nvim-treesitter-refactor VS nvim-lspconfig

Maybe this? nvim-treesitter-refactor

These days though I'm using the https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter-refactor plugin. It goes one step further and only highlights the matches that are in the same scope. Makes a big difference in a lot of programming languages where you use the same variable named in a lot of smaller functions/methods right next to each other.

My desires are not sated, but it seems quite nice. (I recall treesitter-refactor has a similar scope highlighter, but it could be a bit aggressive near root scope -- this might be a more gentle version.

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

Treesitter performance is a hard problem. First, check the following: 1. Do you use nvim_treesitter#foldexpr()? Try not to use foldmethod=expr in insert mode. Or just switch to nvim-ufo. 2. Do you use nvim-treesitter-refactor's highlight_definitions or highlight_current_scope? These features do slower the performance. Try to disable these features. 3. I've heard some language parser is not good in terms of performance. Since I don't write haskell, I can't help you here. But you can create issue in nvim-treesitter.

For instance, with plugins like nvim-treesitter-refactor and ray-x/navigator.lua, you can use a bunch of commands like "go to definition" and "smart rename" without an LSP server.

TS Refactor

If you have treesitter, you can use nvim-treesitter-refactor. It has the highlight_definitions option that will highlight the definitions of a variable.

Oh! I've actually never tried Emacs text navigation. My brief stint with Emacs was with Spacemacs (w/ the evil-mode plugin). If I knew any lisp when I had given Spacemacs a whirl then there's a chance I may have stuck with it. I've played with Clojure a bit. Ah, it appears that you're a data-eng -- heavy on the Python. Are you trying to mimic something that PyCharm provides? I'm just happy that LSP has come where it has in such little time and that's already improved working with code in various languages quite a bit. Neovim moves incredibly fast and having LuaJIT with support for Lua had completely opened the floodgates for ports of old Vim plugins and made way for newer ones with floating windows/floating terminals. There are two projects each with hundreds of stars on GitHub meant to mimic or one-up org-mode (one has an entirely new spec) with immense development activity. The one-up that Neovim has over Vim presently is tree-sitter (because the core team wrote a wrapper) and exposes a Lua interface for plugin devs that want to use it. It's been neat for themes and my new favorite find-and-replace plugin (https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter-refactor). Because there's type data coming from the AST, it's much less likely to have accidental replacements (if at all). It looks like Emacs is making some headway here, though: https://github.com/emacs-tree-sitter

You can also navigate between the highlights using treesitter-refactor: https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter-refactor

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:

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.

I see where you're coming from. FWIW, I've been using Neovim for an odd 7 years or so and only use plugins where absolutely necessary. I'll usually just add an appropriate BufWritePost (trigger after saving the buffer) autocommand for the language's file extension that does what I want. Or I'll add a keybind in .config/nvim/ftplugin/.vim (or .lua).

The default LSP client config at https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig#suggested-configura... sets everything up for you, if you're using an LSP server. I'm not sure why it hasn't been merged into the Neovim repo; possibly because they want to keep the editor core fast and minimal.

All this means you have to do a little more configuring than with something like VSCode, but to be honest, I haven't legitimately needed to make big changes to my config in a few years. There's stuff I add for fun (like little lua scripts to manage my clipboard and to layout tabs the way I want), but to maintain a 'VSCode' level of functionality none of it's needed. The advantage of spending a little extra time, for me, has been that my edit 'fits like a glove', so to speak :)