NVChad has had some breaking changes since this video! It's recommended to using the v2.0 branch instead for this video. I'll be doing an updated version of this video again soon!. git clone -b v2.0 github.com/NvChad/NvChad ~/.config/nvim --depth 1
":split" and ":vsplit" are internal vim commands. You can use the internal module to do those without typing a command. "ctrl+w" invokes the window control module, and next key does the chosen action. "s" does horizontal split, "v" - vertical, "q" closes the active window and "w" cycles through open windows. There's also commands for resizing and moving windows.
@@chawza8402 I actually started with graphical IDEs. I spent a lot of time in Xcode as I did C++ on iOS for some research heavy projects. I moved to vim about 8 years ago however, and then to Neovim.
WOW! I have been retired as a developer for about 5 years (playing guitar in bars and restaurants), but am getting back in to Programming with Rust. I used InteliJ with a VIM plugin for years with Java in my last job. I missed VIM (I used to develop COBOL with Vim so, I know how powerful it is). This article opens a WHOLE new world and a very cool productivity that InteliJ and VSCode don’t seem to have. I will DEFINITELY be re-watching this video again and again as I try it out. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much, I was learning vim but I was always coming back to visual studio code because personalizing and customizing vim by myself felt like a chore. Now that I've installed NVChad thanks to this video I was able to learn how to lazy load, create lua config files,etc and now I'm just breezing and learning so much more about vim. Thank you!
Outstanding! I've been mucking about with my first NeoVim setup for several hours. Started from scratch with your video and in a MUCH shorter time, have the setup I want. Well done!
"The only editor to double as an escape room" LOL! My first experience was with Vi on Xenix in 1984, I could *not* get out of that editor, back then RTFM was the only solution and the FM was dead-tree, hole punched in a three-ring binder - SCO documentation was extensive, thankfully. What a steep learning curve. As someone who has been "trapped" in the Vi escape room, I'd like to say how much I appreciate the joke.
Lmao no way. I just say your video about Tide and was about to comment if you could share your vim setup but decided to check your channel first and low and behold the video is the latest one.
I almost never comment on videos. I've always dreaded getting into nvim. This was such a straightforward tutorial, no b.s. Thank you, ive learned so much :)
There are so many videos on new neovim configs but none seem to properly demo how to actually do git review with diffing. Would be awesome to see such a video from you. Thanks for this nice vid on NvChad!
I love you videos. You made me leave my long-time configuration of plain nvim + iTerm2 panes in favor to NvChad + tmux. The amount of love you put into animations and video structure is enourmous.
This is the easiest setup guide I found on YT. I'm excited to try out vim/neovim and see if it's worth the switch from VSCode. My 2016 MBP 13.3.1 is starting to slow down and VSCode loads very slow.
Hopefully you'll be giving it a breath of fresh life with neovim! Although the escape key and the touchbar are not so fun. I'd recommend changing the caps lock key to escape.
This is amazing! But I still don’t think I’ll switch to Neovim for development. It just seems like a lot of work to set everything up. It’s definitely getting there but I still don’t like having to set up LSP based off what projects I’m working on. I’ll stick with Webstorm for now. Btw amazing content keep up the great work!
@@suspendedchaos yeah just comes down to personal preference. Even vscode is frustrating. That’s why I like Webstorm or JetBrains products. Everything is already integrated into their products. Helix looks very promising!
I took 2 days to configure my nvim to work like a OK vscode. Mason.nvim changed it all when it comes to LSP. Everything just works now (it even promts you to install required language server when you enter a file). I think nvim is great rn, but it still lacks some extensions, DEBUGGING and integrations like vscode.
Im just always afraid of big configs like that, I’d rather build it myself even if I’m repeating what’s already been done by something like nvChad on some part, but for me that’s part of the reason to use nVim, so you have a config that’s truly yours But I’m too lazy and have to much work to be able to take some time to configure everything, so I end up with a config that I understand only up to 90% for my plugin config, especially everything that’s related to lsp With a bad autocompletion for frontend, my snippets not working as I want, but a tree file, syntax highlighting, a theme I like and telescope for switching and greping, so usable but not perfect
I'm very similar when it comes to emacs. I try and rebuild a config that's more personalized. For me, NvChad is lite enough that I feel more in tune with the configuration, and it's close enough to underlying packages that I know what's going on, especially when compared to doom emacs or spacemacs
I seem to never get a fully working tmux + vim or nvim setup that works on all my systems. some mac some linux, mostly rpi’s. I just found out about nixOS or whatver it’s called. Mayber going to try that rather than using some one elses dotfiles or dotfile managers which alwys seemn like hacky glue.
Very interesting. I’ve been using lunarvim personally, but this looks like it would be a little more “neovim default” like. I will have to give this a look. :)
Just switched to LunarVim myself from standard vim and it's been nice. However, there were a few pieces of this video that made me want to switch to NvChad.
