packer.nvim VS nvim-lspconfig

packer

-- Check if Packer.nvim is already installed if fn.empty(fn.glob(install_path)) > 0 then -- If not installed, clone it from GitHub fn.system({'git', 'clone', '--depth', '1', 'https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim', install_path}) -- Load Packer.nvim vim.cmd [[packadd packer.nvim]] return true end return false end

local ensure_packer = function() local fn = vim.fn local install_path = fn.stdpath('data')..'/site/pack/packer/start/packer.nvim' if fn.empty(fn.glob(install_path)) > 0 then fn.system({'git', 'clone', '--depth', '1', 'https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim', install_path}) vim.cmd [[packadd packer.nvim]] return true end return false end

local fn = vim.fn -- Automatically install packer local install_path = fn.stdpath("data") .. "/site/pack/packer/start/packer.nvim" if fn.empty(fn.glob(install_path)) > 0 then PACKER_BOOTSTRAP = fn.system({ "git", "clone", "--depth", "1", "https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim", install_path, }) print("Installing packer close and reopen Neovim...") vim.cmd([[packadd packer.nvim]]) end -- Autocommand that reloads neovim whenever you save the plugins.lua file vim.cmd([[ augroup packer_user_config autocmd! autocmd BufWritePost plugins.lua source | PackerSync augroup end ]]) -- Use a protected call so we don't error out on first use local status_ok, packer = pcall(require, "packer") if not status_ok then return end -- Have packer use a popup window packer.init({ display = { open_fn = function() return require("packer.util").float({ border = "rounded" }) end, }, }) -- Install your plugins here return packer.startup(function(use) -- My plugins here use({ "wbthomason/packer.nvim" }) -- Have packer manage itself use({ "nvim-lua/plenary.nvim" }) -- Useful lua functions used by lots of plugins use({ "windwp/nvim-autopairs" }) -- Autopairs, integrates with both cmp and treesitter use({ "numToStr/Comment.nvim" }) use({ "JoosepAlviste/nvim-ts-context-commentstring" }) use({ "kyazdani42/nvim-web-devicons" }) use({ "akinsho/bufferline.nvim" }) use({ "moll/vim-bbye" }) use({ "nvim-lualine/lualine.nvim" }) use({ "akinsho/toggleterm.nvim" }) use({ "ahmedkhalf/project.nvim" }) use({ "lewis6991/impatient.nvim" }) use({ "lukas-reineke/indent-blankline.nvim" }) use({ "goolord/alpha-nvim" }) use("folke/which-key.nvim") -- Colorschemes use({ "folke/tokyonight.nvim" }) use("lunarvim/darkplus.nvim") use("bluz71/vim-moonfly-colors") use("fcpg/vim-fahrenheit") use("rainglow/vim") use("wojciechkepka/vim-github-dark") use("gavinok/spaceway.vim") use({"mcchrish/zenbones.nvim", requires = "rktjmp/lush.nvim"}) use({ "ellisonleao/gruvbox.nvim" }) -- Gruvbox theme -- LSP use({ "neovim/nvim-lspconfig" }) -- enable LSP use({ "williamboman/nvim-lsp-installer" }) -- simple to use language server installer use({ "jose-elias-alvarez/null-ls.nvim" }) -- for formatters and linters -- Telescope use({ "nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim" }) -- Treesitter use("nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter", {run = ':TSUpdate'}) use("nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter-context") use("nvim-treesitter/playground") -- Editor plugins use({ "karb94/neoscroll.nvim" }) -- Git use({ "lewis6991/gitsigns.nvim" }) -- LSP Zero use { 'VonHeikemen/lsp-zero.nvim', requires = { -- LSP Support {'neovim/nvim-lspconfig'}, -- Required {'williamboman/mason.nvim'}, -- Optional {'williamboman/mason-lspconfig.nvim'}, -- Optional -- Autocompletion {'hrsh7th/nvim-cmp'}, -- Required {'hrsh7th/cmp-buffer'}, {'hrsh7th/cmp-path'}, {'hrsh7th/cmp-nvim-lua'}, {'hrsh7th/cmp-nvim-lsp'}, -- Required {'L3MON4D3/LuaSnip'}, -- Required {'rafamadriz/friendly-snippets'}, } } -- Automatically set up your configuration after cloning packer.nvim -- Put this at the end after all plugins if PACKER_BOOTSTRAP then require("packer").sync() end end)

require('packer').startup(function(use) use 'https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim' use 'https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig' end)

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim\ ~/.local/share/nvim/site/pack/packer/start/packer.nvim

``` vim.g.maplocalleader = " " vim.g.mapleader = " " local ensure_packer = function() local fn = vim.fn local install_path = fn.stdpath("data") .. "/site/pack/packer/start/packer.nvim" if fn.empty(fn.glob(install_path)) > 0 then fn.system({ "git", "clone", "--depth", "1", "https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim", install_path }) vim.cmd([[packadd packer.nvim]]) return true end return false end

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.