CosmicNvim VS nvim-lspconfig

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Hi everyone! I’m happy to announce that CosmicNvim now includes first-class support for 4 additional themes on top of the default for a total of 5 themes to choose from! The current selection: - [Catppuccino](https://github.com/Pocco81/Catppuccino.nvim) - [Gruvbox](https://github.com/ellisonleao/gruvbox.nvim) - [Rose-pine](https://github.com/rose-pine/neovim) - [Nord](https://github.com/shaunsingh/nord.nvim) - [Tokyonight](https://github.com/folke/tokyonight.nvim) Repo: https://github.com/mattleong/CosmicNvim (⭐️’s are very appreciated!) I’ve previously said that I wouldn’t implement first class theme support for CosmicNvim outside of the default theme… Well, I guess I changed my mind. 😅 For one, it’s probably been the most requested feature. For another, I want to be able to swap and play around with themes easily as well. My initial reason for _not_ wanting to include additional theme support was because I was worried about what sort of complexity it would bring. Turns out it’s not so bad and doesn’t overly bloat the codebase. If you have any suggestions for themes you’d like to see implemented, please feel free to drop them in the open [issue](https://github.com/mattleong/CosmicNvim/issues/25)!

If you have any suggestions for themes you’d like to see implemented, please feel free to drop them in the open issue!

I'm currently using CosmicNvim along with Bufferline. I have bufferline configured to run `:bdelete! %d` as the close command, but event calling `:bdelete` directly has the same result: neovim is closed completely rather than just the current buffer.

You can check out my config here: https://github.com/mattleong/CosmicNvim

But I didn't do enough research on Cosmic. Installation seemed simple enough. Just git clone. So I backed up my nvim folder and installed it. Carelessly went through the installer. Decided it also wasn't for me. Rather than try to uninstall it, I renamed the folder 'nvim_cosmic' just in case, reverted back to my previous nvim folder, and there's tons of lua related errors.

And currently testing out Cosmic. Just made a backup of my nvim folder first.

Take a look at CosmicNvim! (Disclaimer: I’m the author)

Can’t think of any reasons why Cosmic wouldn’t work on WSL. Haven’t tested it though.

I suggest looking for blog posts about this, you're gunnuh wanna pick out a plugin manager and stuff. It's kind of like a package manager for neovim. You can install everything manually but usually you manually install a plugin manager and it gives you commands to manage the rest of your plugins.

These two plugins are the bare minimum in my view.

https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter

Treesitter gives you much better syntax highlighting based on a parser for a given language.

https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig

This plugin helps you connect to a given language LSP quickly with sensible defaults. You more or less pick your language from here and copy paste a snippet, and then install the relevant LSP:

https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig/blob/master/doc/ser...

For Python you'll want pylsp. For JavaScript it will depend on what frontend framework you're using, I probably can't help you there.

pylsp itself takes some plugins and you'll probably want them. https://github.com/python-lsp/python-lsp-server

Best of luck! Happy hacking.

Adding language support it neovim isn't very difficult once you're setup. I use nvim-lspconfig[1] and just about any language you could need is documented[2]. But like others have mentioned there are batteries included distributions of neovim if that's your cup of tea.

[1]: https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig/

[2]: https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig/blob/master/doc/ser...

If we can't find the basic usage in the documentation we can go to nvim-lspconfig's github repository. In there we look for a folder called server_configurations, this contains configuration files for a bunch of language servers.

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.

This specific issue talks about fixing clangd for that error: https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig/issues/2184. The issue is ongoing for ccls AFAIK but for clangd, this has been discussed and fixed in the past already.

I am trying to set up the pbkit language server for protobuf files. Since it is not part of the nvim-lspconfig repo's server configurations, I have to figure the way out myself. It doesn't seem to be too difficult, as I can start from the bufls configuration there. The following is what I have at the moment:

I have configured neovim with lspconfig and mason. Added the suggested configuration of the lsp config(https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig) to ~/.config/nvim/after/plugin/lsp.lua Then I installed via mason the following language servers:

Personally, i think nvim-lint is the best alternative currently, specially so because it has no dependencies on external binaries. This guide assumes you already have your LSP set up with nvim-lspconfig (or an alternative like lsp-zero). You should also have an way to install the linters you are gonna need, i highly recommend Mason with mason-lspconfig.

Basically neovim can act as a client to a variety of different language servers (https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig/blob/master/doc/ser...) which give neovim IDE capabilities. This can be done in original Vim also but requires external plugins which can be a pain to compile and install. Neovim has it built in.

I'm struggling to get [sqlls](https://github.com/joe-re/sql-language-server) with [nvim-lspconfig](https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig) to use Postgres syntax.