I am also comparing Neovim Chad and lunarvim. I like how lunar vim holds everything seperate from Neovim, but the out of the box status bar in Chad looks better. Decisions, decisions.
Tremendous video. I've rebuilt my work laptop with arch, hyprland and now going through the neovim config based on this video. Thankyou for the inspriation
Thank your for really quick and easy setup video 👍 I've been trying to switch from VsCode a few times. Last attemp was Emacs Doom but that didn't really work out😅 So I hope maybe this will be the breakthrough Also your videos look really clean from graphical perspective. I was wondering If you are planning to do similar video on your terminal setup ( I use Hyper with omz rn but yours looks a lot cleaner). Would be interested in that as I use Arch too Btw.
I've struggled with emacs as well! I find the combination of Tmux and Neovim to be more productive for me. Maybe one day I'll get around to learning elisp properly! Sure thing! I'll have to do a video on my full setup!
Commands referenced up until @6:41 Open theme [space] t h Show list of avaliable LSP (syntax highlighting) :TSInstallInfo Install avaliable syntax :TSInstall Open navigation tree ctrl + n In navigation a = new file r = rename hovered file c = copy file p = paste file d = delete file Search for files [space] f f Search in buffer (opened files) [space] f b Open cheat sheet [space] c h Show possible commands [space] (wait for popup to show avaliable commands) Virtical split window :vsp Horizontal split window :sp move left: ctrl + h move right: ctrl + l move down: ctrl + j move up: ctrl + k Toggle Line Numbers [space] n Toggle Relative Line Numbers [space] r n Toggling through tabs Tab -> Shift + Tab
great video! An updated version would be very much appreciated. I managed to figure out some of the things that are not up to date but for some I just couldn't manage to figure them out yet
I feel like Lunarvim does a lot of the extra configuration lifting for you for things like LSP's while still having the same features you've mentioned here. Has some prerequisite installs but is very good. I highly recommend it.
@@dreamsofcode I am always faffing around with nano when I need a clipboard. I probably could work out what to do, but I have this horror of breaking my nvim ....
Hello, first off awesome videos! Subscribed for sure! I just started my programming journey at my University. We use vscode for the 'beginner friendly' use of it. But after watching so many videos on neovim, tmux., and all the various plugins I have felt like I fell into a rabbit hole lol. One problem I had when following your setup on rust. I get a error on line 4: local lspconfig = require "lspconfig". Error states "The same file is required with different names". I saved it but still shows error, don't know whats wrong as I followed your code to the t.
The interesting thing here is that unlike the vast majority of similar power up’s like Spacevim, LunarVim, CosmicVim, and so on, this one only requires Git - no additional external dependencies needed, let’s go! 🚀
@@sunnybadgr5073 hey! No idea, honestly. I used SpaceVim for a while: it’s lightweight and comes with a lot of goodies, I really like it. I understand that LunarVim is the most feature-complete one of the group, but also the heaviest and the one that has more external dependencies (understandable, of course)
I guess I'll take some time to learn Vim, never really found Vim being worth to properly learn, but this looks really good... So fuck it, I'll give it a proper try :)
Vim adventures is a fun game to learn the commands of vim. You get some basic commands for free as well. It's still one of my favorite editors, I do have some friends that keep pushing me to try VSCode though
try installing vim plugin in your ide(vscode, intellij etc). Once you are comfortable with basic motions and verbs, then you can decide if its worth moving to raw vim or nvim. I mostly work with java and I just use intellij with vim plugin and I am way faster and personally never could get raw vim/nvim to work for java.
@@eineatombombe for recording and editing, I use gnome (XWindow). But as a typically daily driver, I change between Sway and dwm depending on if I need X or can use Wayland. I do like to shake it up though and try other window managers.
@@dreamsofcode ive been using arch with dwm for about 3 months as a daily driver and i absolutely love it. such a minimal setup. Btw, love your content!
@@nishantjoshi6712 I have an old Thinkpad T440p that I use when I'm feeling romantic, and it's really nice firing up dwm on it. I'm also partial to a bit of ricing (although terrible at it). Thank you for the feedback! I love creating it!
Custom Plugins Fixed! The step of referencing custom.plugins in the custom.chadrc was not clear to me until you pointed it out. the Thank you so much for this video.
As a relatively recent neovim convert, I feel like using a heavily modified distro like this is counter-productive. Applying a massive config without understanding most of it is no better than using vscode. Instead of trying to replicate vscode experience, I think it's way better to start from scratch and add missing features one-by-one as required, changing your workflow as you go. Yes, it's going to be a slow process, but I don't think the retention rate is very high among new users who start with pre-configured distros.
too many extra steps to setup lsp and language server. It needs to be as simple as adding one line like installing a plugin. Really not surprised why people just open and use vscode.
I just learned to use helix editor after using emacs, sublime text and VS code. Now this video makes me want to check out vim.. I like helix but it's missing some features like the file explorer, integrated shell, project wide renaming and copilot.
