DEV Community: Manpreet Singh

🚀 My Neovim Configuration

Manpreet Singh — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:06:11 +0000

⭐ If you find this config helpful, please star the repository! It motivates me to keep improving and adding new features.

A modern, feature-rich Neovim configuration built with Lua and managed by lazy.nvim. Organized, fast, and beautiful - just the way it should be.

📸 Screenshots

Dashboard

Coding Interface

File Explorer

Command Palette

✨ Features

🎨 Beautiful UI - Catppuccin theme with optional transparency
🎯 Centered Command Palette - Noice.nvim for beautiful cmdline with icons
📦 Smart Plugin Management - lazy.nvim with organized structure
🔍 Fuzzy Finding - Snacks picker for files, grep, buffers
🌳 File Explorer - Snacks explorer (nvim-tree and oil.nvim also available)
💡 Full LSP Support - Auto-completion, diagnostics, and formatting
🎯 GitHub Copilot - AI-powered code completion
🔄 Git Integration - LazyGit integration with diff support
📊 Smart Statusline - Shows git status, diagnostics, and "I use Arch btw"
🧪 Testing - vim-test integration
📝 Markdown & API Preview - Live preview for markdown and Swagger/OpenAPI
🐳 Docker Management - LazyDocker integration
🎭 Discord Presence - Show what you're coding with cord.nvim
🎵 Now Playing - Dashboard shows current song via playerctl
🎨 Code Folding - nvim-ufo for smart folding
⚡ Fast Startup - Optimized lazy loading (~80ms with 26+ plugins)

📋 Requirements

Neovim >= 0.9.0
Git
A Nerd Font (recommended: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font)
Node.js (for LSP servers and Copilot)
Ripgrep (for grep functionality)
LazyGit (optional, for git integration)
LazyDocker (optional, for docker management)
tmux (for splitting tabs)

🚀 Installation

Linux/macOS

# Backup your existing config (if any)
mv ~/.config/nvim ~/.config/nvim.backup

# Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/MannuVilasara/nvim.git ~/.config/nvim

# Start Neovim
nvim

Lazy.nvim will automatically install all plugins on first launch.

📦 Plugins

Plugins are organized into categories for better maintainability. See STRUCTURE.md for the complete organization guide.

Core

lazy.nvim - Modern plugin manager
plenary.nvim - Lua utility functions

UI & Appearance (`lua/plugins/ui/`)

catppuccin - Beautiful color scheme with transparency support
lualine.nvim - Customizable statusline with git, diagnostics, and OS info
bufferline.nvim - Buffer/tab line with navigation shortcuts
noice.nvim - Enhanced cmdline with centered popup and icons
nvim-web-devicons - File icons everywhere
nvim-colorizer.lua - Live color preview
dressing.nvim - Better UI for input/select
fidget.nvim - LSP progress notifications
snacks.nvim - Dashboard with now playing and utilities

Editor (`lua/plugins/editor/`)

nvim-treesitter - Better syntax highlighting and code understanding
nvim-autopairs - Auto-close brackets and quotes
comment.nvim - Smart commenting (gcc, gbc)
which-key.nvim - Keybinding hints popup
nvim-ufo - Smart code folding with treesitter
nvim-tree.lua - File explorer sidebar
oil.nvim - Edit filesystem like a buffer

LSP & Completion (`lua/plugins/lsp/`)

nvim-lspconfig - Easy LSP server configurations
nvim-cmp - Powerful completion engine
cmp-nvim-lsp - LSP completion source
cmp-buffer - Buffer word completion
cmp-path - File path completion
LuaSnip - Snippet engine
cmp_luasnip - Snippet completion source
none-ls.nvim - Formatting and linting
conform.nvim - Fast code formatter

Tools (`lua/plugins/tools/`)

copilot.lua - GitHub Copilot integration
toggleterm.nvim - Terminal management
lazydocker.nvim - Docker TUI integration
vim-test - Test runner
cord.nvim - Discord Rich Presence
nvim-tmux-navigation - Seamless tmux/vim navigation
rails.nvim - Ruby on Rails utilities
markdown-preview.nvim - Live markdown preview
swagger-preview.nvim - Swagger/OpenAPI preview

