code by one command
• vim-endwise - Complement end-like keywords
• vim-sleuth - Set indent settings with heuristics
• vim-surround - Manipulate surroundings like parens, brackets, and quotes
• lightline.vim - Lightweight and configurable statusline
• ale - Asynchronous syntax check & linting
• vim-auto-save - Save buffers automatically

Fuzzy finder

• fzf - Fuzzy finder command
• fzf.vim - fzf integration for Vim

Language support

• vim-polyglot - Multi language integration
• deoplete.nvim - Auto-completion engine

Key mappings

" Map a leader to the easiest key to push ever.
let g:mapleader = "\<space>"

" Swap gj/gk with j/k.
nnoremap <expr> j v:count ? 'j' : 'gj'
nnoremap <expr> k v:count ? 'k' : 'gk'
nnoremap gj j
nnoremap gk k

" Unhighlight by pusing escape keys twice.
nnoremap <esc><esc> :nohlsearch<cr>

" Yank a line with Y.
nnoremap Y y$

" Open buffers, files, and so on with fzf.
nnoremap <leader>b :Buffers<cr>
nnoremap <leader>c :History:<cr>
nnoremap <leader>f :Files<cr>
nnoremap <leader>g :GFiles<cr>
nnoremap <leader>h :History<cr>
nnoremap <leader>l :Lines<cr>
nnoremap <leader>m :Maps<cr>
nnoremap <leader>r :Ag<cr>

You can navigate completion results from deoplete.nvim with Ctrl-N/P.

You may also check other key mappings from the plugins.

• vim-easymotion
• vim-commentary
• vim-surround

Customization

Edit your own ~/.config/nvim/init.vim!

License

MIT