@@dreamsofcode Until now, the fact that vim requires so many plugins and configurations just to be on par with another editor like sublime text or vs code kept me from trying it. But now I've found out there are several pre packaged distributions which contains all the necessary stuff. But which one is the best? LazyVim, LunarVim, AstroVim, NVChad?
This is really a CHAD, no wait, this is the GigaChad of terminal editors. I'm old user of vim but used only for edit server config files, now if my brain managed to remember a few of this keyboard shorcuts (that are by the way intuitive) I will use it more as a alternative to vscode.
I finally got with the program and moved to nvim and found nvchad within an hour or so. I might not kick my old habit of doing Ctrl+z to background vim for runing terminal commands but hey you don't have to use all those features just because they're there. :)
It's been a while that I wanted to give neovim a try to improve my productivity. Also I am an intelliJ user and as I am learning rust at the moment I found the rust plugin on intelliJ aweful. That + my will to try neovim + your channel convinced me. Great tutorials
I have a nvim config issue: I can't seem to settle on one! I'm currently using AstroNVIM. I am now going to have to try NVChad! Regardless of what config anyone uses, this video is great for a quick overview of lua based configurations. I knew some of what was shown here, but I definitely learned something new. I'm on a Mac so all of the configs are pretty much the same as Linux based distros. Anyway, thanks for the video and I subscribed and liked the video so I can get more like it from you! I appreciate you taking your time to help others!
@@sunnybadgr5073 They're all good. I'd suggest to try them all - look up the nvims video to see how to use more than one config. Whichever one is easiest for what you do is what I'd go with. I'm going back and forth between NvChad and Astro.
This video was mindblowing, I absolutely like NVChad now, however what about some features that other IDE provides like Debugger tools, Git Integrations, and a few other useful extensions like Live Server, Auto-rename Tag, Indent rainbows, toggle semicolon, and a few AI extensions? Please make a video on those features as well, let's just say someone wants to switch from VS Code to NVChad what are the potential things that they won't get by default, and how to actually install those as well. Cause in vs code it's simple as It could be all someone gotta do is just open up the extension tab and install the one that they need, but what about Neovim Distros like NVChad, LunarVim, AstroVim. It'll be helpful if there is a video that covers these things.
Thanks a lot for this nice introduction/tutorial to neovim/nvchad 👍 I was using pure vim now for a decade or so but I'm pretty sure that I'll switch to neovim entirely from now on.
Exactly the tutorial I was looking for, thank you so much for taking the time to prepare this for us geeks! By the way, I was following along using Debian Bullseye, on a Chromebook, and encountered an error when trying to launch nvim. The error I encountered was, "nvim Error detected while processing Bufreadpost Autocommands for "*": No C compiler found!". The error, being self explanatory, prompted me to execute, `sudo apt build-essential libssl-dev manpages-dev`. Upon accessing nvim again the error was gone and my world was a much nicer place.
This is actually fucking insane. I will try this for the next couple of weeks, for all my mandatory college work and for my job, which involves a ton of note keeping.
@@dreamsofcode Brother, I am only one day in, using it for documentation within a VM during pentesting. I fucking love it. I am so excited for how things go when actually programming bigger projects. This is god sent. AND I have to give you HUGE kudos for this video. Your visualization and structure of the video is on point. How did you create this epic video? What software did you use? I'd assume you're using something like Vegas Pro or some adobe tool (prime? after effects?) for cut and these insanely well done motion graphics? Also sick as hell audio. Huge thank you and be sure to have my sub, hell I even hope you get a fat carbohydrate-post-nap-coma from all the subs you are about to receive for this high quality stuff you produce!
@@longdashes Yooo thank you for the wonderful review! I've still got a lot to learn with motion graphics but am excited to keep trying new things. I use Davinci Resolve as it's the only viable software that works on Linux. I did pick up a MacBook to help me edit on the go, so I may try some other software and see what I like best. Honestly, I really like Davinci though, and I'm just starting to learn more of the advanced motion graphics. Thank you for the sub, I'm glad you like the content! Looking forward to producing more.
@@longdashes it's very underrated, although a lot of creators have been moving to it in the last year as it's coming far ahead. I should definitely do a motion graphics course though at some point!
Great video! You not only made me realize why people admire vim and Neovim so much but also now you've succesfully made me fall in love with Neovim😍🤩. Excellent Tutorial! Keep up the good work!
wow, really interesting and amazing...i am new to vim and neovim and all the configuration you need is usually confusing and complicated for a newbie, but i loved this...thank you very much for this input...greetings from argentina
After spending around 4 months with Neovim, i really don't see what's the hype around it, the only positive side is that you don't need to leave the terminal and that there is no telemetry least if you read all the plugins that you install. But those two aside, i didn't see any benefits but i saw quite few negatives such as lack of support for debuggers, much harder way of actually debugging any code in any language. Overall, if the point is masochism, might as well use nano.
