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Customizing Your Lazyvim Setup for Personal Preferences (Part 2)

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Table Of Contents

  1. Folder Structure Tree of LazyVim
  2. Overview of the bullet points

Welcome back, my friends!

I know, I know, it's been a while since we last delved into the wonderful world of LazyVim customization.

In Part 1, we laid the groundwork with LazyVim, establishing a solid foundation for our Neovim journey. Now, it's time to take things to the next level – personalization!

In the next section, I want to express my gratitude to Takuya Matsuyama, who is a true inspiration to me. I have learned a great deal from his work, and I am deeply appreciative of his contributions to the field.

And now, let's start cowboy 🤠🤠🤠.

Folder Structure Tree of LazyVim

Before starting to customize anything, we need to quickly look through the default File Structure Diagram of Lazy.vim to get an overview of it.
For more information: General Settings

~/.config/nvim
├── lua
│   ├── config
│   │   ├── autocmds.lua
│   │   ├── keymaps.lua
│   │   ├── lazy.lua
│   │   └── options.lua
│   └── plugins
│       ├── spec1.lua
│       ├── **
│       └── spec2.lua
└── init.toml
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  • autocmds.lua (auto commands): are used to automatically execute specific commands or functions in response to certain events in the editors.

Greatly enhance your Vim workflow, it very wonderful 😍.

  • keymaps (key mappings): are configurations that define custom keyboard shortcuts. These mappings allow users to bind specific keys or combinations of keys to Vim commands, functions, or scripts, … thereby streamlining their workflow and making repetitive tasks quicker and easier.

Suppose you don’t know about Key Mappings. In that case, I think this is a useful blog to get started with: Basic Vim Mapping.
Thanks for the great post!

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  • lazy.lua: this is a place to set the default configuration of the Lazy.vim

  • options.lua (optional): you can set anything to custom your Vim if you want like: autoindent, smartindent, hlsearch, showcmd, shiftwidth, … I will show my config later 🫣

Overview of the bullet points

Now, we are an overview of the bullet points I will configure in the next section:

As you configure each plugin, it's a good idea to save your changes and restart nvim quickly. This helps you catch any errors right away and makes troubleshooting smoother down the line. Think of it like a mini test drive after each tweak! 🤠🤠🤠

Solarized Osaka theme:

To change your theme create a file like colorscheme.lua
Create: lua/plugins/colorscheme.lua and config:

return {
  {
    "craftzdog/solarized-osaka.nvim",
    branch = "osaka",
    lazy = true,
    priority = 1000,
    opts = function()
      return {
        transparent = true,
      }
    end,
  },
}
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After config, you restart and see the theme:

Awesome 🥸🥸🥸!!!

Solarized Osaka theme

Key Mappings

The LazyVim has already configured many things for me now, but I added some customizations like those in the file: lua/config/keymaps.lua

local keymap = vim.keymap
local opts = { noremap = true, silent = true }

keymap.set("n", "x", '"_x')

-- Increment/decrement
keymap.set("n", "+", "<C-a>")
keymap.set("n", "-", "<C-x>")

-- Delete a word backwards
keymap.set("n", "dw", 'vb"_d')

-- Select all
keymap.set("n", "<C-a>", "gg<S-v>G")

-- Save with root permission (not working for now)
--vim.api.nvim_create_user_command('W', 'w !sudo tee > /dev/null %', {})

-- Disable continuations
keymap.set("n", "<Leader>o", "o<Esc>^Da", opts)
keymap.set("n", "<Leader>O", "O<Esc>^Da", opts)

-- Jumplist
keymap.set("n", "<C-m>", "<C-i>", opts)

-- New tab
keymap.set("n", "te", ":tabedit")
keymap.set("n", "<tab>", ":tabnext<Return>", opts)
keymap.set("n", "<s-tab>", ":tabprev<Return>", opts)
-- Split window
keymap.set("n", "ss", ":split<Return>", opts)
keymap.set("n", "sv", ":vsplit<Return>", opts)
-- Move window
keymap.set("n", "sh", "<C-w>h")
keymap.set("n", "sk", "<C-w>k")
keymap.set("n", "sj", "<C-w>j")
keymap.set("n", "sl", "<C-w>l")

-- Resize window
keymap.set("n", "<C-w><left>", "<C-w><")
keymap.set("n", "<C-w><right>", "<C-w>>")
keymap.set("n", "<C-w><up>", "<C-w>+")
keymap.set("n", "<C-w><down>", "<C-w>-")

-- Pick a buffer
keymap.set("n", "<Leader>1", "<Cmd>BufferLineGoToBuffer 1<CR>", {})
keymap.set("n", "<Leader>2", "<Cmd>BufferLineGoToBuffer 2<CR>", {})
keymap.set("n", "<Leader>3", "<Cmd>BufferLineGoToBuffer 3<CR>", {})
keymap.set("n", "<Leader>4", "<Cmd>BufferLineGoToBuffer 4<CR>", {})
keymap.set("n", "<Leader>5", "<Cmd>BufferLineGoToBuffer 5<CR>", {})
keymap.set("n", "<Leader>6", "<Cmd>BufferLineGoToBuffer 6<CR>", {})
keymap.set("n", "<Leader>9", "<Cmd>BufferLineGoToBuffer -1<CR>", {})

