Neovim RC

My neovim rc journey which started with ThePrimeagen's Neovim RC From Scratch video.

Note

this config now relies on lazy.nvim instead of packer.

Important

neovim 0.10.0+ required

Installation

Clone into nvim config dir:

mkdir -p ~/.config/nvim && cd ~/.config/nvim
git clone <this-repo> .
nvim .

nvim from WSL2

There is no native clipboard support when running nvim inside a WSL2 container on a windows host. There are a few ways to set this up; run h:clipboard for more info.

This is how you would set up clipboard using xclip, which is already installed on most distros.

Install X Server on host

VcXsrv is a common choice for windows. Install then launch it listening on port XX. (You will probably want to save this launch configuration and set the server to always launch with it on system startup.)

After launching it, we need to allow access to it through the firewall. Create a firewall rule that allows traffic from the server program, accepting inbound connections from the following IP range:

• 172.16.0.0/12

This range is the subnet created by WSL for all its containers.

Set DISPLAY on container

The $DISPLAY var needs to be set to the host IP and display port that you launched the server with. Here's a handy way to do that in bash:

set_display() {
    # WSL?
    if [[ "$(< /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease)" == *microsoft* ]]; then
        # replace XX with actual port
        XPORT=XX
        WSL_HOST=$(tail -1 /etc/resolv.conf | cut -d' ' -f2)
        export DISPLAY=${WSL_HOST}:$XPORT
    fi
}

set_display

Once this is all complete, you should be able to paste from the system clipboard into nvim. If not, run :checkhealth to verify clipboard settings.