I think you've called out some of the major benefits haha. Its awesome that you gave it a go at least. Once you fully grasp the keybindings, there's a lot of power there as well for editing. Being keyboard only is something I really value as well.
For arch users (and others possibly), the base neovim package in aur is the 9.0, you need the 8.0 neovim-git for it to work properly, I couldn't get 9.0 to work despite all my efforts
@@dreamsofcode No matter what I tried, LSP's just refused to work, and I tried both doing it your way, and the way they have it in the documentation, very very strange, I might upgrade to 9.0 now and check if it stays working lol
NVChad has had some breaking changes since this video! It's recommended to using the v2.0 branch instead for this video. I'll be doing an updated version of this video again soon!.
git clone -b v2.0 github.com/NvChad/NvChad ~/.config/nvim --depth 1
What a pile of unuseful crap if even this basic config is constantly changing, it simply doesn't worth....
Thank you! I couldn't figure out why it wasn't prompting to install the config files. Thank you so much for the update!
Thanks,Can you elaborate on the breaking changes
Your voice similar like david bombal 👍🏼
paitently waiting for the video to drop...
Arch and Vim, the perfect combo for endless configuration and terrible productivity.
this
LOL
Fedora is life
Also eternal virginity
@@cumibakar10 also eternal adoration to femboys
":split" and ":vsplit" are internal vim commands. You can use the internal module to do those without typing a command. "ctrl+w" invokes the window control module, and next key does the chosen action. "s" does horizontal split, "v" - vertical, "q" closes the active window and "w" cycles through open windows. There's also commands for resizing and moving windows.
This is a great tip! Thanks for sharing. I'm too accustomed to the vim commands.
@@dreamsofcode So you jumped right to nvim then? I just strarted using vscode + vim and I think there are alot things to learn
@@chawza8402 I actually started with graphical IDEs. I spent a lot of time in Xcode as I did C++ on iOS for some research heavy projects. I moved to vim about 8 years ago however, and then to Neovim.
This actually just blew my mind. Absolutely great tip!
Thanks for this man!
WOW! I have been retired as a developer for about 5 years (playing guitar in bars and restaurants), but am getting back in to Programming with Rust. I used InteliJ with a VIM plugin for years with Java in my last job. I missed VIM (I used to develop COBOL with Vim so, I know how powerful it is). This article opens a WHOLE new world and a very cool productivity that InteliJ and VSCode don’t seem to have. I will DEFINITELY be re-watching this video again and again as I try it out. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much, I was learning vim but I was always coming back to visual studio code because personalizing and customizing vim by myself felt like a chore. Now that I've installed NVChad thanks to this video I was able to learn how to lazy load, create lua config files,etc and now I'm just breezing and learning so much more about vim. Thank you!
I'm really glad to hear that! Thank you for sharing. 💜
Outstanding! I've been mucking about with my first NeoVim setup for several hours. Started from scratch with your video and in a MUCH shorter time, have the setup I want. Well done!
I'm very glad to hear that! I hope you enjoy Neovim as much as I do!
"The only editor to double as an escape room" LOL! My first experience was with Vi on Xenix in 1984, I could *not* get out of that editor, back then RTFM was the only solution and the FM was dead-tree, hole punched in a three-ring binder - SCO documentation was extensive, thankfully. What a steep learning curve. As someone who has been "trapped" in the Vi escape room, I'd like to say how much I appreciate the joke.
I'm glad someone did haha!
Lmao no way. I just say your video about Tide and was about to comment if you could share your vim setup but decided to check your channel first and low and behold the video is the latest one.
I was actually about to do the same thing :D
I almost never comment on videos. I've always dreaded getting into nvim. This was such a straightforward tutorial, no b.s. Thank you, ive learned so much :)
There are so many videos on new neovim configs but none seem to properly demo how to actually do git review with diffing. Would be awesome to see such a video from you.
Thanks for this nice vid on NvChad!
I'm super excited to spend an entire day getting acquainted with Chad tomorrow
author of NvChad here! :D
❤️ thank you for a wonderful nvim configuration!
Got this working for my Linux, MacOS and Windows systems. Truly the most chad of all the text editors
I am glad you think so!
I love you videos. You made me leave my long-time configuration of plain nvim + iTerm2 panes in favor to NvChad + tmux. The amount of love you put into animations and video structure is
enourmous.
I'm a vim minimalist who switched to neovim for copilot testing. Now that I have I'm sorely tested by this.
You can use copilot with neovim?
@@SB-qm5wg Sorry for the late reply, yes! And I have been now for months.
This is the easiest setup guide I found on YT. I'm excited to try out vim/neovim and see if it's worth the switch from VSCode. My 2016 MBP 13.3.1 is starting to slow down and VSCode loads very slow.
Hopefully you'll be giving it a breath of fresh life with neovim! Although the escape key and the touchbar are not so fun. I'd recommend changing the caps lock key to escape.
Excellent tutorial! Thank you, I learned so much and will be revisiting this video many times to make sure it sticks in memory.
