Neovim Starter

Minimal example lua configuration. I do mean minimal, there are no third party plugins involved. It's meant to showcase enough about Neovim's lua api so you can build your configuration.

Most of the code in this configuration is explained here:

• Build your first Neovim configuration in lua

Installation

• Backup your existing configuration if you have one.

• Create an init.lua file in your system. Use this command if you don't know the specific location of Neovim's configuration folder.

nvim --headless -c 'call mkdir(stdpath("config"), "p") | exe "edit" stdpath("config") . "/init.lua" | write | quit'

• Open your configuration file with Neovim.

nvim -c 'edit $MYVIMRC'

• Copy the content of init.lua in this repository into your own init.lua.

Keybindings

Leader key: Space.

Mode	Key	Action
Normal	<leader>h	Go to first non empty character in line.
Normal	<leader>l	Go to last non empty character in line.
Normal	<leader>a	Select all text.
Normal	gy	Copy selected text to clipboard.
Normal	gp	Paste clipboard content.
Normal	<leader>w	Save file.
Normal	<leader>bq	Close current buffer.
Normal	<leader>bl	Go to last active buffer.
Normal	<leader><space>	Show open files.
Normal	<leader>e	Toggle file explorer. When opened show the directory of the current file.
Normal	<leader>E	Toggle file explorer. When opened it shows files in the current working directory.