⌨️ Key Bindings

General

<leader> is set to Space

Dashboard (Snacks)

f - Find File
n - New File
g - Find Text (Grep)
r - Recent Files
c - Open Config
L - Lazy Plugin Manager
q - Quit

Fuzzy Finding

<C-p> - Find Files
<leader><leader> - Recent Files
<leader>fb - Buffers
<leader>fg - Grep Files
<leader>p - Command Palette
<leader>fh - Help Pages
<leader>fc - Colorschemes
<leader>fk - Keymaps

File Explorer

<leader>ee - Toggle Explorer

Buffer Navigation

Tab - Next Buffer
Shift+Tab - Previous Buffer
<leader>bd - Delete Buffer
<leader>bb - Pick Buffer
<leader>b1-9 - Go to Buffer 1-9

Git

<leader>lg - LazyGit
<leader>gl - LazyGit Log (current file)

Scratch Buffer

<leader>sf - Toggle Scratch Buffer
<leader>S - Select Scratch Buffer

Code Folding (UFO)

zR - Open all folds
zM - Close all folds
za - Toggle fold under cursor
zj - Go to next fold
zk - Go to previous fold

Fidget Notifications (Demo)

<leader>na - Info notification
<leader>nb - Warning notification
<leader>nc - Notification with annotation
<leader>np - Progress spinner demo

🎨 Customization

Transparency Toggle

Edit lua/plugins/ui/catppuccin.lua and change:

local transparent = true -- Set to false to disable transparency

Changing Theme Variant

In lua/plugins/ui/catppuccin.lua, change the colorscheme command:

vim.cmd.colorscheme("catppuccin-mocha")  -- mocha, macchiato, frappe, or latte

Adding Plugins

Add new plugin files in the appropriate category:

UI plugins → lua/plugins/ui/
Editor plugins → lua/plugins/editor/
LSP plugins → lua/plugins/lsp/
Tools → lua/plugins/tools/

They will be automatically loaded by lazy.nvim.

Modifying Keybindings

Core options: lua/core/options.lua (or lua/vim-options.lua if not migrated)
Plugin-specific: Edit the individual plugin file

📁 Project Structure

~/.config/nvim/
├── init.lua                    # Entry point with lazy.nvim setup
├── lazy-lock.json              # Plugin version lock file
├── STRUCTURE.md                # Organization guide
├── reorganize.sh               # Migration script
├── README.md                   # This file
│
├── lua/
│   ├── core/                   # Core configuration (optional, organized structure)
│   │   └── options.lua         # Vim options and settings
│   │
│   ├── vim-options.lua         # Vim options (legacy, can be migrated to core/)
│   ├── plugins.lua             # Lazy.nvim bootstrap
│   │
│   └── plugins/                # Plugin configurations (organized by category)
│       ├── ui/                 # UI & Appearance
│       │   ├── catppuccin.lua
│       │   ├── lualine.lua
│       │   ├── bufferline.lua
│       │   ├── noice.lua
│       │   ├── snacks.lua
│       │   ├── dressing.lua
│       │   ├── fidget.lua
│       │   └── nvim-colorizer.lua
│       │
│       ├── editor/             # Editor enhancements
│       │   ├── treesitter.lua
│       │   ├── autopairs.lua
│       │   ├── comment.lua
│       │   ├── which-key.lua
│       │   ├── ufo.lua
│       │   ├── nvim-tree.lua
│       │   └── oil.lua
│       │
│       ├── lsp/                # LSP & Completion
│       │   ├── lsp-config.lua
│       │   ├── completions.lua
│       │   ├── none-ls.lua
│       │   └── formatting.lua
│       │
│       ├── git/                # Git tools (future)
│       │
│       └── tools/              # Development tools
│           ├── copilot.lua
│           ├── toggleterm.lua
│           ├── lazydocker.lua
│           ├── vim-test.lua
│           ├── cord.lua
│           └── ...

