janus
Vim distribution (by carlhuda)
mason.nvim
Portable package manager for Neovim that runs everywhere Neovim runs. Easily install and manage LSP servers, DAP servers, linters, and formatters. (by williamboman)
| janus | mason.nvim | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 108 | |
| 7,874 | 6,816 | |
| -0.0% | - | |
| 0.0 | 7.7 | |
| about 2 years ago | 2 days ago | |
| Vim Script | Lua | |
| - | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
janus
Posts with mentions or reviews of janus.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-02.
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Are you all nuts?
For whatever reason, Vim distros tend to die off. I started with Janus in 2014. But some things in that distro are badly dated (CtrlP and Syntastic for example).
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What "set and forget" flexible VIM setup would you recommend?
When I started with Vim (2011), i used https://github.com/carlhuda/janus It came with a much of good defaults, conventions, and setup. It hasn't had active development lately. I used Janus for about 2 years before I was comfortable enough to start my own setup from the ground up.
mason.nvim
Posts with mentions or reviews of mason.nvim.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-21.
- I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own (it wasn't easy)
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Using a venv with Neovim's Python LSP
I recently started coding with Neovim using kickstart.nvim as the template for my editor configuration. I downloaded the python-lsp-server package using Mason, but I was disappointed to discover that the IntelliSense on my third party dependencies didn't work. The LSP was resolving to my global Python installation, which did not have the packages from my virtual environment (venv) installed.
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Do I need NeoVIM?
https://github.com/hrsh7th/nvim-cmp This is an autocompletion engine https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter This allows NeoVim to install parsing scripts so NeoVim can do things like code highlighting. https://github.com/williamboman/mason.nvim Not strictly necessary, but allows you to access a repo of LSP, install them, and configure them for without you actively messing about in config files. https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig Also not strictly necessary, but vastly simplifies LSP setup. https://github.com/williamboman/mason-lspconfig.nvim This lets the above two plugins talk to each other more easily.
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Do I need a plugin manager ?
I'm using mason.nvim to install my dependencies, I've this snippet at nvim/plugin/mason.lua so after cloning my dotfiles I can just run:
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Mason can't install gopls (or gofumpt, or goimports)
The suggestion from this thread fixed it for me. I just needed to unset GOOS and GOARCH then restart neovim.
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Neovim documentation is pretty bad
For instance, I'm trying to install rust-analyzer in lazyvim from https://github.com/williamboman/mason.nvim. The installation instructions are:
- LazyVim
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How do you enable semantic highlighting for Python?
I have pyright installed via mason which apparently support "semantic token highlighting" but have been having a hard time getting these colors to show up in a buffer. It seems Neovim has changed how it handles semantic highlighting a few times so there's still some conflicting information online. It's hard to know what's current and what's not. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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language server not installed or missing from path
Use mason to install the language servers you want.
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Why is nobody using CoC anymore?
Because null-ls.nvim & mason.nvim together do everything I wanted CoC for
What are some alternatives?
When comparing janus and mason.nvim you can also consider the following projects:
nvimdots - A well configured and structured Neovim.
lazy-lsp.nvim - Neovim plugin to auto install LSP servers
SpaceVim - A community-driven modular vim/neovim distribution - The ultimate vimrc
coc.nvim - Nodejs extension host for vim & neovim, load extensions like VSCode and host language servers.
lsp-zero.nvim - A starting point to setup some lsp related features in neovim.
null-ls.nvim - Use Neovim as a language server to inject LSP diagnostics, code actions, and more via Lua.
kickstart.nvim - A launch point for your personal nvim configuration
omnisharp-vim - Vim omnicompletion (intellisense) and more for C#
helix - A post-modern modal text editor.
formatter.nvim
nvim - My neovim config
neoformat - :sparkles: A (Neo)vim plugin for formatting code.