neovim

Neovim is my terminal text editor. it’s a fork of Vim with better plugin support, built-in LSP and Lua configuration.

Taking CS2030 in my second semester of uni irreversibly changed my life and made me infinitely more annoying because it: 1. introduced me to java and 2. introduced me to Vim. I love vim motions and try to use them wherever I can (the ability to do this within Obsidian and not Notion was very appealing). Honestly top-2 favorite mods I’ve taken at NUS. Neovim gives me a really comfortable environment to code in within my terminal, and I’m a really big fan of the plugins. This was my first order of business when I was setting up my dev environment on my work laptop and it’s been awesome so far.

Config Structure

~/.config/nvim/
├── init.lua             # Entry point, sets leader key
├── lua/kienanana/
│   ├── lazy_init.lua          # Lazy.nvim setup
│   ├── remap.lua              # Keybindings
│   ├── set.lua                # Editor options
│   └── lazy/                  # Plugin configs
│       ├── kanagawa.lua       # Colorscheme (active)
│       ├── tokyonight.lua     # Colorscheme (available)
│       ├── neotree.lua        # File explorer
│       ├── telescope.lua      # Fuzzy finder
│       ├── lsp.lua            # LSP config
│       ├── cmp.lua            # Completion
│       ├── mason.lua          # LSP installer
│       ├── lualine.lua        # Statusline
│       ├── snacks.lua         # Utilities
│       ├── tmux-navigator.lua # tmux integration
│       └── treesitter.lua     # Disabled

Plugins

Core

• lazy.nvim - Plugin manager
• kanagawa - Colorscheme (transparent, custom green cursor line)
• lualine - Statusline (tokyonight theme)

Navigation & Files

• neo-tree - File explorer (width: 32, follows current file)
• telescope - Fuzzy finder (files, grep, buffers, help)
• vim-tmux-navigator - Seamless vim/tmux navigation

LSP & Completion

• nvim-lspconfig - LSP client (lua_ls, pyright, tsserver)
• nvim-cmp - Completion engine
• mason + mason-lspconfig - LSP server installer

Utilities

• snacks.nvim - Dashboard, scratch buffers, lazygit, file picker, explorer
• LuaSnip - Snippet engine

Disabled

• treesitter - Currently disabled

Essential Keybindings

Leader key: space

File Management

• <leader>e - Toggle Neotree
• <C-p> - Snacks file picker
• <C-n> - Snacks explorer
• <leader><leader> - Recent files

Telescope

• <leader>ff - Find files
• <leader>fg - Live grep
• <leader>fb - Buffers
• <leader>fh - Help tags

tmux Navigation

• <C-h> - Left
• <C-j> - Down
• <C-k> - Up
• <C-l> - Right

LSP

• K - Hover docs
• <leader>gd - Go to definition
• <leader>gr - References
• <leader>ca - Code actions
• <leader>rn - Rename
• <leader>gf - Format

Completion

• <C-Space> - Trigger
• <CR> - Confirm
• <Tab> - Next
• <S-Tab> - Previous

Git (Snacks)

• <leader>lg - Lazygit
• <leader>gl - Lazygit log

Scratch

• <leader>sf - Toggle scratch
• <leader>S - Select scratch