I'm very glad to hear it was useful!
“I use Arch btw” within a minute 😂 Love it
This is amazing! But I still don’t think I’ll switch to Neovim for development. It just seems like a lot of work to set everything up. It’s definitely getting there but I still don’t like having to set up LSP based off what projects I’m working on. I’ll stick with Webstorm for now. Btw amazing content keep up the great work!
Thank you for the feedback! I appreciate it a lot!
If you think this is a lot of work, it’s not for you. Nothing wrong with that!
@@suspendedchaos yeah just comes down to personal preference. Even vscode is frustrating. That’s why I like Webstorm or JetBrains products. Everything is already integrated into their products. Helix looks very promising!
I invested 6 months learning neovim on my own and had my configuration perfected. It's hard but its worth it if you're really fascinated.
I took 2 days to configure my nvim to work like a OK vscode. Mason.nvim changed it all when it comes to LSP. Everything just works now (it even promts you to install required language server when you enter a file). I think nvim is great rn, but it still lacks some extensions, DEBUGGING and integrations like vscode.
After watching this I am considering seriously to VS Code with vim plugin for this setup. It really feels smooth.
Insanely well made video. Good job!
Thank you! It was fun to make this one as well
@@dreamsofcode have you tried Helix? Would be fun to watch a video on it as well. Keep it up with the great content G 💪💯
Thank you for breaking this down so that a beginner can comprehend!
Im just always afraid of big configs like that, I’d rather build it myself even if I’m repeating what’s already been done by something like nvChad on some part, but for me that’s part of the reason to use nVim, so you have a config that’s truly yours
But I’m too lazy and have to much work to be able to take some time to configure everything, so I end up with a config that I understand only up to 90% for my plugin config, especially everything that’s related to lsp
With a bad autocompletion for frontend, my snippets not working as I want, but a tree file, syntax highlighting, a theme I like and telescope for switching and greping, so usable but not perfect
I'm very similar when it comes to emacs. I try and rebuild a config that's more personalized.
For me, NvChad is lite enough that I feel more in tune with the configuration, and it's close enough to underlying packages that I know what's going on, especially when compared to doom emacs or spacemacs
I seem to never get a fully working tmux + vim or nvim setup that works on all my systems. some mac some linux, mostly rpi’s.
I just found out about nixOS or whatver it’s called. Mayber going to try that rather than using some one elses dotfiles or dotfile managers which alwys seemn like hacky glue.
dude thank you. yesterday i was trying for hours to get nvim set up and i just gave up. then a day later this vid pops up.
I hope it helps!
Amazing work
Thanks a lot 😊
I dreamed I'd see this video by Dreams of Code one day... Dreams do come true! Absolutely awesome video. Thank you so much!
You're welcome! I hope you enjoyed the video.
Very interesting. I’ve been using lunarvim personally, but this looks like it would be a little more “neovim default” like. I will have to give this a look. :)
Just switched to LunarVim myself from standard vim and it's been nice. However, there were a few pieces of this video that made me want to switch to NvChad.
I am also comparing Neovim Chad and lunarvim. I like how lunar vim holds everything seperate from Neovim, but the out of the box status bar in Chad looks better. Decisions, decisions.
Tremendous video. I've rebuilt my work laptop with arch, hyprland and now going through the neovim config based on this video. Thankyou for the inspriation
Thank your for really quick and easy setup video 👍
I've been trying to switch from VsCode a few times. Last attemp was Emacs Doom but that didn't really work out😅 So I hope maybe this will be the breakthrough
Also your videos look really clean from graphical perspective.
I was wondering If you are planning to do similar video on your terminal setup ( I use Hyper with omz rn but yours looks a lot cleaner). Would be interested in that as I use Arch too Btw.
I've struggled with emacs as well! I find the combination of Tmux and Neovim to be more productive for me.
Maybe one day I'll get around to learning elisp properly!
Sure thing! I'll have to do a video on my full setup!
Arch + Neovim = I see you're a man of culture as well
Commands referenced up until @6:41
Open theme
[space] t h
Show list of avaliable LSP (syntax highlighting)
:TSInstallInfo
Install avaliable syntax
:TSInstall
Open navigation tree
ctrl + n
In navigation
a = new file
r = rename hovered file
c = copy file
p = paste file
d = delete file
Search for files
[space] f f
Search in buffer (opened files)
[space] f b
Open cheat sheet
[space] c h
Show possible commands
[space] (wait for popup to show avaliable commands)
Virtical split window
:vsp
Horizontal split window
:sp
move left: ctrl + h
move right: ctrl + l
move down: ctrl + j
move up: ctrl + k
Toggle Line Numbers
[space] n
Toggle Relative Line Numbers
[space] r n
Toggling through tabs
Tab ->
Shift + Tab
great video! An updated version would be very much appreciated. I managed to figure out some of the things that are not up to date but for some I just couldn't manage to figure them out yet
I feel like Lunarvim does a lot of the extra configuration lifting for you for things like LSP's while still having the same features you've mentioned here. Has some prerequisite installs but is very good. I highly recommend it.
funny enough lunarvim didnt work for me but after this everything is working fine :D
DoC's Videos on NvChad, Nvim, and Tmux, are fantastic. I now have a full working terminal suite - a terminal IDE. God bless you
Thank you! I'm really glad you enjoyed it and found it useful!
