nvim-lite

A powerful but tastefully minimal Neovim configuration in a single file. No plugin manager. No bloat.

Author: Radley E. Sidwell-Lewis

Requirements

Neovim 0.12 or later
A Nerd Font (FiraCode Nerd Font recommended)
git, ripgrep, fzf, fd
go (for efm-langserver)

Installation

mkdir -p ~/.config/nvim && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/radleylewis/nvim-lite/main/init.lua -o ~/.config/nvim/init.lua

Note: If you already have a Neovim config, back it up first.

Dependencies

Neovim 0.12 and the Treesitter CLI:

sudo pacman -S neovim tree-sitter-cli

Go (required by efm-langserver for linting and formatting):

sudo pacman -S go

LuaSnip (native C dependency for snippet expansion):

sudo pacman -S lua-jsregexp

General utilities:

sudo pacman -S git ripgrep fzf fd

LSP servers are managed via Mason. On first launch, open Neovim and run :Mason to install the servers you need.

Note: rust_analyzer is managed automatically by rustaceanvim via rustup. Install it with rustup component add rust-analyzer rather than through Mason.

Features

Single init.lua — no plugin manager, uses Neovim's native vim.pack
Treesitter syntax highlighting and folding
LSP via nvim-lspconfig with blink.cmp for completion
Linting and formatting via efm-langserver
Rust support via rustaceanvim
Fuzzy finding via fzf-lua
File tree via nvim-tree
Git integration via mini.diff and mini.git
Floating terminal (<leader>t)
Obsidian note-taking support (optional, requires ~/Documents/Notes/)
Custom statusline with mode, branch, filetype and file size indicators
Transparent background

Keymaps

| Key | Action | |-----|--------| | <leader>e | Toggle file tree | | <leader>ff | Find files | | <leader>fg | Live grep | | <leader>fb | Buffers | | <leader>t | Toggle floating terminal | | <leader>gd | Go to definition | | <leader>ca | Code action | | <leader>rn | Rename symbol | | K | Hover documentation | | ]h / [h | Next / previous git hunk | | <leader>hs | Stage hunk | | <leader>hb | Git blame | | <C-q> | Close floating terminal |

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