✨ Custom Neovim config

A personal Neovim config for Neovim 0.12+. The focus is a bare-bones UI that leans on native features, supplemented by a small set of plugins, to deliver a classic editing experience with a modern touch.

Important

Requires Neovim 0.12 or newer (built on the native vim.pack API).

Most features work without the optional tools below. The exception is mini.pick, whose file and grep pickers need ripgrep or fd.

On Windows, prefer winget or scoop. On Linux, use your distro's package manager (apt, dnf, pacman, ...).

• wl-clipboard for clipboard on Wayland (wl-copy/wl-paste)
• xclip or xsel for clipboard on X11 (Neovim auto-detects either)
• win32yank for clipboard on Windows and WSL
• fd and ripgrep for the mini.pick pickers
• zathura (Linux) or SumatraPDF (Windows) for PDF preview of LaTeX and Typst documents
• pwsh.exe if you want to use PowerShell as the shell on Windows
• fzf only if you re-enable the fzf-lua fallback

🔥 Showcase

⚒️ Features

1. Built on the native vim.pack plugin manager (Neovim 0.12+) with a custom lazy-loader (lua/lloader.lua)
2. Heavy use of native features: vim.lsp.completion, vim.lsp.inline_completion, and vim.snippet
3. Custom JSON snippets in snippets/, compatible with VS Code-style snippet formats and loaded through native vim.snippet
4. Greek and English spell checking by default, with a custom vim.ui.select picker for suggestions
5. Langmap for typing Greek without switching keyboard layouts
6. Language servers for Python (basedpyright, ruff), Rust (rust_analyzer), Typst (tinymist), LaTeX (texlab), Lua (lua_ls), C/C++ (clangd), CMake, Julia, Bash, YAML, TOML, and Copilot inline completion
7. Custom statusline and minimal UI for a distraction-free experience
8. Autocommands and a working ftplugin system (after/ftplugin/)
9. Custom efm language server wiring formatters and linters for various languages
10. LaTeX and Typst PDF preview: texlab forward/inverse search with zathura on Linux and SumatraPDF on Windows; tinymist PDF export for Typst
11. Custom Treesitter queries for highlighting Lua, LaTeX, Typst, and BibTeX
12. mini.pick integration for fast file, grep, and git-status pickers
13. Bundled melange colorscheme

🚀 Installation

Back up your existing config, plugins, data, and cache before installing. Then move them aside (for example, rename them to <folder>.bak), clone this repo to the config path, and open Neovim. Plugins and Treesitter parsers install automatically on first launch. Open :Mason to install any language servers or tools you need.

Linux

# required
mv ~/.config/nvim{,.bak}

# optional but recommended
mv ~/.local/share/nvim{,.bak}
mv ~/.local/state/nvim{,.bak}
mv ~/.cache/nvim{,.bak}

Then:

git clone https://github.com/DimitrisDimitropoulos/nvim.git ~/.config/nvim
nvim

Windows (PowerShell)

# required
Move-Item $env:LOCALAPPDATA\nvim $env:LOCALAPPDATA\nvim.bak

# optional but recommended
Move-Item $env:LOCALAPPDATA\nvim-data $env:LOCALAPPDATA\nvim-data.bak

Then:

git clone https://github.com/DimitrisDimitropoulos/nvim.git $env:LOCALAPPDATA\nvim
nvim

After first launch

Run :checkhealth and install any missing dependencies, such as wl-clipboard or xclip/xsel, win32yank, pwsh.exe, rg, and fd.

🔌 Plugins

Managed with vim.pack:

• neovim/nvim-lspconfig
• lewis6991/gitsigns.nvim
• nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter
• nvim-mini/mini.splitjoin
• nvim-mini/mini.pick
• nvim-mini/mini.extra
• williamboman/mason.nvim
• rafamadriz/friendly-snippets

Included in the repo, not fetched as plugins:

• melange colorscheme in colors/melange.lua (originally from savq/melange-nvim)

Optional, currently disabled:

• ibhagwan/fzf-lua (fallback picker; uncomment in lua/plugins.lua and requires fzf)

🚗 TODO