@@dreamsofcode Your video on tmux is another boon. Your content is, literally, the best
@@dreamsofcode I am always faffing around with nano when I need a clipboard. I probably could work out what to do, but I have this horror of breaking my nvim ....
Hello, first off awesome videos! Subscribed for sure! I just started my programming journey at my University. We use vscode for the 'beginner friendly' use of it. But after watching so many videos on neovim, tmux., and all the various plugins I have felt like I fell into a rabbit hole lol. One problem I had when following your setup on rust. I get a error on line 4: local lspconfig = require "lspconfig". Error states "The same file is required with different names". I saved it but still shows error, don't know whats wrong as I followed your code to the t.
Did you find a fix for this?
This video made the setup seem very easy. Currently setting up NeoVIM using a different tutorial but now I'm interested in NVChad.
I recommend Neovide as a GUI on top of nvim, looks even more crisp than any IDE I have seen
The video: "With one command, it'll all be set up!"
Me: *spends half an hour trying to set my font*
🤣 I need to do a font setup video!
The interesting thing here is that unlike the vast majority of similar power up’s like Spacevim, LunarVim, CosmicVim, and so on, this one only requires Git - no additional external dependencies needed, let’s go! 🚀
LazyVim, LunarVim, AstroVim, and NVChad, which one is the best?
@@sunnybadgr5073 hey! No idea, honestly. I used SpaceVim for a while: it’s lightweight and comes with a lot of goodies, I really like it. I understand that LunarVim is the most feature-complete one of the group, but also the heaviest and the one that has more external dependencies (understandable, of course)
This is why i picked nvchad
I'm the kind of person who will still spend a long time customizing, but this is a fantastic starting point to jump off of.
I'm with you! I do enjoy a good customization
I guess I'll take some time to learn Vim, never really found Vim being worth to properly learn, but this looks really good... So fuck it, I'll give it a proper try :)
Vim adventures is a fun game to learn the commands of vim. You get some basic commands for free as well.
It's still one of my favorite editors, I do have some friends that keep pushing me to try VSCode though
try installing vim plugin in your ide(vscode, intellij etc). Once you are comfortable with basic motions and verbs, then you can decide if its worth moving to raw vim or nvim. I mostly work with java and I just use intellij with vim plugin and I am way faster and personally never could get raw vim/nvim to work for java.
I have been trying to get into neovim for sometime. This is the first video that really made it simple for me. Thank you.
I'm really glad to hear that! I hope you enjoy Neovim as well.
Great! If you don't mind next time paste the links to all downloads used in your video under the description
Absolutely. That's a good idea. I'll add that in to the description as well
Honestly, this video inspired me to give neovim a try and I love it!
It's my new main IDE and works great for web development.
I'm v glad to hear that!
Are you using vanilla arch ?? Keep up the content. Just subbed your channel
I am using vanilla arch! Thank you, I appreciate the sub and feedback!
@@dreamsofcode what de/window manager you using?
@@eineatombombe for recording and editing, I use gnome (XWindow). But as a typically daily driver, I change between Sway and dwm depending on if I need X or can use Wayland.
I do like to shake it up though and try other window managers.
@@dreamsofcode ive been using arch with dwm for about 3 months as a daily driver and i absolutely love it. such a minimal setup. Btw, love your content!
@@nishantjoshi6712 I have an old Thinkpad T440p that I use when I'm feeling romantic, and it's really nice firing up dwm on it. I'm also partial to a bit of ricing (although terrible at it).
Thank you for the feedback! I love creating it!
Custom Plugins Fixed! The step of referencing custom.plugins in the custom.chadrc was not clear to me until you pointed it out. the Thank you so much for this video.
Best software dev YT channel I’ve discovered recently! Fantastic video!
Thank you! Your videos are exceptional as well.
How to make vim better in one command, first thing he does is install a new IDE. Top job
As a relatively recent neovim convert, I feel like using a heavily modified distro like this is counter-productive. Applying a massive config without understanding most of it is no better than using vscode. Instead of trying to replicate vscode experience, I think it's way better to start from scratch and add missing features one-by-one as required, changing your workflow as you go. Yes, it's going to be a slow process, but I don't think the retention rate is very high among new users who start with pre-configured distros.
too many extra steps to setup lsp and language server. It needs to be as simple as adding one line like installing a plugin. Really not surprised why people just open and use vscode.
Looking forward to the updated version of this video. Thanks!
I have watched countless videos on vim but this is the first one that makes me want to try it out. Great video.
