Install and setup

Patched Fonts

Since statusline or file explorer plugins often use Unicode symbols not available in normal font, we need to install a patched font from the nerd-fonts project.

Ripgrep

Ripgrep, aka, rg, is a fast grepping tool available for both Linux, Windows and macOS. It is used by several searching plugins. Install on macOS via homebrew.

brew install ripgrep

Nvim

Install on macOS via homebrew.

brew install neovim

Setting up Nvim

On Linux and macOS, the desination directory for the config is ~/.config/nvim. On Windows, the config directory is $HOME/AppData/Local/nvim[^1]. First, we need to remove all the files under the config directory (including dot files), then go to this directory, and run the following command:

git clone --depth=1 git@github.com:maeertin/nvim-config.git .

After that, when we first open nvim, run command :PackerSync to install all the plugins. Use :Mason to install LSP related plugins like linters and formatters.