Normal usage.

Minimal, focussed sessions with Goyo.

Multi-windowed editing with NerdTree and TagBar sidebars.

Run ./install.sh

#!/bin/bash -e

# Make config directory for Neovim's init.vim
mkdir -p ~/.config/nvim

# Install nvim (and its dependencies: pip3, git), Python 3 and ctags (for tagbar)
sudo apt update
sudo apt install neovim python3 python3-pip git curl exuberant-ctags -y

# Install virtualenv to containerize dependencies
python3 -m pip install virtualenv
python3 -m virtualenv -p python3 ~/.config/nvim/env

# Install pip modules for Neovim within the virtual environment created
source ~/.config/nvim/env/bin/activate
pip install neovim==0.2.6 jedi psutil setproctitle yapf
deactivate

# Install vim-plug plugin manager
curl -fLo ~/.local/share/nvim/site/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim

# (Optional but recommended) Install a nerd font for icons and a beautiful airline bar (https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-fonts) (I'll be using Iosevka for Powerline)
curl -fLo ~/.fonts/Iosevka\ Term\ Nerd\ Font\ Complete.ttf --create-dirs https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/raw/master/patched-fonts/Iosevka/Regular/complete/Iosevka%20Term%20Nerd%20Font%20Complete.ttf

# (Optional) Alias vim -> nvim
echo "alias vim='nvim'" >> ~/.bashrc

# Enter Neovim and install plugins using a temporary init.vim, which avoids warnings about missing colorschemes, functions, etc
sed '/call plug#end/q' init.vim > ~/.config/nvim/init.vim
nvim -c ':PlugInstall' -c ':UpdateRemotePlugins' -c ':qall'
rm ~/.config/nvim/init.vim

# Copy init.vim in current working directory to nvim's config location ...
cp init.vim ~/.config/nvim/

Update plugins (super simple)

nvim
:PlugUpdate

(Optional) Clean plugins - Deletes unused plugins

nvim
:PlugClean

(Optional) Check, download and install the latest vim-plug

nvim
:PlugUpgrade

(Optional) Pull my updates if you want my new modifications

git pull
cp init.vim ~/.config/nvim/

• Colorschemes may not be rendered
• Changing fonts may be harder (https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/49823), if you do not intend to do customize your font, you should uncomment the devicons plugin within "init.vim" (" Plug 'ryanoasis/vim-devicons')

Most custom commands expand off my map leader, keeping nvim as vanilla as possible.

• , - Map leader, nearly all my custom mappings starts with pressing the comma key
• ,q - Sidebar filetree viewer (NERDTree)
• ,w - Sidebar classes, functions, variables list (TagBar)
• \ - Toggle both NERDTree and TagBar
• ,ee - Change colorscheme (with fzf fuzzy finder)
• ,ea - Change Airline theme
• ,e1 - Color mode: Dracula (Dark)
• ,e2 - Color mode: Seoul256 (Between Dark & Light)
• ,e3 - Color mode: Forgotten (Light)
• ,e4 - Color mode: Zazen (Black & White)
• ,r - Refresh/source ~/.config/nvim/init.vim
• ,t - Trim all trailing whitespaces
• ,a - Auto align variables (vim-easy-align), eg. do ,a= while your cursor is on a bunch of variables to align their equal signs
• ,s - New terminal in horizontal split
• ,vs - New terminal in vertical split
• ,d - Automatically generate Python docstrings while cursor is hovering above a function or class
• ,f - Fuzzy find a file (fzf)
• ,g - Toggle Goyo mode (Goyo), super clean and minimalistic viewing mode
• ,h - Toggle rainbow parentheses highlighting
• ,j - Set filetype to "journal" which makes the syntax highlighting beautiful when working on regular text files and markdown
• ,k - Toggle coloring of hex colors
• ,l - Toggle Limelight mode (Limelight), highlight the lines near cursor only
• ,c<Space> - Toggle comment for current line (Nerd Commenter)
• <Alt-r> - Toggle RGB color picker
• <Tab> - Next buffer
• <Shift-Tab> - Previous buffer

More commmands at https://github.com/Optixal/.vim/blob/master/reference/commands_vim.txt