ThotVim

No configs, no feelings, just speed.

❯ nvim --version
NVIM v0.10.4
Build type: RelWithDebInfo
LuaJIT 2.1.1736781742
Run "nvim -V1 -v" for more info

❯ nvim --startuptime startup.log -c exit && tail -5 startup.log
069.360  000.083  000.083: sourcing /home/akuma/.local/share/nvim/lazy/vim-peekaboo/autoload/peekaboo.vim  
069.400  000.155: BufEnter autocommands  
069.401  000.002: editing files in windows  
069.420  000.019: --- NVIM STARTED ---  

Motivation

ThotVim: The Divine and Questionable Journey

Thot—Egyptian god of wisdom and knowledge—is the perfect namesake for this setup. Why? Because the sheer amount of research, trial, and tribulation it took to create this quick and dirty Neovim configuration rivals the construction of the pyramids. 🏗️Though, they had great "alien" tech, I on the other hand had only my old dusty laptop.

For five long years, I stuck to my trusty init.vim, a simple yet effective setup that never betrayed me. Then, one fateful day, I thought:
"What if I modernize it? What if I optimize it? What if... I actually try?"

And thus began my downward spiral into Lua, plugins, and broken configs. Countless hours, hundreds of Stack Overflow visits, and at least three existential crises later, I present to you: ThotVim—a lightweight, no-strings-attached Neovim configuration that launches faster than your last relationship ended. 💔🔥

It’s basic, it’s fast, and it’s probably all you’ll ever need—until you get tempted by another Vim plugin and start the cycle all over again. 🚀

How is it Different?

1. It doesn't tries to do Everything
2. It's not a distro, not an operating system. Plain, simple and sane Code Editor.
3. It works with less efforts and more efficiency.

Requirements

External Requirements:

• Basic utils: git, make, unzip, C Compiler (gcc)
• ripgrep
• Clipboard tool (xclip/xsel/win32yank or other depending on the platform)
• A Nerd Font: optional, provides various icons
  • if you have it set vim.g.have_nerd_font in init.lua to true
• Emoji fonts (Ubuntu only, and only if you want emoji!) sudo apt install fonts-noto-color-emoji
• Language Setup:
  • If you want to write Typescript, you need npm
  • If you want to write Golang, you will need go
  • etc.

Installation

1. Simply clone the repo in ~/.config/nvim and Start Neovim the minimum required version is 0.8+, However, Best Experience is available on 0.10+ (As its tested by me.)

2. If you simply want to try it out:

       git clone https://github.com/Aeres-u99/ThotVim.git ~/.config/testsetup
       # This should start neovim and fetch all of the required plugins
       NVIM_APPNAME=testsetup nvim
       # Cleanup
       ls -altrh ~/.local/share/testsetup
       rm -rf ~/.local/share/testsetup

   Features 🔥

• 🛰 Aerial for code navigation, 🏷 Bufferline for a sleek top bar.
• 🤖 Coding Assistance, 🌈 Rainbow Delimiters, ✨ Auto Pairing & Indentation.
• 🎨 Colorizer for color previews, ⚡ nvim-cmp for completions, ✂️ LuaSnip for snippets.
• 🖼 Dashboard for aesthetics, 🔍 gitblame for knowing who messed up your code.
• 🔦 highlight for keyword highlighting in logs.
• 📝 Markdown & Markview for extra markdown powers.
• 📊 Lualine for vital information at a glance.
• 📦 Mason for managing completion engines & language servers.
• 🗺 Minimap, 🌳 Nvim Tree for sane navigation.
• 🔭 Telescope, 🖥 Terminal, and 🌲 Treesitter for better coding experience.
• 🛠 Quality of Life plugins, 📌 vim-mark, sane defaults, and much more! 🚀

Pull Requests and Support

Please feel free to raise PR

• The setup needs to be fast.

• New comers are welcome

  • ToDo: Create a list of beginner friendly PR

• Feel free to fork and hack upon it!

Note

Please ensure that the speed is under 100ms. We do not want this to be another bloated all in one neovim configuration

Screenshots

Startup Page

Code Editing

Code Navigation

Themes Demonstration

Gruvbox

Catpuccin

TokyoNight

My Personal Favourite is ayu_night dark with transparency + blur.

Credits

• https://github.com/neilsabde/nfs

• GitHub - nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim: A launch point for your personal nvim configuration

ToDo

1. Zen Mode

2. Highlight only the segment I am editing and blur out the rest of code base

3. Mini Buffer + Function Preview

4. Better REPL Support

5. Find a Magical Potion – Ideally one that instantly fixes all my bugs and writes perfect code for me. Or at least something that makes debugging less soul-crushing. 🍷✨