Thank you! I appreciate the feedback.
I just learned to use helix editor after using emacs, sublime text and VS code. Now this video makes me want to check out vim..
I like helix but it's missing some features like the file explorer, integrated shell, project wide renaming and copilot.
@@dreamsofcode Until now, the fact that vim requires so many plugins and configurations just to be on par with another editor like sublime text or vs code kept me from trying it.
But now I've found out there are several pre packaged distributions which contains all the necessary stuff. But which one is the best?
LazyVim, LunarVim, AstroVim, NVChad?
Great video! Could you please share your alacritty config. Your theme looks awsome. Keep up the good work!
Yes! Absolutely, I'll probably do another video on Alacritty and Tmux as well.
This is really a CHAD, no wait, this is the GigaChad of terminal editors. I'm old user of vim but used only for edit server config files, now if my brain managed to remember a few of this keyboard shorcuts (that are by the way intuitive) I will use it more as a alternative to vscode.
If you're having issues with NVChad, make sure you're running the latest Neovim!
I tried this, but I get tons of errors when using neovim 0.9.0 stable. I have to go to the last stable release, 0.8.3, to not end up with errors
@dreamsofcode your terminal theme is really beautiful!! Can u do a video about your config?
@@natancosta2017 thank you! I shall do. But it's just Alacritty and Tmux with Catppuccin theme. I've got a video on Tmux for how to set that up!
@@natancosta2017 how did you install it?
@@dreamsofcode I solve that problem with icons installing a special Nerd fonts with only icons, is running! But, now I can't do LSP to C# works :(
I finally got with the program and moved to nvim and found nvchad within an hour or so. I might not kick my old habit of doing Ctrl+z to background vim for runing terminal commands but hey you don't have to use all those features just because they're there. :)
I started using neovim after watching this video! Thanks it's a great editor :)
Great to hear!
It's been a while that I wanted to give neovim a try to improve my productivity. Also I am an intelliJ user and as I am learning rust at the moment I found the rust plugin on intelliJ aweful. That + my will to try neovim + your channel convinced me. Great tutorials
I'm very glad to hear that!
I found it. I asked about it in another video. Now i am setting this up.
I died for a few seconds during "ayu light"
Thank you for sharing this. It looks like the business, can't wait to dive in now
Thanks for the latest heads up about the Chad VM being broken! I was stuck in a loop (on MacOS)... Unstuck! 😀
When I heard Arch Linux automatically my mind, this guy deserves Like and subscribe
Thank you haha
I really like your explanation and inspire me to use vim again. Thank you 👍
You're welcome!
Your videos are by far the best I have seen... thank you!
Thank you! I appreciate that feedback!
I have a nvim config issue: I can't seem to settle on one! I'm currently using AstroNVIM. I am now going to have to try NVChad! Regardless of what config anyone uses, this video is great for a quick overview of lua based configurations. I knew some of what was shown here, but I definitely learned something new. I'm on a Mac so all of the configs are pretty much the same as Linux based distros.
Anyway, thanks for the video and I subscribed and liked the video so I can get more like it from you! I appreciate you taking your time to help others!
I appreciate the feedback and the sub!
LazyVim, LunarVim, AstroVim, or NVChad, which one is the best?
@@sunnybadgr5073 They're all good. I'd suggest to try them all - look up the nvims video to see how to use more than one config. Whichever one is easiest for what you do is what I'd go with. I'm going back and forth between NvChad and Astro.
This video was mindblowing, I absolutely like NVChad now, however what about some features that other IDE provides like Debugger tools, Git Integrations, and a few other useful extensions like Live Server, Auto-rename Tag, Indent rainbows, toggle semicolon, and a few AI extensions? Please make a video on those features as well, let's just say someone wants to switch from VS Code to NVChad what are the potential things that they won't get by default, and how to actually install those as well. Cause in vs code it's simple as It could be all someone gotta do is just open up the extension tab and install the one that they need, but what about Neovim Distros like NVChad, LunarVim, AstroVim. It'll be helpful if there is a video that covers these things.
You can get all of these by googling.
This is a great idea. I can set up some content for this as well.
@@dreamsofcode Thank you so much, it'll be really helpful for beginners like me.
Thanks a lot for this nice introduction/tutorial to neovim/nvchad 👍 I was using pure vim now for a decade or so but I'm pretty sure that I'll switch to neovim entirely from now on.
I had been using vim for a while as well before fully moving over to Neovim. It's really improved in the last few years!
Exactly the tutorial I was looking for, thank you so much for taking the time to prepare this for us geeks! By the way, I was following along using Debian Bullseye, on a Chromebook, and encountered an error when trying to launch nvim.
The error I encountered was, "nvim Error detected while processing Bufreadpost Autocommands for "*": No C compiler found!". The error, being self explanatory, prompted me to execute, `sudo apt build-essential libssl-dev manpages-dev`. Upon accessing nvim again the error was gone and my world was a much nicer place.
