Neovim Setting basic options

General Options

To include some basics in your config first create a directory called user and a file called options.lua

mkdir -p ~/.config/nvim/lua/user/ touch ~/.config/nvim/lua/user/options.lua touch ~/.config/nvim/init.lua

Here is every general option I use with a brief explanation:

local options = { backup = false, -- creates a backup file clipboard = "unnamedplus", -- allows neovim to access the system clipboard cmdheight = 2, -- more space in the neovim command line for displaying messages completeopt = { "menuone", "noselect" }, -- mostly just for cmp conceallevel = 0, -- so that `` is visible in markdown files fileencoding = "utf-8", -- the encoding written to a file hidden = true, -- required to keep multiple buffers and open multiple buffers hlsearch = true, -- highlight all matches on previous search pattern ignorecase = true, -- ignore case in search patterns mouse = "a", -- allow the mouse to be used in neovim pumheight = 10, -- pop up menu height showmode = false, -- we don't need to see things like -- INSERT -- anymore showtabline = 2, -- always show tabs smartcase = true, -- smart case smartindent = true, -- make indenting smarter again splitbelow = true, -- force all horizontal splits to go below current window splitright = true, -- force all vertical splits to go to the right of current window swapfile = false, -- creates a swapfile termguicolors = true, -- set term gui colors (most terminals support this) timeoutlen = 100, -- time to wait for a mapped sequence to complete (in milliseconds) undofile = true, -- enable persistent undo updatetime = 300, -- faster completion (4000ms default) writebackup = false, -- if a file is being edited by another program (or was written to file while editing with another program), it is not allowed to be edited expandtab = true, -- convert tabs to spaces shiftwidth = 2, -- the number of spaces inserted for each indentation tabstop = 2, -- insert 2 spaces for a tab cursorline = true, -- highlight the current line number = true, -- set numbered lines relativenumber = false, -- set relative numbered lines numberwidth = 4, -- set number column width to 2 {default 4} signcolumn = "yes", -- always show the sign column, otherwise it would shift the text each time wrap = false, -- display lines as one long line scrolloff = 8, -- is one of my fav sidescrolloff = 8, guifont = "monospace:h17", -- the font used in graphical neovim applications } vim.opt.shortmess:append "c" for k, v in pairs(options) do vim.opt[k] = v end vim.cmd "set whichwrap+=<,>,[,],h,l"

Require in init.lua

require("user.options")