Neovim

Installation on Debian with CoPilot

Install Neovim and nodejs

apt install nodejs git-core

# Neovim from Github because version in apt is too old
wget https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/download/v0.9.5/nvim.appimage -O /usr/bin/nvim
chmod +x /usr/bin/nvim

Install plugin manager

sh -c 'curl -fLo "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}"/nvim/site/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim'

Neovim config

mkdir -p .config/nvim/ && vim .config/nvim/init.vim

Contents:

call plug#begin()
Plug 'github/copilot.vim'
call plug#end()

Install plugins

Start nvim and :PlugInstall.

:Copilot setup

Visit https://github.com/login/device and type the code.

Old setup

Config file

Stored in cat ~/.config/nvim/init.vim

call plug#begin()


Plug 'github/copilot.vim'
Plug 'morhetz/gruvbox'
Plug 'pearofducks/ansible-vim'
Plug 'yaegassy/coc-ansible', {'do': 'yarn install --frozen-lockfile'}


let g:copilot_filetypes = {'markdown': v:true}
let g:copilot_filetypes = {'yaml': v:true}

call plug#end()
" You can revert the settings after the call like so:
"   filetype indent off   " Disable file-type-specific indentation
"   syntax off            " Disable syntax highlighting
colorscheme gruvbox
" set paste

Plugin manager

Vim-Plug

Install with:

sh -c 'curl -fLo "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}"/nvim/site/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \
       https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim'

Plugins I like

XML lint

:%!xmllint --format %

Format json

:%!python -m json.tool

Reformat text to line length

First, set the text width to 100 by using the following command in Normal mode:

:set textwidth=100

After selecting the text in Visual mode, simply press gq, and Vim will reformat the selected text to the specified width.

Or in Normal mode, you can use gq followed by a motion command to reformat a specific part of the text. For example, to reformat the current paragraph, you would use gqap.

Line length 2 options:

Let vim format (i.e.change) your text to have shorter lines, by inserting linebreaks or Leave lines as they are, but display them wrapped

Option 1 would be achieved by setting textwidth (for example :set textwidth=30

Then you can reformat your text by highlighting it (in visual mode) and typing gq. (textwidth can be abbreviated as tw, thus :set tw=30.)

Option 2 can be toggled by running :set wrap / :set nowrap. This will wrap lines which are too long for the window.

Both are independent.

Delete trailing whitespaces

:%s/\s\+$//e

Delete everything after space on the same line

:%s/$\S\+\s$.*/\1

Slash at end of every line

:%s/$/ \\/

When you forgot to use sudo

:w !sudo tee %