Probably one of the few useful error messages out there! I’m glad you were able to solve the issue.
Nice video! I was looking way to improve my vim config and this helped a lot.
Glad to hear!
ngl, it took me a while to understand the config but it was so elegant in the end😘.
He said it, he really said it "I use Arch btw"
This is actually fucking insane. I will try this for the next couple of weeks, for all my mandatory college work and for my job, which involves a ton of note keeping.
Let me know how it goes!
@@dreamsofcode Brother, I am only one day in, using it for documentation within a VM during pentesting. I fucking love it. I am so excited for how things go when actually programming bigger projects. This is god sent.
AND I have to give you HUGE kudos for this video. Your visualization and structure of the video is on point. How did you create this epic video? What software did you use? I'd assume you're using something like Vegas Pro or some adobe tool (prime? after effects?) for cut and these insanely well done motion graphics? Also sick as hell audio. Huge thank you and be sure to have my sub, hell I even hope you get a fat carbohydrate-post-nap-coma from all the subs you are about to receive for this high quality stuff you produce!
@@longdashes Yooo thank you for the wonderful review!
I've still got a lot to learn with motion graphics but am excited to keep trying new things. I use Davinci Resolve as it's the only viable software that works on Linux. I did pick up a MacBook to help me edit on the go, so I may try some other software and see what I like best. Honestly, I really like Davinci though, and I'm just starting to learn more of the advanced motion graphics.
Thank you for the sub, I'm glad you like the content! Looking forward to producing more.
@@dreamsofcode I am extremely surprised that you're able to produce such high quality content with DR. I did not see that coming.
Kudos!
@@longdashes it's very underrated, although a lot of creators have been moving to it in the last year as it's coming far ahead. I should definitely do a motion graphics course though at some point!
Note to Ubuntu 22.04 gang: our apt repository's neovim doesn't actually support NvChad now.. We must install something more modern.
u got urself a new sub, for the explanation, music and ur deep voice :)
Aww thanks! Glad you liked all three!
Great video! You not only made me realize why people admire vim and Neovim so much but also now you've succesfully made me fall in love with Neovim😍🤩. Excellent Tutorial! Keep up the good work!
Glad I could help! Thank you for the feedback as well 😁
I was not ready for that opening line😂. Comedy gold
I'm glad someone found it funny haha 😂
my own nvim ide also uses space for , great minds think alike
My life will never be the same.
"I use arch btw"
Thank god he said that, who knows how much sleep I would have lost if I didn't know this man uses arch!
Hahah. The world needs to know!
Awesome work, don't forget to revert the copy and cut actions to what any sane person would like them to be :).
I am so curious what terminal did u use in this video
This video is the reason I am still sane. Thank you!!
You're very welcome!
So far I've been loving nvchad!
That's great!
wow, really interesting and amazing...i am new to vim and neovim and all the configuration you need is usually confusing and complicated for a newbie, but i loved this...thank you very much for this input...greetings from argentina
Glad it was helpful! Greetings to Argentina! 👋
Great content, reminds me of Fireship but .. better !
Thank you! You're too kind. Fireship is still the GOAT.
Hello, I've been able to configure everything except rust-analyzer. Do you have an open repo of your config files? Awesome tutorial btw!
Best NvChad Tutorial ever.
Thank you! I appreciate that.
You're right. The first thing I wanted to do was change the ming.
what arch distro do you use ?
what an awesome video and creator, thanks for this, really helped a bunch!
Thank you for the feedback!
Man i would love to see your arch linux setup as a tutorial. It's so cool😃😃
I shall have to do so!
can you do a terminal setup video
After spending around 4 months with Neovim, i really don't see what's the hype around it, the only positive side is that you don't need to leave the terminal and that there is no telemetry least if you read all the plugins that you install.
But those two aside, i didn't see any benefits but i saw quite few negatives such as lack of support for debuggers, much harder way of actually debugging any code in any language. Overall, if the point is masochism, might as well use nano.
I think you've called out some of the major benefits haha. Its awesome that you gave it a go at least.
Once you fully grasp the keybindings, there's a lot of power there as well for editing. Being keyboard only is something I really value as well.
Ok, you got me at "I use arch btw"
Nice video man, btw which theme you use in your arch setup?
I use Catppuccin with gnome on Arch!
Best intro to nvim ive seen, thank you goid sir
You're very welcome!
Your channel is THE BEST
Thank you!
For arch users (and others possibly), the base neovim package in aur is the 9.0, you need the 8.0 neovim-git for it to work properly, I couldn't get 9.0 to work despite all my efforts
Interesting. I'm using 9.0 currently without any problems. What is the issue you're getting?
@@dreamsofcode No matter what I tried, LSP's just refused to work, and I tried both doing it your way, and the way they have it in the documentation, very very strange, I might upgrade to 9.0 now and check if it stays working lol
Thank you for this tutorial. Very detailed. Cheers
You're welcome!