Re-learning Vim (6)

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AstroNvim v2.11.8 on the current main branch

In order to update AstroNvim to the current main branch (which is also nightly branch), Neovim needed to be updated v0.8+. Since the official Debian package was stuck at v0.7, I installed the upstream provided deb package. See Debian BTS #1021339.

The following configuration was built on top of the configuration mentioned in Re-learning Vim (5).

Local customization

I customized my Neovim with ~/.config/astronvim and installed a few extra packages as astronvim-osamu.

Key local features:

• Unicode code point display in status line.
• Reopen file with its cursor at the last place.
• Vimhelp documentation available for delayed loading packages.
• Cheatsheet for Vim.

vimdoc-install script to make all available Vimhelp documentation easily accessible via :h by creating symlinks in ~/.config/astronvim/doc/ directories to them.

Treesitter language support

Treesitter supports for pertinent languages were installed as:

:TSInstall {language}

See :h nvim-treesitter

LSP/DAP/Linter/Formatter language support

LSP/DAP/Linter/Formatter supports for pertinent languages were interactively installed by <leader>pI or :Mason.

Basically, this helps us to install requested <packagename> package into ~/.local/share/nvim/mason/packages/<packagename>/ and make its executable <progname> program accessible from Neovim in ~/.local/share/nvim/mason/bin/<progname>. So executable programs from Neovim plugins are not the one on the main system.

In order this to work, some system programs are needed to be installed in advance. As I see my situation with :checkhealth mason.nvim (after mason.nvim has been delay loaded by opening a file).:

mason: require("mason.health").check()
========================================================================
## mason.nvim report
  - OK: neovim version >= 0.7.0
  - OK: **Go**: `go version go1.19.5 linux/amd64`
  - OK: **cargo**: `cargo 1.65.0`
  - OK: **luarocks**: `/usr/bin/luarocks 3.8.0`
  - OK: **Ruby**: `ruby 3.1.2p20 (2022-04-12 revision 4491bb740a) [x86_64-linux-gnu]`
  - OK: **RubyGem**: `3.3.15`
  - WARNING: **Composer**: not available
  - WARNING: **PHP**: not available
  - OK: **npm**: `9.2.0`
  - OK: **node**: `v18.13.0`
  - OK: **python3**: `Python 3.11.1`
  - OK: **pip3**: `pip 22.3.1 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip (python 3.11)`
  - WARNING: **javac**: not available
  - OK: **java**: `openjdk version "17.0.6" 2023-01-17`
  - WARNING: **julia**: not available
  - OK: **wget**: `GNU Wget 1.21.3 built on linux-gnu.`
  - OK: **curl**: `curl 7.87.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.87.0 OpenSSL/ ...
  - OK: **gzip**: `gzip 1.12`
  - OK: **tar**: `tar (GNU tar) 1.34`
  - WARNING: **pwsh**: not available
  - OK: **bash**: `GNU bash, version 5.2.15(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)`
  - OK: **sh**: `Ok`
  - OK: GitHub API rate limit. Used: 0. Remaining: 60. Limit: 60. Reset: Sat 0 ...

I ended up to install following Debian packages as required system programs.

• luarocks
• npm
• nodejs
• cargo
• python3-pip
• python3-venv
• curl
• wget

See more :h mason.nvim

In order to make LSP/DAP/Linter/Formatter programs accessible from shell prompt, I have modifies ~/.profile to include the following:

# set PATH so it includes mason.nvim's private bin if it exists (Neovim/mason.nvim)
if [ -d "$HOME/.local/share/nvim/mason/bin/" ]; then
    PATH="$HOME/.local/share/nvim/mason/bin:$PATH"
fi

I got annoyed with automatic reformat upon file save. The upstream gave me a lesson pointing me to a solution.

I also added ~/.editorconfig to cope with sources using editorconfig.

AstroNvim on v3 branch with lazy.nvim

It looks like AstoNvim is migrating to the new package manager lazy.nvim as I see its v3 branch development.

Once we migrate, files under ~/.local/share/nvim/site/pack/packer seem to be safely removed after migration.