call plug#begin(“~/.vim/plugged”) “ Plugin Section Plug 'dracula/vim' Plug 'ryanoasis/vim-devicons' Plug 'SirVer/ultisnips' Plug 'honza/vim-snippets' Plug 'scrooloose/nerdtree' Plug 'preservim/nerdcommenter' Plug 'mhinz/vim-startify' Plug 'neoclide/coc.nvim', call plug#end()Īdd the above line to init.vim and run PlugInstall in command mode to install the above plugins. Using a plugin manager is the best way to manage the plugins(I really do recommend vimplug as a plugin manager, I would be using vimplug to install the plugins). Now the real play comes while using plugins. And I don’t want to change the swap file location(which is the current directory by default). But I don’t recommend using the commented commands, since I do like the default behavior for them. Comment statements (“) given aside is self-explanatory what each line does. Neovim and vim use vimscript for the config file. config/nvim/init.vim set nocompatible ' disable compatibility to old-time vi set showmatch ' show matching set ignorecase ' case insensitive set mouse=v ' middle-click paste with set hlsearch ' highlight search set incsearch ' incremental search set tabstop=4 ' number of columns occupied by a tab set softtabstop=4 ' see multiple spaces as tabstops so does the right thing set expandtab ' converts tabs to white space set shiftwidth=4 ' width for autoindents set autoindent ' indent a new line the same amount as the line just typed set number ' add line numbers set wildmode=longest,list ' get bash-like tab completions set cc=80 ' set an 80 column border for good coding style filetype plugin indent on 'allow auto-indenting depending on file type syntax on ' syntax highlighting set mouse=a ' enable mouse click set clipboard=unnamedplus ' using system clipboard filetype plugin on set cursorline ' highlight current cursorline set ttyfast ' Speed up scrolling in Vim ' set spell ' enable spell check (may need to download language package) ' set noswapfile ' disable creating swap file ' set backupdir=~/.cache/vim ' Directory to store backup files.Īdd these files to your init.vim. Even though by default neovim is a really good one, it lacks some features like code completion.We will be fixing these things through the config file, which is located at ~/.

Mac vim config files