2022 May

2022-05-10 - Tuesday

Made vim to be provided by neovim
```
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/vim vim /home/vvnraman/bin/nvim 100
```
Also set $EDITOR to vim in .bashrc-custom so that git uses it. vi is still provided vim.gtk.

Installed gitui

mkdir ~/cli-tools/downloads/gitui && cd ~/cli-tools/downloads/gitui
mkdir v0.20.1 && cd v0.20.1
curl --fail --location --remote-name \
   https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui/releases/download/v0.20.1/gitui-linux-musl.tar.gz
tar --extract --file gitui-linux-musl.tar.gz
ln -s $(readlink -f ./gitui) ~/bin/

Installed nnn

mkdir ~/cli-tools/downloads/nnn/v4.5/
cd ~/cli-tools/downloads/nnn/v4.5/
curl --fail --location --remote-name \
   https://github.com/jarun/nnn/releases/download/v4.5/nnn-nerd-static-4.5.x86_64.tar.gz
tar --extract --file nnn-nerd-static-4.5.x86_64.tar.gz
ln -s $(readlink -f ./nnn-nerd-static) ~/bin/n

2022-05-09 - Monday

Refactored standalong neovim configuration in lua to be more modular.

Next step is to subsume it in the dotfiles repo managed by chezmoi. I’ll most likely keep this repo alive as well.

Installed a few more command line tools for null-ls.

pipx install black
pipx install isort
pipx install flake8

There are a couple of command line tools left to be installed.

2022-05-01 - Sunday

I had setup fnm already from https://github.com/Schniz/fnm. This is a node version manager written in Rust.
```
readlink -f $(which fnm)
# /home/vvnraman/cli-tools/downloads/fnm/fnm-v1.31.0/fnm
```
Installed the latest node using it
```
$ fnm install --lts
# Installed Node v16.15.0
```
We need node for a few language servers which will install using nvim-lsp-installer
Installed mermaid cli, this is just for having mermaid diagrams in sphinx (which we are using for these docs), not related to neovim
```
npm install -g mermaid.cli
```

Installed stylua for formatting lua codebase (neovim config)

curl --fail --location --remote-name https://github.com/JohnnyMorganz/StyLua/releases/download/v0.13.1/stylua-linux.zip
unzip stylua-linux.zip
chmod +x stylua
ln -s $(readlink -f stylua) ~/bin/stylua

2022-04-16 - Saturday

Setting up neovim with my dotfiles

For true colour support
- Removed the following from my .bashrc
```
export TERM="xterm-256color"
```
  This is not required as Windows Terminal already supports true colour by emulating the xterm-256color sequences.
- Added the following in .tmux.conf
```
set-option -sa terminal-overrides ',xterm-256color:RGB'
```
  There was already the following line in there
```
set-option -g default-terminal "screen-256color"
```
  This tells tmux that the terminal outside it supports true colour. This is important as this sets the right term variable for programs running within tmux, notably our neovim instance.
- Tell neovim that we do have true colour support
```
vim.opt.termguicolors = true
```
- Kill tmux server and restart for the changes to take effect.