Create or back up ~/.config/nvim. Then clone the repo.

mv ~/.config/nvim ~/.config/old-nvim
git clone git@github.com:qarren/vim-config.git ~/.config/nvim

Install Packer using these quickstart instructions.

Telescope needs rg (aka ripgrep) to search the content of text files.

brew install ripgrep

Install a nerd font https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads (I like Meslo (cmd+f for Menlo).) A few other fonts are commented out, and you can activate them in the init.vim.

Open nvim (ignoring any errors) and run:

:PackerInstall

After this you'll probably want to repopen neovim and verify that there are no longer errors. When you start editing a file in a new language, you'll want to install the TreeSitter stuff for it.

:TSInstall

After a moment, the highlighting of that language should improve.

packer.nvim is a package manager for neovim. Read about it here.

While in a git repo, type , + p to begin a fuzzy search on its filenames. Hit return to open the file in the current buffer or a new tab. More on Telescope and its mappings here.

NeoVim has built-in support for the Language Server Protocol. nvim-lsp-config takes care of setting up and managing the configurations required to communicate with different servers. To add or remove a server config, open lua/kickstart.lua and edit the servers list. Note that things like eslint and prettier do not conform to the LSP and require support through something like null-ls. Read more about it here.

NeoVim has experimental tree sitter support. This allows navigation of code based on functional groupings (and a lot more). I haven't gone very deep here, but something like [m will move your cursor to start of the next function. Read more about it here.

Hit \\ to view the current directory. Open/close a directory with return, enter a directory with ., and move up one directory with U. :help is useful.