🔧 Troubleshooting

Plugins not installing

# Inside Neovim
:Lazy sync

LSP not working

# Inside Neovim
:LspInfo
:Mason

Treesitter errors

# Inside Neovim
:TSUpdate

💡 Tips

Health Check - Use :checkhealth to diagnose issues
Plugin Manager - Run :Lazy to manage plugins
LSP Servers - Use :Mason to install LSP servers, formatters, and linters
Keybinding Help - Press <leader> and wait to see available keybindings (which-key)
Transparency - Toggle in lua/plugins/ui/catppuccin.lua with one line
Now Playing - Dashboard shows your current song via playerctl (Spotify, VLC, etc.)
Command Palette - Press : for centered command palette with icons
Code Folding - Use za to toggle folds, zR/zM to open/close all

🙏 Acknowledgments

Thanks to the Neovim community and all plugin authors for their amazing work!

Special thanks to:

folke - For lazy.nvim, noice.nvim, and snacks.nvim
catppuccin - For the beautiful theme
The entire Neovim community for making this possible

⭐ Support

If this configuration helped you or inspired your setup, please consider:

⭐ Starring the repository - It really motivates me!
🍴 Forking and customizing - Make it your own
🐛 Reporting issues - Help improve it for everyone
💬 Sharing feedback - Let me know what you think

Star the repo if you found it helpful! It means a lot to me! ⭐

Note: I use Arch btw 🐧

My hactoberfest this year

Manpreet Singh — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:50:42 +0000

Hacktoberfest has always been a nice start for contributors. This year I contributed into two repositories.

I got two prs merged at forem/forem this year. I recently found out that there's actually a dev badge for contributing to forem as well. I hope I'll receive it too if someone notice the post haha 😄

The other repository I found was from the digital ocean's discord and I did some really meaningful contributions. The maintainer and I became good friends and he asked me if I wanna help him maintain the repository. So I was mostly maintaining the project alongside contributing to it as well.

This year taught me how to properly manage a repository structure. how we can guide the contributors & how we help them get started. I've always been writing the structured code which is always good for others to understand and work on and I got really positive reviews from contributors as well that they really liked working on the issues that were assigned to them.

I helped almost every contributor to do meaningful contributions, letting them know what exactly should we do clearly as communicating effectively is the key. I got one of my team member (friend) to get started with opensource and he's been really motivated to contribute more to opensource in the free time.

I've even learnt some new tech alongside the working with open-source. contributing to forem helped me learn so many things how scalable products are made. Its really fun to study system designs :)

At last I would say that this hacktoberfest has been really great for me. plus point is I got tees as well so I have something to show off too 😄
I hope u guys liked the post. I'm not really as good at writing but trust me, my code-bases are really clean & easy to navigate.

My zsh config

Manpreet Singh — Sun, 26 May 2024 08:02:55 +0000

My .zshrc file [zinit]

to use it make sure u have following dependencies

make sure your terminal support true colours and icons. use nerd fonts for terminal
install dependenices git, zsh, fzf, zoxide, thefuck

# Ubuntu or any debian based distro
sudo apt install zsh git fzf zoxide thefuck

# Arch based distro
yay -S zsh git fzf zoxide thefuck # replace yay with paru if u use paru

# install my .zshrc
git clone https://github.com/MannuVilasara/dotZshrc.git
cd dotZshrc
mv ~/.zshrc ~/.zshrc.bak
mv .zshrc ~/
zsh

The powerlevel-10k configuration will start automatically, if it doesn't type p10k configure to start it or reconfigure it.

Make sure to star the repo ⭐

Hactoberfest Completed

Manpreet Singh — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 03:59:04 +0000

Feeling happy to complete my first hactoberfest. It was good experience. In the time left, I will try to contribute more.

HactoberFest Report

Manpreet Singh — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 03:22:20 +0000

This is my first time doing hactoberfest and this is my progress so far
My first 3 merged PR got accepted waiting for the other one to get merged. Still I won't stop there gonna contribute as much as I can to opensource.

also got tree planted by hactobefest

furthermore I received some badged for everything

Hactoberfest 2023 Pledge

Manpreet Singh — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 14:58:16 +0000

Intro

Hey fellows!
I am Mannu from India and I am happy to part of hactoberfest 2023. This is actually my first time doing hactoberfest so preety much excited for that.