-- Moving text
-- Move text up and down
keymap.set("n", "<C-Down>", "<Esc>:m .+1<CR>", opts)
keymap.set("n", "<C-Up>", "<Esc>:m .-2<CR>", opts)
keymap.set("v", "<C-Down>", ":m .+1<CR>", opts)
keymap.set("v", "<C-Up>", ":m .-2<CR>", opts)
keymap.set("x", "<C-Down>", ":move '>+1<CR>gv-gv", opts)
keymap.set("x", "<C-Up>", ":move '<-2<CR>gv-gv", opts)

-- Diagnostics
keymap.set("n", "<C-j>", function()
    vim.diagnostic.goto_next()
end, opts)
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Auto Commands

lua/config/autocmds.lua

I don’t want to show concealing when using json and markdown files and turn off paste mode when leaving insert. So, I set conceallevel to 0 for json files and turned off paste mode like below.

If you want to use them, you can skip this config file 🙄

-- Turn off paste mode when leaving insert
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("InsertLeave", {
  pattern = "*",
  command = "set nopaste",
})

-- Disable the concealing in some file formats
-- The default conceallevel is 3 in LazyVim
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("FileType", {
  pattern = { "json", "jsonc", "markdown" },
  callback = function()
    vim.opt.conceallevel = 0
  end,
})
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Awesome 🥸🥸🥸!!!

Concealling levevel

Options Configuration Vim

I have some config for default Vim, it’s only just an old config for normal nvim in the past: lua/config/options.lua. I will omit to explain this file 🫣

vim.g.mapleader = " "

vim.opt.encoding = "utf-8"
vim.opt.fileencoding = "utf-8"

vim.opt.spell = true
vim.opt.spelllang = { "en_us" }

vim.opt.number = true

vim.opt.title = true
vim.opt.autoindent = true
vim.opt.smartindent = true
vim.opt.hlsearch = true
vim.opt.backup = false
vim.opt.showcmd = true
vim.opt.cmdheight = 1
vim.opt.laststatus = 2
vim.opt.expandtab = true
vim.opt.scrolloff = 10
vim.opt.shell = "fish"
vim.opt.backupskip = { "/tmp/*", "/private/tmp/*" }
vim.opt.inccommand = "split"
vim.opt.ignorecase = true -- Case insensitive searching UNLESS /C or capital in search
vim.opt.smarttab = true
vim.opt.breakindent = true
vim.opt.shiftwidth = 2
vim.opt.tabstop = 2
vim.opt.wrap = false -- No Wrap lines
vim.opt.backspace = { "start", "eol", "indent" }
vim.opt.path:append({ "**" }) -- Finding files - Search down into subfolders
vim.opt.wildignore:append({ "*/node_modules/*" })
vim.opt.splitbelow = true -- Put new windows below current
vim.opt.splitright = true -- Put new windows right of current
vim.opt.splitkeep = "cursor"
vim.opt.mouse = ""
vim.g.deprecation_warnings = true

-- Undercurl
vim.cmd([[let &t_Cs = "\e[4:3m"]])
vim.cmd([[let &t_Ce = "\e[4:0m"]])

-- Add asterisks in block comments
vim.opt.formatoptions:append({ "r" })

vim.cmd([[au BufNewFile,BufRead *.astro setf astro]])
vim.cmd([[au BufNewFile,BufRead Podfile setf ruby]])

if vim.fn.has("nvim-0.8") == 1 then
    vim.opt.cmdheight = 0
end
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Honestly, I don’t want this post to be too long, so I’ll cover the Plugin configuration section in the next article.

My dotfiles configurations:

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This repo leverages GNU Stow to simplify symlink management, making it easy to install and update configurations across different machines.

fish screenshot nvim screenshot

Warning: Don’t blindly use my settings unless you know what that entails. Use at your own risk!

📌 Contents

  • Neovim – Custom plugins, keybindings, and themes
  • Tmux – Optimized terminal workflow
  • Git – Configuration for efficient version control
  • Karabiner – Custom key mappings for Vim efficiency
  • Fish Shell – Enhanced terminal experience
  • GNU Stow – Simple dotfiles management

🚀 Setting Up a New Machine with This Repo

This repository uses GNU Stow to manage dotfiles efficiently with symlinks. Follow these steps to set up your new machine:

1. Install Required Packages

Install Stow & Essential Tools

macOS:

brew install stow git fish tmux neovim
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Linux (Debian/Ubuntu):

sudo apt update && sudo apt install stow git fish tmux neovim
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Linux (Arch):

sudo pacman -S stow git fish tmux neovim
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Install Fisher

A plugin manager for Fish
macOS:

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jorgebucaran/fisher/main/functions/fisher.fish | source && fisher install jorgebucaran/fisher
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Install Tide after installed

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Lorenzo Bettini •

I look forward to the third part!

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Thanks for your waiting. I'll be back soon 😁