Configuration

We do use the XDG standard for the config file location. This location can be set with an environment variable $XDG_CONFIG_HOME. By default neovim uses nvim as the config folder.

cd ~/.config
cd ~/.config/nvim/

Neovim support different configurations by using a APPNAME. The installation files are saved in the sub folder with the same name in ~/.local/share/nvim-kickstart/.

NVIM_APPNAME="nvim-kickstart" nvim
alias kvim='NVIM_APPNAME="nvim-kickstart" nvim'
kvim
cd ~/.config/nvim-kickstart
cd ~/.local/share/nvim-kickstart

First start checking the health of your configuration.

kvim
:checkhealth lazy
:checkhealth

The configuration start in with the init.lua file (~/.config/nvim-kickstart/init.lua). More information about the file locations and loading plugins can be found in the deep dive

file locations

cat ~/.config/nvim-kickstart/init.lua                # starter file
ll ~/.config/nvim-kickstart/lua/kickstart/plugins/   # kickstart plugin files
ll ~/.config/nvim-kickstart/lua/custom/plugins/      # custom plugins and config files

Options

Lazy

Plugins

snippets