nvim-web-devicons VS coc-ccls

I know you moved on dotfiles, which is good, but you will probably want to install https://github.com/nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons to get those icons for other plugins

This is already done I think, unless more fixes are needed https://github.com/nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons/pull/264

Motivation: I have been using Emacs for years but I never really sit down and wrote any serious elisp code myself. This time things changed because I saw the nvim-web-devicons. I like trying various kinds of editors, and then I found this devicons from vim editor so good. I really like it especially because it works in the terminal. People always say Emacs is best within GUI but there are times when you have to edit something in a terminal and maybe some like me just like terminal aesthetics. I mean I really like this devicons theme from vim but I never really liked vim keybindings. I want it to be part of Emacs so bad so I finally decided to learn some elisp and make it happen.

Did you install this plugin?

Did you install https://github.com/nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons ?

nvim-web-devicons is a plugin that maps filetypes to icons in a patched font and colors for those icons. It has default settings for both the icons and colors for many common filetypes, but they can be customized and you can add support for your own filetypes.

It uses plugins called renderer to change how the file tree is renderer and it has two plugins for render icons in the tree that support lambdalisue/nerdfont.vim and ryanoasis/vim-devicons, but it lacked support for nvim-web-devicons.

I'm configuring neovim 0.8 on windows. I've installed nvim-tree plugin with its icons nvim-web-devicons. After the installation I cannot see properly the icons in the tree. This is the screenshot with the tree and the configuration part about those plugins:

The "look" you're looking for is given by a bunch of plugins: - OneDark.nvim as colorscheme - TS Rainbow for rainbow brackets - BarBar for bufferline - Nvim Devicons and NerdFonts to view file icons - NvimTree as a file manager - Indent Blankline to show indentation guides - CompetiTest with vertical split UI - Feline as statusline plugin. In the screenshot feline is configured with a custom theme. As you can see statusline is different for CompetiTest buffers: a different statusline can be configured for every different filetype using conditional_config.

I just did a fresh reinstall of CoC, on a newer version of Neovim. I'm now seeing something I hadn't seen before, which CoC calls "inlay hints". They look like this:

As recommended by michaelsbradley below, I installed https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver. I'm using coc.nvim (https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim) so I followed the instructions here from nim langserver https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver#vimneovim and seems to be working well!

Actually, I'm maintaining coc-perl (https://github.com/bmeneg/coc-perl), which enables the use of Perl LSP extension for vcode on vim/neovim using the CoC (https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim) backend. But it's completely on top of Perl::LanguageServer.

For vim specifically, I've been using coc.nvim, which works pretty well for my needs, and I know its quite popular. Another fairly popular one is YouCompleteMe, which I had taken a look at for some other languages; but ended up just using coc as I can't justify using YCM once a year (if that) -- too much "headache" for not a lot of use, you know?

Plug 'https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim' " Auto Completion

I do think VSCode is a great tool and I recommend it frequently to people, but I still want to set the record straight here. Yes, vim is obviously limited in the sense that as a CLI app it doesn't draw it's own PDF or HTML windows, that's fair. But it can remote control your favorite PDF viewer or browser for roughly the same functionality. I'm currently writing my thesis using vimtex and it's quite smooth. And all the other stuff you mention is implemented quite competently by various plugins like vim-fugitive, coc.nvim, vimspector and copilot.vim.

Sounds like you want vim-which-key and coc.nvim.

Another option is to just download https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim Which is basically a one stop shop for completion, and it's pretty fast, it just uses nodejs instead of built in nvim lua functions.

coc.nvim

dont over copy and paste example .vimrc, keep it simple and grow tooling as you use. for linting and code completion : https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim (easy to add languages)