Pledge

I pledge to be helpful contributor. I won't stop here. I will continue contributing to opensource.

Desktop Showcase

Manpreet Singh — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 18:28:13 +0000

Drop your desktop screenshots here :)
Here's Mine

Get Your Spotify refresh token easily.....

Manpreet Singh — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 08:34:21 +0000

How to get Spotify refresh token?

Getting client id and client secret

1.First of all go to Spotify developer Dashboard and click on create app

2.Name your app Anything and give it any description you like.....

3.Add http://localhost:3000/ as redirect uri.....

As below

Setting up Environment

1.just open cmd prompt in any folder and run this cmd

git clone https://github.com/MannuVilasara/get-Spotify-refresh-token.git

2.then open it in vs code

run this

npm install

3.open app.js and replace client id and client secret with your client id and client secret

Getting refresh token

now just only few things are left.....

1.type this cmd

npm start

and open this link in your browser....

2.enter your client id and client secret in the text boxes

Click on Request Authorization and Complete the authorization on next page

3.Click F12 or developer tools in the browser and go to application => local storage => http://localhost:3000/

There You will get refresh token and access token....

enjoy.....

Like if it helps

Unleashing my Keyboard Kung Fu on the Community.

Manpreet Singh — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 18:32:24 +0000

# Developer Introduction

# Greetings, fellow code warriors!

# Initializing variables
name = "Mannu"
passion = "coding"
caffeine_level = 9000

# Printing introduction
print("Hey there, fellow developers!")
print("I'm", name + ",", "a", passion, "enthusiast with a caffeine level of", caffeine_level)

# Sharing coding adventures
print("The digital world has always fascinated me, so I'm on a quest to conquer programming challenges.")
print("From battling stubborn bugs to crafting elegant algorithms, I'm always ready to dive into the wild world of code.")

# Adding a touch of humor
print("But hey, it's not all serious business!")
print("When I'm not lost in lines of code, you can catch me debating the eternal struggle of tabs vs. spaces,")
print("or engaging in heated discussions about the best way to name variables (camelCase for life!)")

# Expressing excitement
print("Now, here I am, knocking on the virtual doors of this amazing developer community.")
print("I can't wait to meet fellow warriors who share my passion for pixel-perfect designs and logical thinking.")

# Farewell message
print("Happy coding,")
print(name + " A.K.A. ! Not Pro")

Btw I am also looking for gf....

DEV Community: Manpreet Singh

🚀 My Neovim Configuration

📸 Screenshots

Dashboard

Coding Interface

File Explorer

Command Palette

✨ Features

📋 Requirements

🚀 Installation

Linux/macOS

📦 Plugins

Core

UI & Appearance (lua/plugins/ui/)

Editor (lua/plugins/editor/)

LSP & Completion (lua/plugins/lsp/)

Tools (lua/plugins/tools/)

⌨️ Key Bindings

General

Dashboard (Snacks)

Fuzzy Finding

File Explorer

Buffer Navigation

Git

Scratch Buffer

Code Folding (UFO)

Fidget Notifications (Demo)

🎨 Customization

Transparency Toggle

Changing Theme Variant

Adding Plugins

Modifying Keybindings

📁 Project Structure

🔧 Troubleshooting

Plugins not installing

LSP not working

Treesitter errors

💡 Tips

🙏 Acknowledgments

⭐ Support

My hactoberfest this year

My zsh config

My .zshrc file [zinit]

Hactoberfest Completed

HactoberFest Report

also got tree planted by hactobefest

furthermore I received some badged for everything

Hactoberfest 2023 Pledge

Intro

Pledge

Desktop Showcase

Get Your Spotify refresh token easily.....

How to get Spotify refresh token?

Getting client id and client secret

Setting up Environment

Getting refresh token

Unleashing my Keyboard Kung Fu on the Community.

UI & Appearance (`lua/plugins/ui/`)

Editor (`lua/plugins/editor/`)

LSP & Completion (`lua/plugins/lsp/`)

Tools (`lua/plugins/tools/`)