Unit #0-10

Learning Outcome

At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

• use plugins in Neovim

  • using Lazy.Nvim

Lesson

• plugins can add super useful functionality to nvim

• lazy.nvim, is the current most common plugin manager, so install it

• we will will need to have a "special" directory structure to make all our plugins easier to use

  • nvim/lua/plugins 

• add the following to your init.lua:
  require "user.options"
  require "user.keymaps"
  
  local lazypath = vim.fn.stdpath("data") .. "/lazy/lazy.nvim"
  if not vim.loop.fs_stat(lazypath) then
    vim.fn.system({
      "git",
      "clone",
      "--filter=blob:none",
      "https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim.git",
      "--branch=stable", -- latest stable release
      lazypath,
    })
  end
  vim.opt.rtp:prepend(lazypath)
  
  require("lazy").setup("plugins")

• then in the "plugins" directory, you can add a file for each plugin, for example:

  • lualine.nvim

    • here are all the themes you an choose: https://github.com/nvim-lualine/lualine.nvim/blob/master/THEMES.md