Vim-gq

2024-08-05T12:22:00Z

Vim has a handy feature to format text with gq. You can use it in visual mode, give it a motion, or if you give it gqq it will format the current line. I use this quite often while writing in markdown, I do not use softwraps in vim, so gqq quickly formats my current line into a paragraph. Once I have done this for a single line one time I typically switch to the motion for around paragraph gqap to format the whole paragraph and not just the current line.

before formatting #

after formattting #

Setup a yaml schema | yamlls for a silky smooth setup

2021-12-03T23:24:52Z

I’ve gone far too long without a good setup for editing yaml files, I am missing out on autocomplete and proper diagnostics. This ends today as I setup yaml-language-server in neovim.

https://youtu.be/xo4HrFoKF4c

The video for this one is part of a challenge-playlist I put out for myself to constantly improve my dotfiles for all of December.

init.vim #

I have my init.vim setup to only source other modules, if you want everything in a single config, feel free to do as you wish. I broke mine up earlier this year as I doubled into nvim and am not going back.

source ~/.config/nvim/plugins.vim
lua require'waylonwalker.cmp'
lua require'waylonwalker.lsp-config'

Plugin setup #

You will need the following plugins. I use plug, if you don’t you will have to convert the syntax over to the plugin manager you use.

neovim/nvim-lspconfig is for configuring the lsp. It comes with a bunch of sane defaults for most servers, so you pretty much just have to call setup on that server unless you want to change the defaults.

hrsh7th/nvim-cmp is what I use for autocomplete. If you are using something else you might need to set that up in a different way in order to get the autocomplete to work. You will still get the diagnostics with just lsp-config.

kabouzeid/nvim-lspinstall will aide in installing lsp’s if you want. I have chosen not to because I want to have my full setup scripted so when I setup any new machine I just run my ansible-playbook. This library is nice to just set things up quick and play with them.

" /home/u_walkews/.config/nvim/plugins.vim
Plug 'neovim/nvim-lspconfig'

" if you want to use nvim-cmp
Plug 'hrsh7th/nvim-cmp'
Plug 'hrsh7th/cmp-nvim-lsp'

" if you want to use lsp-install
Plug 'kabouzeid/nvim-lspinstall'

cmp config #

Make sure that you have nvim_lsp as a source in your cmp config. This is my config as of now, its likely to change in the future, set yours up how you like. hrsh7th has a really good readme if you want help configuring cmp.

Again if you don’t use cmp you can skip this step, cmp is for autocomplete. You can use a different plugin for autocomplete, or not use a plugin at all if that’s your thing.

--  ~/.config/nvim/lua/waylonwalker/lsp-config.lua
-- Setup nvim-cmp.
local cmp = require'cmp'

cmp.setup({
snippet = {
    expand = function(args)
    -- For `vsnip` user.
    vim.fn["vsnip#anonymous"](args.body)

    -- For `luasnip` user.
    -- require('luasnip').lsp_expand(args.body)

    -- For `ultisnips` user.
    -- vim.fn["UltiSnips#Anon"](args.body)
    end,
},
mapping = {
  ['<C-n>'] = cmp.mapping.select_next_item({ behavior = cmp.SelectBehavior.Insert }),
  ['<C-p>'] = cmp.mapping.select_prev_item({ behavior = cmp.SelectBehavior.Insert }),
  ['<Down>'] = cmp.mapping.select_next_item({ behavior = cmp.SelectBehavior.Select }),
  ['<Up>'] = cmp.mapping.select_prev_item({ behavior = cmp.SelectBehavior.Select }),
  ['<C-d>'] = cmp.mapping.scroll_docs(-4),
  ['<C-f>'] = cmp.mapping.scroll_docs(4),
  ['<C-Space>'] = cmp.mapping.complete(),
  ['<C-e>'] = cmp.mapping.close(),
  ['<CR>'] = cmp.mapping.confirm({
    behavior = cmp.ConfirmBehavior.Replace,
    select = true,
    })
},
sources = {
    { name = 'nvim_lsp' },
    { name = 'vsnip' },
    { name = 'path' },
    { name = 'buffer' },
    { name = 'calc' },
    { name = 'tmux' },
}
})

lsp config #

Next up is the heart of this post, the lsp-config.lua. This one is pretty straight forward, require lspconfig (which you need the plugin for), then set it up with cmp and the extra schemas. I’m sure there are yaml schemas for tons of things, I’ll probably add more in the future, but for now, this is what I have.

--  ~/.config/nvim/lua/waylonwalker/lsp-config.lua
require'lspconfig'.yamlls.setup{
    on_attach=on_attach,
    capabilities = require('cmp_nvim_lsp').update_capabilities(vim.lsp.protocol.make_client_capabilities()),
    settings = {
        yaml = {
            schemas = {
                ["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kedro-org/kedro/develop/static/jsonschema/kedro-catalog-0.17.json"]= "conf/**/*catalog*",
                ["https://json.schemastore.org/github-workflow.json"] = "/.github/workflows/*"
            }
        }
    }
}

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Also Check out My python lsp setup #

https://waylonwalker.com/setup-pylsp/

How linux users install a text editor

2021-11-30T23:18:24Z

In honor of the neovim 0.6.0 release, I decided to do a funny skit installing neovim, and fix up my install script in the process as part of my challenge to fix up my dotfiles. I ran into one snag where I was not updating the repo that I cloned. I moved it to the directory I now keep third-party git repos and set it to update with ansible.

https://youtu.be/64oKLphhBuo

The thing that took me the longest to realize was…. I had a path issue pointing me to an old install of the appimage over the fresh build, fixed that up and now we are on 0.7.0 nightly.

https://neovim.io/ https://github.com/neovim/neovim https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/tag/v0.6.0

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