Neovim ​

I made my configs from 2 tutorials:

• ThePrimeagen's setup
• Santiago's setup

(And of course copying from the examples provided by the plugins)

packer.nvim ​

Install packer.nvim, which is the plugin manager.

yay -Syu nvim-packer-git

yay -Syu nvim-packer-git

Get the configs ​

My configs are on GitHub

I made a script to curl them to the right places. If you want to use them, backup your existing configs

mv ~/.config/nvim ~/.config/nvim.bak

mv ~/.config/nvim ~/.config/nvim.bak

Then download and run the script

curl -o dl-nvim-config.py https://vmsetup.pistonite.org/dl-nvim-config.py
python dl-nvim-config.py
rm dl-nvim-config.py

curl -o dl-nvim-config.py https://vmsetup.pistonite.org/dl-nvim-config.py
python dl-nvim-config.py
rm dl-nvim-config.py

Install the plugins ​

Start neovim

nvim

nvim

You will see some errors because the plugins are not installed. It's OK. Run the following command to install them

:PackerSync

:PackerSync

Restart neovim and you should be good.

GitHub Copilot ​

If you have GitHub Copilot, run the following to set it up

:Copilot setup

:Copilot setup

Then follow on-screen instructions.

You can use :Copilot status to check at anytime if it is enabled

Yank to host clipboard ​

Since the VM is headless, there's no clipboard provider to support the + register. So I made a simple python program ws-clipboard that starts a websocket server and stores whatever it receives into the clipboard.

You can see the autocommand in lua/keys.lua that uses websocat to send it over to the host. On windows, it uses powershell's Set-Clipboard command so you don't need to do extra setup.

Update ​

To update the plugins/packages/tools, run

:PackerSync

:PackerSync

After that, also update treesitter and Mason tools

:TSUpdate
:MasonUpdate

:TSUpdate
:MasonUpdate

Key mappings ​

Here are some of my key mappings. I use the default leader key.

Normal operations ​

File switching ​

LSP ​

Terminal ​

Language-specific LSP Setups ​

Works out-of-box with Mason ​

The following should work mostly out-of-box when installing through Mason:

• rust-analyzer
• `typescript-language-server
• eslint-lsp

C/C++ (clangd) ​

1. Install it through Mason
2. Your build system must produce a compile-commands.json
3. Create .clangd in the root of the projects with the following, changing the path accordingly
   yaml

   CompileFlags:
     CompilationDatabase: ./path/to/directory/with/compile-commands.json

   CompileFlags:
     CompilationDatabase: ./path/to/directory/with/compile-commands.json

4. If additional configuration is needed, follow https://clangd.llvm.org/config.html#compileflags

Java (jdtls) ​

1. DO NOT install it through Mason. Instead, download from https://download.eclipse.org/jdtls/milestones
2. Extract JDTLS from the download from step 1. Put it in some permanent location, then set the ECLIPSE_JDTLS_HOME variable to that folder.

3. You also need a decently new version of JDK. Install the latest from https://jdk.java.net/ or from package manager. At the time of writing, the latest is JDK 21
4. Set ECLIPSE_JDK_HOME to the JDK you will be using for JDTLS

5. For every runtime you want to use, set the JDK<version>_HOME to the path of the JDK. For example JDK8_HOME for JavaSE-1.8 and JDK21_HOME for JavaSE-21. JDTLS will detect the runtime to use from .classpath, then use this env to find the Java installation.